Middle Weight Designer
A fantastic opportunity is available for an experienced Middle Weight Interior Designer to join an exciting and progressive business. They are an established and growing design, build and reactive maintenance company specialising in the hospitality and leisure sectors, and they need someone to work as part of their award-winning Design department at their head office in Doncaster.
The ideal candidate will be passionate, creative and comfortable working on a variety of projects either alone or as part of a team. Our client has a wide range of clients including some large and well-known names but they also have small independent customers so they can offer the chance to work on a broad spectrum of projects. They offer lots of options for training and development and as such this is a fabulous opportunity for an experienced Designer who wants to continue to develop and evolve in their field. They are known for their innovative, professional and seamless service and the ideal candidate will share their commitment to delivering their client's vision. As they work nationally, and occasionally internationally, some travel and overnight stays will be required.
The day-to-day duties will include but are not limited to:
- Attending and leading project briefing meetings with new and existing clients.
- Working to a written or verbal brief, which details how each individual space will be used.
- Preparation of concepts, mood boards, preliminary and final designs, and development of detailed design pack.
- Professional presentation of proposals to clients.
- Ability to advise clients on all technical aspects of a design project.
- Produce drawing packs including details using AutoCAD (or similar).
- Produce presentations and visuals using InDesign.
- Produce FF & E schedules and manage procurement of products.
- Managing projects efficiently, within schedule and within budget in close co-operation with project team to help deliver projects on time.
- Site visits to attend meetings or carry out surveys.
- Developing detailed designs and choosing materials and products with commercial suitability for projects.
- Proven experience in dealing with clients, contractors and other suppliers in a highly professional manner.
- Excellent communication skills including verbal, written and visual.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
Required skills, experience & qualifications:
- AutoCAD
- Interior Design Degree or similar or able to demonstrate suitable experience
- A minimum of 3 years' interior design experience
- Full UK Driving license
- Ability to use Photoshop and InDesign (Desirable)
Overview:
As a Middle Weight Designer, you will be proactive, self-motivated and use your initiative whether working alone or as part of a team. You will need to manage your workload effectively and have the ability to prioritise your workload. You will have proven experience in delivering commercial projects from initial concept to completion and producing a detailed design and FF & E Pack from which the project can be costed and built.
Package and perks:
This role is based at our client's recently refurbished Doncaster office with excellent staff facilities, free parking, free tea and coffee, fruit and snacks etc. Their Culture programme also offers many great perks including social events, feast Friday, all expenses paid social events, Westfield Health membership, all-inclusive team days out, birthday treats and much more. This position benefits from 20 days annual leave, with additional days awarded for long service, plus bank holidays and receives paid leave while the business is closed over the festive period.
This a permanent contract working 37.5 hours, and their core hours are 8.30am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. The salary for this position is up to £35,000 per annum dependant on experience and they also offer a company pension scheme and holiday buy back scheme. They offer many opportunities for training, growth and development, including design focused away days, and work closely with their teams to help them achieve their goals. This can be a hybrid role with some working from home as workloads and dairies allow.
Please note they can only accept UK based applications. Unfortunately, they are unable to sponsor right to work visas.
As this position does require regular site and office visits, they will not be able to consider any applications for 100% remote working.