The Designer provides design and consultative services to clients and internal sales staff for commercial furniture interior design. The designer is a valued professional member of the team, bringing knowledge, aesthetics, and creative ideas that improve company results through workstyles, trends, products, and space.
Job Type: Full-time, On-Site, Exempt
Specific responsibilities include:
- Attends client meetings/planning sessions to review project scope and assess programming needs.
- Review documents and analyze building plans/site conditions to assure accurate space requirements.
- Conducts field measurements, existing furniture inventories, and code analysis.
- Conceptualize design solutions and prepare drawings based on information received from the client and sales team.
- Develop/present space plans and furniture typicals that address the programming/needs analysis.
- Responsible for the development and accuracy of project drawings and furniture specifications
- Use CET and Project Matrix to create working drawings, renderings, and accurate specifications.
- Present schematic layouts, preliminary and final design layouts, presentation media, and proposed specification lists, to be provided to the client.
- Select, develop, and present color and finish options including finish presentations and renderings.
- Lead Live Design presentations for clients.
- Required to self-check all project documents (drawings, specs, renderings) prior to submitting for double-check process.
- Responsible for transmitting complete and accurate project documentation to the team for order entry and installation.
- Provide working drawings to third-party contractors as needed (A&D firm, GC, electrician, IT, etc.)
- Request quotes and drawings from ancillary vendors.
- Able to estimate time to complete project scope of work for budgetary purposes and complete weekly timesheet for accurate billing.
- Provide timely and accurate information for clients/vendors.
- Attends weekly team meetings and all required company/department functions and training.
- Demonstrate full knowledge of the application of codes, and electrical and data planning on projects.
- Full knowledge of technology tools required to perform duties (CET, NetSuite) and attend regular training.
Qualifications + Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design or Architecture
- Minimum 2-5 years of commercial design experience
- Intermediate to Advanced AutoCAD/CET proficiency & Project Matrix
- Demonstrated space planning and project management ability.
- Experience with Haworth products preferred.
- Polished communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
