Designer

Description

Accountabilities:

• Design Development
• Furniture & Finish Selection
• Specifications
• Technical & Conceptual Drawings
• Customer Experience

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Conducts a furniture needs analysis to define requirements for implementing designs.
• Develop innovative and effective solutions that add value and enhance product application techniques to design solutions.
• Prepare and run design meetings with industry partners and end users.
• Generate custom products/specials, COM testing, shop, and submittal drawings.
• Create final furniture specifications (specs) and pricing.
• Prepare information for labor quotes.
• Create installation drawing packages.
• Coordinates with AV, plumbing, data, and electrical vendors to ensure seamless integration with furniture layouts.
• Prepares for and conducts site visits and field verifications to ensure accurate on-site assessments.
• Ensures accuracy by performing thorough spec checks and cross-verifying work with team members to maintain high-quality standards.
• Maintains organized and up-to-date email communications, file structures, and drawings, ensuring easy access and efficient retrieval of information.
• Conveys ideas effectively through well-crafted detailed drawings, and comprehensive spec books, presenting them in a thoughtful manner.
• Mentors and supports other designers, providing guidance and fostering their professional growth and development.
• Demonstrates initiative in self-guided learning to continuously enhance product and industry knowledge.
• Maintains client design standards programs, ensuring consistency and quality across all projects.
• Balance workload capacity, considering project complexity and size to ensure successful outcomes.
• Embrace cross-training on vertical markets, expanding expertise and versatility.

Requirements

  What You Should Have:

• 3+ years of industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in interior design or equivalent
• Requires local travel to job sites for on-site assessments and in-person customer meetings
• Strong knowledge of interior commercial construction, architecture, design, real estate, and contract furnishings.
• In-depth product knowledge and application, including experience with Herman Miller and Knoll products.
• Experience presenting to clients, preferably alongside salespeople.
• Furniture dealership experience preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
• Skilled in translating design concepts into accurate drawings and specifications.
• Capable of assessing architectural field conditions and understanding building system interfaces with furniture.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects efficiently.
• Proficient in AutoCAD, CET, CAP, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office Suite, and commercial furniture industry software; willingness to learn new systems.
• Maintain relevant industry certifications.
• Build and nurture relationships with vendors and industry partners.
• Confident and independent in progressing through the design process with minimal guidance.

Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop. The employee may occasionally lift and /or move up to 20 pounds. This position may require travel between offices, jobsites, and/or client locations, which may involve extended periods of sitting or standing, lifting light luggage, and adapting to different time zones.

Notice: The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their manager.

Notice: This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter this job description at any time without notice.

Continua is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Continua is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or marital status.