Technical Designer

Description

• Provide review of engineering and landscape drawings to ensure they comply with design solution.
• Develops and delivers overall design and furniture packages
• Coordinates consultant drawings and develops architectural details to ensure alignment with design solution.
• Works with team to develop design ideas and create both presentation and construction drawings
• With Senior Designer, researches and selects fixtures and finishes to use for projects
• For smaller projects may oversee all design and documentation, with support from senior leadership.
• Conducts field surveys
• May mentor the work of Junior and Intermediate Designers
• Ensures adherence to set budget and immediately informs Senior Designer, PM and/or client of any potential variances to the budget
• Conducts client interviews to determine space needs and requirements
• Oversee tasks and provide feedback on work product
• Works with team to develop and execute design concepts for interior and exterior repositioning and/ or adaptive reuse projects

Requirements

Our team members are collaborative, creative, professional, expert and entrepreneurial. Joining our team requires skill, daring, leadership, teaming, humor and a love of Design. We are presently searching for a Technical Designer for our Austin studio. The Technical Designer, working under general supervision of a Design Director, Senior Designer or Project Manager, provides design and technical leadership and support in concept design through design development, contract documents, and construction documentation.

• Advanced presentation skills
• 6+ years’ experience in workplace design, focusing on corporate interiors and building repositioning and adaptive re-use projects as well as corporate interiors
• Working knowledge of contract administration
• Working knowledge of path of travel requirements
• Advanced sketching and rendering skills
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills
• Extensive knowledge of design principles, and workplace trends
• Graduate of architecture or design school: equivalent experience may be substituted
• Extensive knowledge of building systems, codes and ADA requirements
• Extensive experience leading the development of project contract documents
• Intermediate MS Office Suite and Miro skills
• Advanced Revit skills
• Advanced architecture detailing skills
• Advanced knowledge of space planning
• Extensive knowledge of furnishings and finishes

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance