Senior Interior Designer

Harrison; Sutton Coldfield; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading design firm in Sutton Coldfield is seeking a Senior Interior Designer with hospitality design experience. You will support the Design Director on various projects, create detailed design packages, and ensure client needs are met. Ideal candidates are highly creative, have a strong portfolio, and are proficient in design software. Join a dynamic team dedicated to excellence and innovation in design.

Qualifications

• Highly creative and enthusiastic team player.
• Proven portfolio of hospitality projects.
• Good understanding of current trends in interior design.
• Strong technical drawing capabilities and proficiency in design software.

Responsibilities

• Support Design Director across multiple projects.
• Create full design packages for Tender.
• Produce FF&E material and lighting proposals.
• Attend project planning and site meetings.

Skills

Creativity

Client communication

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Adobe InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

Presentation skills

Education

BA (Hons) or MA in Interior Architecture

Job description

Help us take hospitality and leisure experiences to the next level.

Hospitality, F&B and leisure design experts, Harrison (www.weareharrison.com), are evolving into a true 360º experience provider. Our journey has already started – working on several exciting new concepts for clients. This is an opportunity for senior interior designers passionate about bars, restaurants and hotels and hungry to build a career in an innovative and super-creative sector, to start honing their skills.

Harrison is a warm, inclusive working environment with a family feel – coupled with an international outlook and global clients. Our expanding design studios are based in Sutton Coldfield, Dallas and Melbourne.

We are looking to grow our UK team by employing a Senior Interior Designer with Hospitality Design experience to join our growing Birmingham team.

• Are you self-motivated, creative and talented?
• Can you think outside the box?
• Do you have great inter-personal skills?
• Are you client orientated?
• Do you want to be part of a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial business that prides itself on building client relationships and design excellence?

Areas of Responsibility will include:

• Supporting the Design Director and Creative Director working across multiple international and UK based projects
• Working across all design development project stages
• Exploring creative concepts, making suggestions at appropriate stages in the project
• Producing full detailed design packages as a team that are required to form a Tender package
• Producing FF&E material, furniture and lighting proposals including specification and coordination
• Space planning, lighting design principles, Front of House and Back of House provisions and means of escape
• Project drawings and the associated cross-referencing
• Preparation of mood board, design presentation boards
• Involvement in the understanding of client’s budgets and breakdown
• Attending project planning meetings and site meetings
• Implementing planning and other legal requirements such as Health & Safety regulations

Requirements:

• Highly creative
• BA (Hons) or MA Interior Architecture high qualification (or equivalent)
• Must have a proven portfolio of hospitality projects
• A creative and technical skillset
• You will require a good understanding of current trends in the interior design industry
• Must have a comprehensive understanding of different materials and their suitability for different applications
• A fantastic eye for design and be an enthusiastic team player
• Ability to produce detailed technical drawings and to use AutoCAD, SketchUp Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop are essential for this role
• Hand sketching also an advantage
• Excellent presentation, conceptual and visualising skills
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment to tight deadlines
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Strong and confident client communication skills

If you are ambitious, talented and looking for future growth opportunities, competitive salary please send your cv and recent portfolio to Kevin Grima, Executive Director.

Working with an international brand where different cultural sensibilities are at play can be a real challenge. The whole Marugame team were incredibly impressed with the level of strategic depth that the Harrison team covered – which meant not only did they truly understood how best to bring the brand to life in Europe – but did so whilst staying true the company’s foundations and taking the founding stakeholders on the journey with them.''