UK Playspace Designer

HAGS UK; Selby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

HAGS UK is seeking a Playspace Designer to create engaging designs for playgrounds and fitness projects. The role involves using design software, collaborating with sales teams, and delivering high-quality outputs while meeting client expectations. A competitive salary and benefits are offered, emphasising creativity and communication skills.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Full benefits package

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of AutoCad, 3DS Max and Adobe Suite required.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Experience with Corona Renderer preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Create design schemes for playground, sport, and fitness projects.
• Collate and form priced quotations alongside design outputs.
• Manage workload to meet project timelines and quality standards.

Skills

AutoCad

3DS Max

Adobe Suite

Creativity

Communication

Job description

HAGS design and manufacture a wide range of high-quality playground equipment, park & urban furniture, and outdoor sports & fitness equipment. As a UK market leader, we have a reputation for safety, reliability, sustainability, innovation, and outstanding customer service.

As the Playspace Designer, your role will be to design, cost and visualise play, sport and fitness projects to help deliver our customers’ expectations through visualisation with an end goal of creating fun, engaging and inspiring spaces for children across the country, creating memories and experiences that will last a lifetime. You will do this by utilising your existing skills in Autodesk suite, and the Adobe creative suite. Producing work of outstanding quality and within allotted, scheduled time you will play a key role in supporting the attainment of the UK’s sales objectives.

Working closely with our in-field Sales team, and Sales Coordination function you will take clients requests, using information gathered by the sales team and understanding of the project requirements to apply your skills and creativity to this critical function within sales cycle.

HAGS use the latest hardware including the most recent 3XS high performance desktop PC’s and HP Z-Book Laptops alongside the latest versions of Autodesk software and Adobe Creative Cloud. We continually update our rendering software and are continually seeking out new and upcoming innovations to further improve the quality of our output.

What we offer

• Competitive Salary
• Plus, a full benefits package
• full and part time considered

What you’ll do as our Playspace Designer:

• Create play, sport and fitness concept design schemes through to fully developed, detailed presentation material in line with specific project briefs and budgets.
• Associated collation and formation of priced quotations to sit alongside designed output, harnessing our business specific quote system.
• Considering the requirements of all major stakeholders in this process both internally and externally to deliver creative solutions, which meet the needs of our customers and positively promotes our products and services. Harnessing the design function as an effective sales tool.
• Work to defined timescales per project and manage your workload alongside stakeholder objectives to deliver the highest quality of output.
• Contribute to idea sharing and design best practice with your peers to enable the design departments continual progression and maintain industry leading standards.
• Liaise with external and third-party providers of product and services where required, to provide designs and associated costed proposals which offer a fully holistic design and build project solution.
• Work within and contribute to a dynamic and creative design team with a focus on maintaining a winning culture.

As a Playspace Designer, you will have:

• Working knowledge and relevant experience of AutoCad, 3DS Max and the Adobe Suite.
• Preferrable working knowledge of Corona Renderer advantageous albeit not essential.
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Having willingness to learn quickly and adapt to change.
• Ability to take on board constructive feedback, and work collaboratively to attain the highest quality of work output.
• Able to follow brand guidelines alongside creative and technical direction.
• Great communicator, able to question and positively challenge the norm, with a view to seeking a ‘win-win’ solution.

HAGS is an equal opportunity employer. We recognise that it takes diversity of thought, culture, background, and perspective to create a truly successful organisation.