Designer

Interior Architects; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Interior Architects seeks a Designer for our NY studio to support design development, presentation and contract document work. The Designer will assist in creating concepts, developing drawings, and coordinating with project teams under supervision of a Senior Designer or Project Manager.

Qualified candidates have 6+ years in workplace design, including building repositioning and corporate interiors, with strong skills in space planning, detailing, and design packages.

Qualifications

• Advanced presentation skills
• Advanced knowledge of space planning
• Extensive knowledge of furnishings and finishes
• Extensive with the concepts of furniture layout
• Advanced sketching and rendering skills
• Advanced architecture detailing skills
• Extensive knowledge of CDs and procedures
• Extensive knowledge of building systems, codes and ADA requirements
• Working knowledge of path of travel requirements
• Working knowledge of contract administration
• Intermediate MS Office Suite skills
• Advanced Revit skills
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills

Responsibilities

• Works with team to develop design ideas and create both presentation and construction drawings
• Drafts technical drawings
• Provides review of engineering and landscape drawings to ensure they comply with design solution.
• Ensures integration into overall design
• Preliminary concept plans for larger projects
• May develop and finalize conceptual designfor smaller projects
• Oversees Intermediate Designer to review space plans and tackles more complicated issues
• Provides detail for interior and architectural design projects
• Develops and delivers overall design and furniture packages for both interior and exterior
• Assists in developing packages for larger projects
• Obtains cost estimates and produces final cost estimates
• Manages design budget for assigned projects
• May mentor the work of Junior andIntermediate Designers

Skills

Presentation skills

Space planning

Furnishings knowledge

Furniture layout

Sketching & rendering

Architecture detailing

CDs & procedures

Building codes & ADA

Path of travel

Contract administration

MS Office

Revit

Adobe Creative Suite

Education

Architecture or design degree

Job description

Interior Architects translates client goals, brand and culture into powerful environments built around people, processes, technologies and business drivers. Our clients in diverse markets worldwide require high-performance, visually compelling and sustainable environments to move their enterprise forward, support their culture, engage their staff, integrate technology and drive efficiencies. As architects, designers, workplace strategists and environmental specialists in the largest global architecture firm concentrating exclusively on interiors, we help clients articulate and align their business strategies and core values with the dynamic use of space.

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 Designer for our NY studio.The Designer, working under general supervision of a Senior Designer or Project Manager, provides design support primarily in project administration, presentations, concept design through design development, and contract documents.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Works with team to develop design ideas and create both presentation and construction drawings
• Drafts technical drawings
• Provides review of engineering and landscape drawings to ensure they comply with design solution.
• Ensures integration into overall design
• Preliminary concept plans for larger projects
• May develop and finalize conceptual designfor smaller projects
• Oversees Intermediate Designer to review space plans and tackles more complicated issues
• Provides detail for interior and architectural design projects
• Develops and delivers overall design and furniture packages for both interior and exterior
• Assists in developing packages for larger projects
• Obtains cost estimates and produces final cost estimates
• Manages design budget for assigned projects
• May mentor the work of Junior andIntermediate Designers

Qualifications:

• Graduate of architecture or design school: equivalent experience may be substituted
• 6+ years’ experience in workplace design, focusing on building repositioning and adaptive re-use projects as well as corporate interior

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Advance presentation skills
• Advanced knowledge of space planning
• Extensive knowledge of furnishings and finishes
• Extensive with the concepts of furniture layout
• Advanced sketching and rendering skills
• Advancedarchitecture detailing skills
• Extensive knowledge of CDs and procedures
• Extensive knowledge of building systems, codes and ADA requirements
• Working knowledge of path of travel requirements
• Working knowledge of contract administration
• Intermediate MS Office Suite skills
• Advanced Revit skills
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills

Salary Ranger: 75,000 - 90,000, based on educational background, education and industry experience.