Senior Project Designer

The Senior Project Designer is expected to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction by providing creative solutions and exceptional service to internal and external clients through all phases of projects, and by managing the comprehensive details in an accurate, prompt and professional manner.

They are expected to lead projects and possess an ability to interact with clients, assess their needs, present ideas and solutions in a professional manner and explain and articulate final design solutions so that the client has a complete understanding.

They act as mentor and leader to the junior design/production staff and work closely with dealership sales, order entry and installation groups, as well as customers, to ensure accurate plans and specifications, conformance to client’s requirements, customer satisfaction and high‐quality project implementation.

They communicate with their internal design team and department manager to keep projects on track and help facilitate quick turnaround if deadlines can’t be met with individual project resources.

Specific Responsibilities and Duties:
Design Process
  • Works with production staff in all aspects of project listed below by providing leadership and coordination efforts. Maintains customer interface and conveys accurate project information to production staff and conducts timely review of work, assuring adherence to customer objectives
  • Conducts site reviews/ field measurements and plan‐to‐site adherence checks
  • Conducts client inventories of existing product; produces as‐built drawings/specifications
  • Conducts customer programming and needs assessments and reporting
  • Conducts client planning meetings with live‐design sessions and customer presentations
  • Provides furniture design solutions and presentation package
  • Develops and presents block and space plans; gains customer approvals
  • Develops and presents color/finish materials and selections; gains customer approvals
  • Develops finished working drawings for specification and installation; validates plans against construction, electrical engineering and A&D drawing sets; gains customer approvals
  • Develops product specifications; double‐checks plan to specifications; gets specifications order‐ entry ready using an electronic specification program
  • Manages changes and revisions
  • Conducts field and punch‐list review with project managers and/or installation lead
Departmental Practices
  • Must be a team player and abide by Parron Hall’s core values and beliefs.
  • Strives to accept training opportunities to achieve continuous professional development
  • Estimates design project time; maintains detailed daily time sheets; manages actual time against project estimates
Writes and presents design proposals and contracts
  • Is responsible for invoice/billing management of projects assigned.
  • Maintains detailed and extensive project documentation, including records of all key decisions, phone conversations, approvals and sign‐offs, and project planning meeting notes.
  • Manages adherence to project schedule, internal dealership budget, customer’s project budget, design task completions and quality of design work
  • Communicates regularly to customer and dealership re: design project status
  • Produces client deliverables as needed: plotting, printing, presentation materials, etc.
  • Some out‐of‐town travel may be required
Coordination /Planning
  • Interface: client, contractor and subcontractor trades, client’s A&D firm, electrician, client’s IT group, etc.
  • Coordinates phone, data, and computer network planning interface with electrician, customer’s IT group/personnel and outside cabling vendors
  • Conducts pre‐installation meetings with installation group/leads; collects and transmits installation/project scope of work information to order entry and operations group
  • Ensures complete and accurate transmittal of project planning data to order entry/ management, project management and installation groups
  • Conducts responsible interfaces with: dealership sales, project coordinator, project manager and operations/installation team
Contract Furniture/Design Industry Knowledge
  • Has working knowledge of interior design field and current practices
  • Understands workplace environment issues (ergonomics, technology integration, teaming, alternative officing, etc.)
  • Has a working knowledge of the dealership’s contract furniture lines, including features/benefits, pricing, application and assembly, specification options and nomenclature, etc.
  • Has a working knowledge of applicable building codes, ADA regulations, NEC, etc.
  • Understands contract furniture processes, including order preparation, project management, order management and delivery/installation
  • Maintains fluency in and continuously utilizes the CORE operating system and company hardware and software to include AutoCAD, 2020, CET/Configura as required

Please send your resume, cover letter, and portfolio (if available) to Louis Muraca at lmuraca@parronhall.com




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