Midweight Interior Designer

Hospitality, F&B and leisure global design experts, Harrison, are evolving into a complete 360º experience provider.
This is an opportunity for emerging mid weight 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 Midweight 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.
Minimum of 4 years’ experience working in the hospitality sector.
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