Project Designer

Job description / Role

Our client are a luxury design and interior design company and are currently on the look out for a Project Designer

Serves as either architectural and or/ FFE team member under the direction of the Design Director and Project Manager

- Knowledge of local material resources preferred
- Participate in the construction administration of projects and review of submittals and finish samples
- Proven experience in FF&E design development and documentation.
- Outstanding graphic presentation skills
- Works with Design Director and client to develop schematic FF&E design based on project criteria, program and budget
- Participates in presentation and ensures format is compatible with office and client standards
- Develops and maintain FF&E budget
- Serves as principal contact with purchasing agent
- Review sample, strike-offs, etc. for compliance with specifications and design intent
- Directs and reviews furniture plans for content and accuracy and insures that they fully coordinated with architectural, electrical, RCP and lighting plans and other consultants' drawings
- Coordinates presentation of artwork
- Coordinates FF&E installation with all parties involved
- Produce and coordinate finish schedule
- Direct education of Associate Designer staff and Interns in office standards and policy
- Make task assignments to Assistant Designers
- Responsible for revising specifications
- Develops schematic design from established project program and client needs
- Translates schematic design into design development drawings for use by production staff
- Participates in presentations as needed
- Assists in coordination of interior architectural documents with work of consultants and architects
- Prepares interior architectural specifications

Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree (four year college or technical school)
- 5 plus years of experience in Architecture or Design
- Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
- Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
- Attitude - Is a cooperative member of the team. Possesses a positive, helpful attitude. Does the employee respond to emergency request for assistance?
- Communication - Able to convey info, written and oral in a clear and concise manner. Does employee use active listening skills with an interest to understand others
- Initiative - Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
- Interpersonal - Ability to get along well with a variety of personalities and individuals.
- Judgment - The ability to formulate a sound decision using the available information.
- Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.

About the Company

AXIZ Consulting is based in the Dubai International Finance Centre and offers a bespoke, highly consultative recruitment service to local and international organisations across the GCC in both professional services and primary industries. Its founding two members come from a blend of executive search and contingent recruitment and they have taken some of the best practices of executive search and applied this to contingent recruitment in order to produce a service which offers maximum value to clients.

In order for us to build a successful company, we identified a core aim: to offer our clients a service that surpasses that of our competition. In order to do this, we have put into place both internal and external processes that ensure clients receive a consistent and professional service which gets the right results, in the right way.