Senior Interior Designer - Interior Design / Fit Out

Job description / Role

Duties and Responsibilities:

As the Senior interior designer you will be responsible for managing the design functions on projects as assigned including liaising with the clients and other departments.

Meet with Client to determine Requirements & Needs.
Design & Create solutions (Sketches, Plans & Specifications).
Develop presentations which may include drawings, sketches, renderings, perspectives, color and material boards, photographs or models.
Prepare working drawings and specifications for implementing the design (including materials, finishes, joinery work and furnishings.
Consider materials, effects and costs, liaise with suppliers, arrange samples and prepare specifications.
Collaborate with professional and technical consultants
(mechanical, electrical and structural engineers, architects, audio-visual consultants).
Report timescales & progress to the manager related to design finalization.
Discuss price quotations for designs using standard pricing schemes and including options for using different materials with projects department.
* Manage a team of designers & draftsman for the technical details and guide them on all design matters.
* Preparing the scope of work and timeline for team and drawings and conceptual details.
* Nominate suppliers and contractors according to the design and materials selected by the client.
Provide a weekly report to the Director of Operations for the projects assigned
and design issues and changes.
Attend coordination meetings with regards to all design matters.
Do coordination meetings with other consultants.
Check drawing packages before issuance to owners and site.
Following up preparing the material list, sample boards.
Anticipating design work to be produced, time frames and resources needed as realistic programs.
* Follow up preparing of working construction shop drawings and coordinate with the structural - MEP drawings.
* Follow up and Coordinate between factory and project Manager. Engineer, subcontractor and the client representative at all the steps of the project from initiation step till handing over including monitoring and following up any expected variations to insure that the design had been followed by all parties.

Requirements

This position requires creativity & artistic talent, good organizational, time management and communications skills and a committed individual who is able to translate their design experience and ideas in response to the challenges of this large-scale development.

Candidates must have a Bachelors Degree in Interior Design or Architect.
A valid UAE Drivers License.
Minimum 5 years experience required.
Should have managerial skills to manage the design department.
Should be a team player.
Should be an effective leader.
Should have knowledge of AutoCAD, 3D max and V Ray software.
Candidate should be experienced in designing commercial Offices, restaurants & retail outlets.

About the Company

SSA Ltd. (Sommerman Skinner Associates) find out the detail to allow you to make qualified judgments about your career and its progression. On the companies that we represent (over 2000 spread across a diverse spectrum of industry) we will be able to inform you of contracts pending, awarded, company growth, opportunity, relative reward and internal prospects. We believe that through spending time and effort front end through interviewing or individual dedication we can offer real advice that will be valued. Our founder is degree qualified with extensive exposure to industry and with a career also behind him in Recruitment Management. Our team is made up of qualified construction professionals. We specialise in both permanent and freelance opportunities to qualified construction professionals.

Disciplines covered include:

Site Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers, Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Managers, Planners, Safety, Purchasers, Estimators and Design Executive.