Senior Residential Construction Designer

Spain Construction -- Now Sunday Building Co.

Senior Residential Construction Designer

Location: Charlotte, NC. Lower South End office, with flexible remote scheduling where client and team commitments allow. Local travel to job sites, client homes, and showrooms is required.

Salary: $65,000 - $70,000 annually, plus a discretionary performance bonus of $7,500

• Own your own projects end to end. You are the client's key designer.
• Work on complex, structurally interesting projects. Additions, multi-room renovations, and whole-home gut renovations.
• Design for high-end residential clients with a company that genuinely invests in craftsmanship.
• Join a small, senior team with direct access to ownership. You report to the President, not through layers of management.
• Work within a real design process. Budgets are established before design begins, so you are designing to a number rather than discovering the cost at the end.

Spain Construction is a luxury residential remodeling company serving the Charlotte area for more than 30 years. We specialize in high-end additions, multi-room renovations, whole-home transformations, kitchens, bathrooms, and complex residential remodeling.
This fall we're relaunching as Sunday Building Co.

-- a new name and brand for the same team and the same standards.

Our projects are growing into larger and more technically demanding projects involving structural changes, additions, significant floor plan reconfiguration, and full-home renovations. To support that growth, we are hiring an experienced designer of equal caliber to our current Lead Designer who can independently carry a full share of the company's design workload.

We are a small, experienced team known for quality craftsmanship, honest communication, and treating our clients and each other well. Our values are simple: rooted in family, true to our core, crafting with honor, and empowering and elevating the people around us.

As a Senior Residential Construction Designer, you will independently lead your own projects from the signed design agreement through handoff to the field
. You will serve as the client's primary designer, develop the project concept and floor plan, manage selections and budgets, produce buildable documentation, coordinate structural and technical requirements, and guide the client through every major design decision.

The work increasingly includes additions, multi-room renovations, whole-home gut renovations, structural modifications, and complete floor plan reconfigurations
. You must be comfortable thinking beyond finishes and cabinetry and understanding how design decisions affect structure, construction, budget, and execution.

• Serve as the client's primary design contact from the signed design agreement through handoff to production
• Lead kickoff site walks, field measurements, and existing-conditions documentation
• Develop floor plan options, design concepts, and complete selection packages
• Lead concept presentations, plan reviews, and selections meetings independently
• Remain the design authority after handoff, resolving field questions as they arise

• Build a design budget at kickoff, allocating the client's investment across trade and selection categories
• Assign a cost impact to plan revisions and selection approvals before they are finalized
• Maintain a clear, running budget position so the client always understands where the project stands
• Lead scope and cost conversations as soon as a project begins trending over budget Produce Buildable Documentation
  • Prepare accurate existing-conditions and proposed plans, elevations, and construction details
  • Identify structural implications…