Interior Designer

Perdue Office Interiors, a Suddath Company, has provided innovative workplace solutions for organizations ranging from start-up entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies since 1916. As the exclusive Steelcase dealer in the region, Perdue provides products and turnkey services you won’t find anywhere else in North Florida.

This is an on-site position at our Melbourne location.

We offer a hybrid work mode, 4 days in office and 1 day remote.

Responsibilities include design, space planning, layout, and specifications of commercial office furniture and systems products and architectural walls. Coordinate and implement detailed space plans to address customer space requirements within allotted time and budget constraints in support of all sales and marketing efforts.

Consult with sales team on the layout, design and space planning of furniture specifications for client offices. Travel to client’s location to field measure layout.

Perform programming, space planning, furniture selection, layout, product pricing, design and selection of fabrics and finishes, including as-built drawings, block plans, space plans and finished working drawings for specification and installation.

Material & Color Selections
- Furniture:
Research, Selection & Specifications.

Accurately create quotes for client’s approval.

Provides professional customer interface by attending client planning meetings to determine furniture needs and develops solutions to meet these needs.

Offers technical design and creative consultation to customers by answering both routine and highly specialized questions regarding furniture.

Coordinate, develop, and review proposed project designs and construction plans. Prepare presentation material including digital color finish.

Review job site in order to perform accurate measurements. Will do plan-to-site adherence checks.

Validate plans against construction, electrical engineering and Architect & Design (A&D) drawing sets.

Develop project specifications, double check specifications against plans, verify specifications against plans, assure specifications are ready for order entry (CET/SIF file), and manage changes and revisions.

Prepare installation drawings for field personnel. Coordinate electrical locations.

Provide on-site job inspections comparing construction drawings to final build-out.

Work with installers to ensure installation meets customer specifications; complete punchlists.

• Three to five years’ experience with furniture product knowledge, furniture design and furniture specification software – knowledge of Configura CET highly preferred.
• Three to five years furniture dealership experience required
• Computer literate (AutoCAD, Revit, Configura CET, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Bluebeam, Photoshop and Sketch Up). Configura CET experience highly preferred.
• Knowledge and experience in designing and specifying demountable architectural wall products and modular casework highly preferred.
• Knowledge in space planning, typical development and input of systems furniture, demountable architectural walls and modular casegood layouts into AutoCAD, Revit, and Configura CET.
• Working knowledge of applicable building codes, ADA regulations.
• Energetics and strong customer service skills with a desire to go above & beyond to assist others. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail oriented, organized and ability to work with mathematical concepts.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize & initiate action in a timely manner.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and to work with minimum supervision.

Ability to travel as needed

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor’s degree in design or architecturefrom 4-year college or university required. Interior Design degree from an accredited university preferred. Minimum three years professional experience in the…