Senior Interior Designer

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Interior Designer (Sr. ) is responsible for defining the scope of work through assessing the client's needs, requirements, and design/décor style. This position will provide design expertise and recommendations to clients including concept development, field measurements, space planning, generating visual plan layouts and sourcing products, materials, and accessories. The Sr.  attend client meetings and create client presentations while working toward multiple deadlines.

Additionally, this position will assist the Director of Interior Design (DID) in providing oversight for the interior design staff, ensuring that interior designers are trained and mentored and that the needs and progress of the interior design staff are reported.

Project Management (60%)

• Attend all internal and client meetings including, but not limited to, discovery, debrief, pre-design, and recap meetings, cabinet sign-off meetings, project team meetings, project end of design (EOD) meetings, and miscellaneous job site meetings.
• Provide clear, written communication to the project team after key meetings and as needed to keep the team updated on related items.
• Collaborate with clients on design factors to achieve the client s goals with the highest level of quality and finish.
• Analyze clients needs and specifications to ensure the project is finished within the timeline and budget.
• Correspond with clients in a proactive manner to keep them up to date.
• Obtain bids for allowance items and communicate with the estimating department to upload costs into Builder Trend (BT).
• Coordinate with the estimating department to ensure all costs and orders are sourced and approved appropriately.
• Coordinate with the project managers and trade partners to ensure a smooth build process.
• Read, interpret, review, and make corrections to finished interior design plans as needed per the scope of work and have a clear understanding of change orders.
• Use design software to create models and visuals.
• Create tile drawings and order various materials.
• Organize and maintain project information in project folders on the server.
• Submit weekly project updates to the DID.

Team Management (20%)

• Provide training and mentoring to the Junior Interior Designers (Jr. ) and interior design staff.
• Ensure selections are input into the selection management software with accurate descriptions and costs adhering to company best practices and procedures.
• Ensure that selection meetings are scheduled and held in a timely manner.
• Ensure all selections are approved in selections management software prior to EOD meetings.

Administration (20%)

• Perform data entry into selections management software and BT, including setting up project templates, adding plumbing and appliance specs, and adding all selections.
• Attend trade shows to stay up to date on design trends, materials, lighting, and related products.
• Research products and materials as needed to support the design team on technical issues influencing concept development.
• Ensure the selections library is current, relevant, and cutting edge.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.

The physical demands/conditions described below are representative of those that must be met/tolerated by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Ability to travel to various locations.
• Interacting with customers on a daily basis.
• Standing for sometimes long and continuous periods of time.
• Sitting for sometimes long and continuous periods of time.
• Answering or making calls on the telephone for sometimes long and continuous periods of time.
• Using a keyboard to perform research and to communicate through written means for sometimes long and continuous periods of time.
• Looking at a computer monitor for sometimes long and continuous periods of time.
• Occasionally standing, walking,…