Interior Designer/Furniture Specifier (Workplace) Our client, a well established Business Interiors/Office Furniture dealer in Markham is looking to add a Workplace Designer (Furniture Specifier) to their team. This is a full-time permanent position and is paying a salary of $65 +, depending on experience as well as a competitive benefits and vacation package. Position Summary The Workplace Designer provides design services to sales team and clients, including site/inventory verifications, programming, space planning, typical development, working/installation drawings, specifications and site-to-plan review. Works closely with dealership sales, order entry and installation groups, as well as customers, to ensure accurate plans and specifications, conformance to clients requirements, customer satisfaction and high quality project implementation. Specific Responsibilities and Duties Design Process Attends client planning meetings; presents plans and information to customer for review and approvals. Occasionally reviews site; conducts field measurements and plan-to-site adherence checks. Inventories existing product; produces as-built drawings/specifications. Develops and presents block and space plans; gains customer approvals. Develops finished working drawings for specification and installation; validates plans against construction, electrical engineering and A&D drawing sets; gains customer approvals. Develops product specifications; double-checks specifications against plans; prepares specifications order-entry using Project Spec for all products. Manages changes and revisions. Conducts field and punch-list review with project managers and/or installation group. Estimates design project time; maintains detailed daily time sheets; manages actual time against project estimates. Maintains detailed and extensive project documentation, including records of all key decisions, phone conversations, approvals and sign-offs, and notes from all project planning meetings. Liaises with Client Services, Operations and Sales for all pre-install meetings; helps facilitate a review of whole project in detail. Manages adherence to project schedule, internal dealership budget, customers project budget, design task completion and quality of design work. Communicates regularly to customer and dealership re: design project status. Does plotting, printing, etc. for client and dealership transmittals. Liaises with Client Service to verify list pricing through Lynx and continues to discount through the design process to provide ongoing budgets to clients until order is confirmed. Coordination/Planning Coordinates phone, data, and computer network planning interface with electricians, customers IT group/personnel and outside cabling vendors. Conducts pre-installation meetings with installation group/leads; collects and transmits installation/project work order information to order entry and operations group. Ensures complete and accurate transmittal of project planning data to order entry/ management, project management and installation groups. Please email your resume to with the wording Job #768, Workplace Designer in the subject line.
Job Title
Interior Designer