What are the responsibilities and job description for the Designer position at IA Interior Architects?
Interior Architects translates client goals, brand and culture into powerful environments built around people, processes, technologies and business drivers. Our clients in diverse markets worldwide require high-performance, visually compelling and sustainable environments to move their enterprise forward, support their culture, engage their staff, integrate technology and drive efficiencies. As architects, designers, workplace strategists and environmental specialists in the largest global architecture firm concentrating exclusively on interiors, we help clients articulate and align their business strategies and core values with the dynamic use of space.
Our team members are collaborative, creative, professional, expert and entrepreneurial. Joining our team requires skill, daring, leadership, teaming, humor and a love of Design. We are presently searching for a Designer for our Houston studio. The Designer, working under general supervision of a Senior Designer or Project Manager, provides design support primarily in project administration, presentations, concept design through design development, and contract documents.
Specific responsibilities will include:
• Works with team to develop architectural concepts for interior and exterior repositioning and/ or adaptive projectseas and create both presentation and construction drawings
• Works with team to develop design id
• With Senior Designer, researches and selects fixtures and finishes to use for projects
• Ensures integration into overall design
• Develop and finalize conceptual design for smaller projects
• Provides detail for interior and architectural design projects
• Develops and delivers overall design and furniture packages for both interior and exterior
• Obtains cost estimates and produces final cost estimates
• May be required to assist with support for field surveys
• Manages design budget for assigned projects
• Ensures adherence to set budget and immediately informs Senior Designer, PM and/or client of any potential variances to the budget
• May mentor the work of Junior and Intermediate Designers
• Conducts client interviews to determine space needs and requirements; good working knowledge of Affinity program tool
Qualifications:
• Graduate of architecture or design school: equivalent experience may be substituted
• 5 years’ experience in workplace design, focusing on building repositioning and adaptive re-use projects as well as corporate interior
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Extensive knowledge of design principles, workplace trends and aesthetics
• Extensive knowledge of repositioning and adaptive r-use projects
• Advance presentation skills
• Extensive knowledge of space planning, furnishings and finishes
• Advanced sketching and rendering skills
• Advanced architecture detailing skills
• Extensive knowledge of CDs and procedures
• Advanced Revit skills
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite and Enscape skills
Please submit a portfolio or work examples with your application
