Sr. Interior Designer Job Job in Virginia Beach, Virginia US
Sr. Interior Designer Job
Sr. Interior Designer: # Introduction: Business Interiors by Staples provides comprehensive furniture solutions for customers of all sizes. Our furniture professionals work with customers to understand their business objectives and then create furniture solutions that support those objectives. It takes a team of talented associates to develop projects from concept to completion. Our sales professionals, interior designers, project managers, and furniture sales support associates are the best in the business - because we know that when it's all said and done, talented teams win! Thanks for your interest in Business Interiors by Staples. Position Summary: Responsible for activities related to the design, space planning, layout, and specifications of commercial grade office furniture and systems products. Coordinates and implements detailed space plans to address customer space requirements within allotted time and budget constraints. This position reports to the Supervisor, Interior Design or the furniture leader in those markets that do not have multiple designers and a design supervisor. Assists in training new employees and provides guidance to current employees. Primary Responsibilities: - Consults with Sales Team in the layout, design and space planning of furniture specifications for client offices. - Travels to client's location to measure layout. - Performs programming, space planning, furniture selection, layout, casework, product pricing, design and selection of fabrics and finishes, includes as-built drawings, block plans, space plans and finished working drawings for specification and installation. - Provides professional customer interface. - Attends client's planning meetings to determine furniture needs and develops solutions to meet these needs. - Offers technical design and creative consultation to customers. - Answers both routine and highly specialized questions regarding furniture systems. - Coordinates, develops, and reviews proposed project designs and construction plans. - Prepares presentation material including color finish boards. - Reviews job site in order to perform accurate measurements. - Will do plan-to-site adherence checks. - Validates plans against construction, electrical engineering and architect Design (AD) drawing sets. - Develops project specifications, double check specifications against plans, gets specs order entry ready (SIF file), manages changes and revisions. - Verifies the company design standards have been met. - Provides on-site job inspections comparing construction drawings to final build-out. - Tracks, records and ties design hours to specific projects for job costing. - Works with installers to ensure installation meets customer specifications. - Participates in work-in-progress (WIP) and open order backlog review meetings with the furniture management team. - Serve in a lead capacity on special projects, work direction, coaching, mentoring and train