Are you a furniture design expert looking for an opportunity to use your passion and talent to enhance your career in an growing professional firm in Winnipeg?
If yes, then please consider this outstanding position as the next step!

REQUIREMENTS:

• College Diploma or University Degree
• 3+ years’ work experience in Furniture/Design Industry
• Has strong knowledge of interior design field and current practices
• Understands workplace environment issues (ergonomics, technology integration, teaming, alternative officing, etc.)
• Strong IT proficiency and abilities in MS Office (including data entry skills)
• Excellent written and verbal English skills
• Experience in managing labour costs is preferred
• Ability to travel by car within Winnipeg is required

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Attends client planning meetings; presents plans and information to customer for review and approvals
• Reviews site; conducts field measurements and plan-to-site adherence checks
• Inventories existing product; produces as-built drawings/specifications
• Conducts in-depth programming and produces program report; interviews customer/end users, researches workplace requirements, analyzes space/furniture needs
• Develops block and space plans; gains customer approvals
• Develops color/finish boards and selections; 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; gets specifications order-entry ready using an electronic specification program preferably
• Manages changes and revisions
• Conducts field and punch-list review with project managers and/or installation group

TYPE OF PERSON WHO WILL SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• Directive personality – solves problems in decisive manner.
• Positive and outgoing – interacts in a socially engaging manner.
• Sense of urgency – with a ‘thick skin’ and high tolerance for ambiguity.
• Detail oriented – but with creative ability to get the job done.
• Strong drive to help others.
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of results-orientation.