Role: Design Lead
Location: Cork
Job Type: Permanent - Full time
Salary: €70,000 DOE Plus Benefits listed below.
At Elk Recruitment, we are looking for a driven Design Lead to join our client’s growing team based in Cork. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Design Lead to make a real impact in an innovative and growing organization.

EXPERIENCE YOU NEED:

• Must come from a design background and have experience client facing and leading projects
• Manufacturing experience desirable
• Manage a technician on the project so management experience is also desirable.
• Relevant Qualification
• Supervisory experience in a similar role
• Experience with BIM is desirable but not essential
• Minimum of 5 years experience with production design
• Good IT Skills (Data entry)
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Have the ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.

• Liaise with relevant departments in the company to ensure all designs are achievable and cost-effective
• Liasing with the client and keeping them up to date on projects
• Prepare Drawings using CAD, Revit and BIM Technology
• Provide advice on the management of projects and design implications.
• Dealing with and responding to emails
• Create high-quality detailed technical drawings and plans based on designs supplied by architects and designers and make modifications to existing drawings
• Ensure that drawings and designs meet client standards
• Ability to work on own initiative and provide innovative solutions to design issues
• Provide accurate, detailed and to scale drawings
• Ensure drawings are compliant with industry and health and safety standards and protocols
• Strong knowledge of materials and engineering principles to check feasibility of manufacture and construction of the product
• Present working drawings for use in all stages of the project, tender, manufacture/construction and installation
• Produce installation and manufacturing documentation
• Maintain accurate records