Theresa Obermoser Design is hiring a senior interior designer/project manager to join its team in London.
The team is spread between the Vienna and Notting Hill offices. This position is for the Notting Hill office. To be part of the team means to create design that inspires and positively influences those who experience it. We value creative thinking and encourage all our team to be restless in the drive to provide industry-leading design solutions for all our clients. All members of our team must have the ability to translate innovative ideas into reality and must keep up with latest trends.
The senior designer works as an interior architectural designer and project manager. Together with the principal in charge, establishes the overall design concept and maintains the continuity of those concepts through the entire project process to completion.
It is the duty of the senior designer to coordinate with the project team to manage all required documentation and to ensure its timely and correct completion within internal and external guidelines, rules and schedules as well as the coordination with the TO internal FF&E team, 3D team and other, external consultants.
You must have at least five years’ experience to apply to this role.
Responsibilities:
- assist in contract preparation and negotiation
- in conjunction with the principal in charge, establish overall design concepts and maintains the continuity of those concepts through the entire project process to completion relative to client programme and budget
- translate concepts into schematic design criteria working with project programme and initial design concepts
- ensure that schematic design is communicated properly to client, design team and production team
- determine level and quality of finishes
- development of presentation material and help maintain graphic quality and content
- participate in presentations as needed
- assist in co-ordination of interior architectural documents with consultants and architects
- coordinate schedules, staff utilisation/work planning and budget requirements
- coordinate with project team members in producing all required schedules (i.e. finishes, sanitary ware, ironmongery etc.)
- coordinate the output of project team members in finalising and documenting the project
- review for code compliance
- maintain journal and records of submittals, samples, shop drawings, etc. and ensure that the aforementioned are reviewed by the relevant team member on schedule
- ensure that team members provide answers, drawings, clarifications in a timely manner during bidding/negotiations and construction administration phases
- develop and maintain positive relationships and channels of communication with client and other appropriate project-related personnel (external and internal)
- coordinate and work closely with the FF&E designer and team to ensure complete briefing and consistency of the design and review FF&E specifications
- maintain regular review of ID documentation, shop drawings, and participate in CI phase to ensure design intent is maintained
- communicate design intent with consultants and review their work for conformance to design intent
- develop project goals in conjunction with other team members
- assist with overall staff utilisation/work plan and information release through the course of the project and provide a project progress report of the workload
- initiate and co-ordinates team meetings, design review, etc.
- initiate client and design team meetings as required
- ensure graphic quality, content, consistency and correctness of Tender/ID documentation
- maintain contact with contractor as needed
- ensure workability of details, etc.
- be knowledgeable about contract responsibilities and monitor all output –during ID documentation and CI phases
- direct education of junior design staff in office standards, policy etc.
- to have good knowledge of AutoCAD, Photoshop, Sketch and and new AI tools are a bonus
- to have good verbal and written communication skills in English
- German skills would be a great bonus
