Furniture Designer

Furniture Designer

Salary circa £32k to £36k subject to experience

Full Time

Leeds, West Yorkshire

Our client is a market leader in the hotel furniture industry, working with clients such as Hilton, De Vere, Holiday Inn & Crowne Plaza.  With a Head Office and 60,000 sq.ft factory located just 10 minutes from Leeds City Centre, they make high specification, bespoke hotel furniture.  Their ethos is to provide a highly professional working environment with challenging and rewarding projects and opportunity for ongoing personal development.

We are now on the lookout for a Furniture Designer to join our team. 

Job Purpose

To work collaboratively and independently within the design team to deliver accurate and commercially competitive designs. Work with our client’s customers and project managers to interpret their briefs and produce accurate manufacturing drawings.  Coordinate the ideas of our sales team, project managers, manufacturing department with your own ideas and research.  

Essential skills required: 

• 2+ years Solidworks CAD design experience skills and communication skills, enabling you to translate client design briefs into commercially viable product designs.
• Furniture design experience demonstrating the ability to produce accurate, detailed production drawings and bills of material.
• Work well on your own initiative and as part of a team.
• Experience working within tight deadlines whilst accurately delivering the design briefs.
• Managing the designs for multiple projects across the whole project cycle. 
• Able to communicate effectively with all project stake holders.
• A proactive and creative thinker.
• Ability to follow design processes and guides.

Desirable skills required: 

• Furniture experience; understanding of furniture production methods and materials.
• Furniture design qualifications.
• Design for Manufacturing experience.

If you are hard working with a flexible can-do approach, we would love to hear from you.

Apply for this Furniture Designer role now with your updated CV. 

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