Facades Designer

Façade Designer
Portsmouth | Southampton | Basingstoke
£40,000 - £45,000
PERMANENT – FULL TIME
My client is a leading principal contractor who deliver high-quality, compliant, multi-million-pound contracts throughout London and the wider Southeast. They are currently looking for an experienced Designer to join their Hampshire teams.
Role purpose
* Go to site and site office (3-4 days per week) and take surveys, complete photos to create drawings
* Create drawings, using relevant specifications
* Liaise with Estimating, at construction stage, Commercial and Site management and other relevant departments throughout the life of the project as required to track design and quality issues.
* Liaise with manufacturers, external structural engineers and architects, as required.
Job duties
* Ensure information is available for site set up in line with company requirements, from job start to close.
* Assist D&Q manager with training and advising site management and subcontractors as required.
* Attend regular meetings with site teams, as required.
* As advised by D&Q manager, visit sites on a planned and adhoc basis.
* Measure and monitor delivery of KPIs for site management and subcontractors.
* Ensure updated information for subcontractor database is passed to procurement and ordering.
* Collate relevant information for relevant standards to pass to client and funder as appropriate.
* Make recommendations for changes, to D&Q manager.
* Creation, monitoring and revision of assigned drawings.
* Liaison with manufacturers and project teams including distribution of relevant documentation.
* Respond to technical queries and make recommendations to fix problems.
* Respond to adhoc problems and raise with D&Q manager accordingly.
* Occasionally Assist with site inspections to monitor and manage technical quality of works and ensure they are carried out as per specifications and manufacturers’ recommendations.
Required skills
* Engineering or Architect related studies or equivalent experience
* CSCS card basic level
* Facades experience, EWI, cladding, rainscreen experience is essential
* Competent user MS Excel, MS Word, Project Probe, Microsoft Outlook email and calendars.
* Expert Auto CAD user (3D AutoCAD/SketchUp/Revit optional)
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