Jobs in Broughton in Furness

2D Design Office Manager/ Team Leader
Up to £45,000 (dependant on experience)
Full time 35 hours per week
Company Profit Bonus 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
Big birthdays ending in a zero, receive an additional holiday
Free personalized well-being plans, access to high street & gym discounts
Employee Assistance programme & Health Cash Plan
Private Medical Insurance & Company Pension
Refer a friend scheme
At Playdale Playgrounds Ltd we are a dynamic, international business currently in over 50 countries, who design, manufacture, and install fun, exciting, outdoor playground equipment. We pride ourselves on creating exciting, innovative, and educational outdoor play equipment that makes children smile all over the world.
About the role (not an exhaustive list)
• Ensuring the Playground Designers are appropriately trained and developed.
• Developing and maintaining good individual and team communication internally and externally.
• Manage and motivate direct reports and schedules, ensuring that optimal output is achieved providing an exceptional service for internal and external customers.
• Defining problems and finding/implementing solutions that work. Making collaborative decisions about change ensuring effective implementation of resolution.
• Creating 2D schemes and presentations ensuring that all information and technical details are gathered from the customer to guarantee that schemes are accurate and within the customers budget.
• Ensuring staff provide accurate, timely and sound information on which decisions can be made effectively.
• Ensuring that any systems and procedures are adhered to.
• Maintaining CRM ensuring customer information and records are recorded timely, clear and are concise.
• To actively monitor attendance and performance of staff.
About you
To excel in this role, the successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to manage people and performance.
• You must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, ensuring a ‘right first time’ culture.
• You must have strong communication and interpersonal skills, be self-motivated, and have a structured approach to planning and managing your workload.
• Strong analytical skills having ability to deal with data.
• Highly organised and results oriented.
• You should have a flair for attractive presentation, having experience of design software packages (in particular AutoCad or similar) and familiarity with Adobe Photoshop would be an advantage but not essential.
• Our ideal candidate should be competent in Microsoft packages and be able to demonstrate a good working knowledge of excel, whilst possessing good numeric skills.
• An interest in AI is desirable
• You should be versatile and able to work in a demanding fast paced environment to meet tight deadlines.
• You should be self-motivated and organised but above all be creative.
You will have the opportunity to turn your ideas into the reality of fun and imaginative play. To have a genuine passion for the Playdale brand, having a positive and can-do attitude. Please click the link to apply via our website and attach a CV and your portfolio of work