White Label recruitment are delighted to support a key client based in the North York area on exclusive basis in their hunt for a Designer/Design Engineer.

Job Role:

As a designer at your job will be varied and stimulating, with all our projects designed in house from start to finish. They rarely complete the same design twice and approach each client’s brief with a blank sheet of paper.

You should have the abilities to design both creatively and technically, taking into consideration how the product will work as well as how it will look. You will also have a level of commercial awareness, understanding how each of your decisions at any point can have an impact on the overall profit of a project.

From one day to the next you could be involved in any part of the project process, from speaking to prospective clients on their first phone call or working with our in-house artisan to agree manufacture and installation processes for the current projects.

Core Duties and Responsibility

• Work within the Design team to take several projects from proposal stage to full completion on time and in budget using all available resources, materials and processes in order to meet the needs of all key stakeholders
• Manage the projects at all stages throughout the design process; on time and within budget
• Provide technical validation and creative development for enquiries
• Convert valid enquiries into projects
• Ensure profitable execution and delivery of projects through design
• Monitor accuracy and quality standards to ensure they are met at all times
• Develop innovative, commercially and environmentally sustainable solutions to projects
• Assist with training and maintenance of the service levels and standards for internal and external clients
• Manage associated paperwork and data input to the levels required by the company
• Review and propose solutions and upgrades to existing company management software
• Co-operate effectively with all areas of the business to ensure the workflow moves successfully between departments
• Ensure that the quality of the product delivered to the workshop is of the highest standard

The Person:

• Min 2 years experience working as a Design Engineer or similar role in furniture design or similar industry
• Experience in using SolidWorks or similar 3D CAD packages such as Autodesk Inventor, Solidedge, etc.
• Experience in managing a project from concept stage to completion, on time, within budget.
• Ideally experience in designing in various types of materials but ideally steel, timber, stone, glass

Salary & Benefits:

• £25,000 - £45,000
• 23 Days Holidays + BH
• Option for WFH/Hybrid Working
• Working Hours:
  • Monday – Thursday - 8:00 am – 5:00pm
  • Friday - 8 am – 3:30 pm
• Working hours are flexible
• Electric Company Car Scheme