Junior Technical Designer
| Posting date: | 21 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,000 to £30,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 April 2025 |
| Location: | Amersham, HP7 0FA |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Get Staffed Online Recruitment Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ESS-6010 |
Summary
Junior Technical Designer
About our client
They are a market-leading joinery specialist that creates bespoke cabinetry, furniture, and premium bespoke kitchens, with their own workshop based in Penn Street, close to Amersham. They have an excellent opportunity for a motivated technical designer to join their team on a permanent, full-time basis. If you are ambitious, passionate about design and details and have a positive working attitude, then this is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-growing and highly acclaimed joinery outfit.
Job description
This is an entry-level position, for a role that requires high attention to detail and technical skill.
- Knowledge in SolidWorks is desired, along with minimum experience in other CAD Software.
- Training on Swood SolidWorks extension, joinery modeling and construction methods, and joinery basic understanding will be provided.
- They work for a wide variety of private clients, high-end contractors, and interior design clients, and their briefs are generally to turn their concept images and drawings into cost-effective reality, using their creativity and technical knowledge in new and innovative ways.
- The technical design team works closely with the concept-sales designers to produce shop drawings and specifications for both customer concept sign-off and production.
- The sales designers handle sampling, concept design, and client management, with the technical design team producing the detailed drawings for sign-off, production, and installation.
Duties will include:
- To work alongside a team of 3 other in-house technical designers.
- To assist a team of sales and concept designers with technical advice and work together to detail highly bespoke items.
- To translate concept drawings/visuals into shop drawings for manufacture and concept sign-off, principally using Solidworks/ SWOOD.
- To produce drawings to the appropriate level of detail (including specialist materials) for manufacture and to be used on-site during installation.
- To ensure deadlines are met and designs are produced efficiently.
- To work with the sales designers to produce detailed specifications for procurement, manufacture, and client sign-off.
Skills required:
- Previous experience using CAD software's such as SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Cabinet Vision, AutoCAD, etc.
- Excellent planning, organisation, and communication skills.
- A thorough approach and attention to detail.
- Some experience with other software packages is beneficial: SketchUp, and Microsoft Office (Microsoft Excel, Word, etc.).
- Positive and proactive working attitude.
- Passionate about technical design.
- Willingness to learn and continually develop skills.