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Join Our Growing Industrial Design Team at Foster + Partners as a Furniture/Product Designer. We are seeking a creative, technically skilled designer to contribute to architectural projects, private commissions, and collaborations with renowned design brands. This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative product designs for commercial manufacture, requiring strong design sensitivity and workshop expertise.
Responsibilities
- To work on industrial and furniture projects within the department.
- To prepare and develop from the brief, a design proposal and presentation by means of hand sketches, technical drawings, graphics, CAD models, working and presentation models
- To take responsibility where required by the project leader for specific areas of the design and project development
- To assess the need for manufacture of a presentation model and to liaise with the modelshop in terms of time and material management. To work within the safety guidelines and provide support to others within the machine tool environment
- To give support where needed to colleagues working on other projects within the industrial team
- To liaise with other specialist teams such as Sustainability Engineering and Materials Library.
- Thorough knowledge of and compliance with Foster + Partners procedures and standards
- To contribute, or otherwise assist, as required
- Thorough knowledge and compliance with Foster + Partners procedures and standards
- Equity, diversity & inclusion (EDI) is a core priority. To support and champion the embedding of this focus as a collective workforce responsibility, EDI should be integrated, where relevant, into all workstreams.
About you
- Able to demonstrate ability to undertake the above responsibilities
- Legally able to work in the country in which the position is based
- Excellent organisational skills
- Able to manage sensitive and sometimes confidential information
- Self motivated and able to take responsibility
- Able to demonstrate initiative and a proactive approach to daily tasks
- Good interpersonal skills and able to work independently and as part of an effective team
- Flexible attitude
- Able to build good relationships at all levels, internally and externally
- Resilient to cope with conflicting demands, able to prioritise duties and work effectively under pressure [while always remaining calm and professional]
- Able to work as part of an effective team assisting and supporting team members
This description reflects the core activities of the role but is not intended to be all-inclusive and other duties within the group/department may be required in addition to changes in the emphasis of duties as required from time to time. There is a requirement for the post holder to recognise this and adopt a flexible approach to work. Job descriptions will be reviewed regularly and where necessary revised in accordance with organisational needs. Any major changes will be discussed with the post holder.
