A1157 Design Solutions LLC DBA Cultura, specializes in designing and furnishing workspaces, has the following open degreed/experienced position(s) available in San Diego, CA:

Senior Designer

  • Provides design services to dealership customers, including site/inventory verifications, programming, space planning, typical development, color boards, working/installation drawings, specifications and site-to-plan review.
  • Works closely with dealership sales, order entry and installation groups, as well as customers, to ensure accurate plans and specifications, conformance to client’s requirements, customer satisfaction and high-quality project implementation.
  • Design Process: Attends client planning meetings; presents plans and information to customer for review and approvals; Reviews site; conducts field measurements and plan-to-site adherence checks; Inventories existing product; produces as-built drawings/specifications; Conducts in-depth programming and produces program report; interviews customer/end users, researches workplace requirements, analyzes space/furniture needs; Develops and presents block and space plans; gains customer approvals; Develops and presents color/finish boards and selections; gains customer approvals; Develops finished working drawings for specification and installation; validates plans against construction, electrical engineering and A&D drawing sets; gains customer approvals; Develops product specifications; double-checks specifications against plans; gets specifications order-entry ready using an electronic specification program preferably; Manages changes and revisions; Conducts field and punch-list review with project managers and/or installation group.
  • Departmental Practices: Estimates design project time; manages actual time against project estimates; Assists in the writing and presentation of design proposals and contracts to customers; Maintains detailed and extensive project documentation, including records of all key decisions, phone conversations, approvals and sign-offs, and notes from all project planning meetings;
  • Manages adherence to project schedule, internal dealership budget, customer’s project budget, design task completions and quality of design work; Communicates regularly to customer and dealership re: design project status; Does plotting, printing, color boards, etc. for client and dealership transmittals.
  • Coordination/Planning: Coordinates phone, data, and computer network planning interface with electrician, customer’s IT group/personnel and outside cabling vendors; Conducts pre-installation meetings with installation group/leads; collects and transmits installation/project work order information to order entry and operations group; Ensures complete and accurate transmittal of project planning data to order entry/ management, project management and installation groups.
  • Organizational Interfaces: Conducts responsible interfaces with: client, contractor and subcontractor trades, client’s A&D firm, electrician, client’s IT group, etc.; Conducts responsible interfaces with: dealership sales, project management, customer service/project coordinator and operations/installation groups.
  • Will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign academic equivalent in Graphic Design, Interior Design, Architecture or related field and two (2) years of experience with Commercial Furniture Specifications.

40 hours/week; $80,000.00 – $100,000.00/year

To apply, e-mail resume w/ ref# to: jgisel@wearecultura.com

Reference Number: AA-A1157

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