Senior Designer

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Senior Designer

Eurosafe is a leading provider of fall protection, access, and safety solutions, helping organisations create safer working environments at height. We deliver high-quality design, installation and maintenance services across a wide range of sectors.

Our team is hands-on, safety-focused and committed to delivering work to the highest standards. We value people who take ownership of their work, lead by example and consistently strive for excellence.

At Eurosafe, our values of Integrity, Safety, Quality, and Teamwork guide everything we do. Our vision, ‘Safety Assured, Trust Secured’, reflects our commitment to building confidence with our clients and each other through consistently high standards and responsible practices. Our mission is to be an industry-leading technical service provider, delivering high-quality services and products that create safe and secure working environments, therefore contributing to a working atmosphere conducive to optimal performance levels.

Eurosafe Contracting Limited is an equal opportunities employer.

Job Description

Due to ongoing business growth, we are presently looking to add a designer to our busy team. The role involves working within a small team to create and illustrate pre-and post-contract designs for working at heights equipment such as fall protection systems, abseil access systems, suspended access equipment, guardrail systems, stairs, ladders, roof walkways and other architectural and structural metalwork. The design role will involve production of technical drawings for submission to the customer based on realising either preconceived ideas put forward by our sales department or concepts of your own making, alongside the eventual production of fabrication drawings for manufacture of the design.

The position will suit an individual that enjoys team working, problem solving and technical drawing who is willing to work hard to produce first class results and gain invaluable experience working with industry leading clients on the most prestigious construction projects in the UK.

Accountabilities and Main Duties

• Interpret customer requirements via communicating with internal sales department and client to produce design approval drawings.

• Liaise and communicate with contractors and architects directly to comprehensively understand project deliverables and design programme requirements

• Interpretation of design standards and regulations to inform design proposals

• Liaise and communicate with engineers to inform and substantiate design proposals

• Lead projects through the design phase liaising with the relevant staff accordingly to ascertain pertinent design information

• Produce accurately detailed fabrication drawings to allow the fabrication of a structurally sound, bespoke product manufactured from the correctly specified materials

• Liaise with fabricators when required during the manufacturing stage to ensure that the designs are accurately realised

• Be commercially minded enough to analyse and arrive at the most cost-effective solution

• General drawing office administrative duties as and when required

• Attendance of design meetings at site, client’s offices, video conference when required

Experience & Qualifications

• 2D AutoCAD – Essential. 3D AutoCAD/Inventor/Revit – Advantageous but not essential.

• Proven working design experience in the Construction Industry

• Fabrication drawing background, ideally in the steel fabrication / architectural metalwork industry.

• Experience of working to design standards.

• Understand manufacturing technologies, processes techniques and installation procedures.

• Use of in-house systems and standard drawing office procedures for design processes.

• Good communicator via telephone / email.

• Proven experience of working to deadlines and programme.

• ‘Can do’ attitude and ability to work well under pressure.

• Willing to go above and beyond to achieve high level results

• Site surveying experience advantageous.

• Strong team mentality

Nice to Have

Experience in any of the following may set you apart:

• Relevant design / construction qualifications

• Experience in fall protection or secondary steelwork design

Why Choose Eurosafe?

Established in 1999, Eurosafe prides itself on the quality of the projects we deliver and the service we provide to our clients; this can only be achieved with highly motivated, quality people. We are therefore committed to high standards of staff development and retention making this role suitable for a committed individual who is looking for stable long-term career development.

We are a vibrant and ambitious company with an open and relaxed management culture, nurturing continuous improvement and innovation. We believe this attitude has allowed us to achieve a staff turnover rate well below the industry average. Our entrepreneurial ethos encourages and fosters the growth of our employees and our proactive growth strategy helps us to run a sustainable and profitable business while providing new and exciting career opportunities for all.

Eurosafe Solutions Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Benefits include:

• Additional leave

• Company events

• Company pension

• Life insurance

• On-site parking

• Paid volunteer time

• Private dental insurance

• Private medical insurance

Work Location: This role is based from our Head Office in Sheffield. Flexible working from home can be discussed.

To apply for this role please send your CV and a covering letter to...

jobs@eurosafeuk.com