Our Team

Summary of Position:
Designing spaces with furnishings in collaboration with senior designer, client and salesperson, according to knowledge of design trends, offerings of competition, production costs, capability of production facilities, and characteristics of company’s market. We do this by producing plans, designs, and furnishing interior environments of commercial and industrial buildings by performing the following duties:

Essential Responsibilities:

• • • Confers with Senior designer, customer service and sales personnel to obtain design suggestions and customer orders.
    • Ability to hand-sketch a design in order to show ideas and concepts.
    • Assist with preparing presentation packages for client presentations.
    • Ability to space plan in Auto CAD, manipulate floor plans, dimensions, create schedules, and set title blocks.
    • Assist with preparation of furniture specifications, finishes, and upholstery fabrics, paint to be used in manufacturing.
    • Assist with plan modifications for completed furniture to conform to changes in design trends and increase customer acceptance.
    • Confers with Senior designer to determine architectural preferences, purpose and function of environment, budget, types of construction, equipment to be installed, and other factors which affect planning interior environments.
      Renders design ideas in form of paste ups, drawings, or illustrations, estimates material requirements and costs, and presents design to client for approval.
    • Assists with selecting furnishings, art works, and accessories.
    • Assists with research and sourcing of vendor products to assist with client designs.
    • Other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications:

• • • A minimum of two years’ experience with Microsoft Office Suites
    • Proficient Auto CAD skills are required.
    • CAP 20/20, Worksheet including Visual Impressions 3D rendering skills are preferred.
    • Revit, Sketch Up and other industry related software experience is a plus.
    • Adobe experience preferred.

Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university in Interior Design; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. A minimum of two years of design experience is required.

Design Skills: Ability to illustrate concept by designing layouts regarding arrangement, size, type and style, and related aesthetic concepts.

Please provide a sample of your portfolio or a link to your online portfolio with your resumé.

Benefits: Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance, 401k, Paid Time Off / Flexible Hours, Work week Monday – Friday, Paid Weekly, Great Team Atmosphere

• • • Reads production schedule, customer order, work order, shipping order, or requisition to determine items to be moved, gathered, assembled, or distributed.
    • Loading, unloading, and wrapping furniture on delivery trucks.
    • Tag and label products and make sure all materials have identifying information.
    • Conveys materials and items from receiving or production areas to storage or to other designated areas.
    • Sorts and places materials or items on racks, shelves, or in bins according to predetermined sequence such as size, type, style, color, or product code.
    • Fills requisitions, work orders, or requests for materials, tools, or other stock items and distributes items to production workers.
    • Assembles customer orders from stock and places orders on pallets or shelves or conveys orders to packing station or shipping bays.
    • Helps sales team with Will Call tickets – pick-ups, product availability.
    • Works with other team members to organize and maintain used showroom floor.
    • Preps used products for displays and builds them.
    • Records amounts of materials or items received or distributed.
    • Weighs or counts items for distribution within plant to ensure conformance to company standards.
    • Arranges stock parts in specified sequence for assembly by other workers.
    • Uses computer to enter records.
    • Compile’s worksheets or tickets from customer specifications.
    • Maintains inventory records, adjustments, and descriptions.
    • Ensure adequate inventory levels on showroom floor.
    • Follows all OSHA requirements.

Knowledge/ Skills & Abilities:

• • • Ability to communicate in both speech and writing.
    • Ability to carry out goals and instructions and to follow through on assignments.
    • Demonstrates a customer focus.
    • Ability to safely move up to 50 lbs. or more with assistance.
    • Ability to maintain heavy physical activity during shift.
    • Ability to bend, stoop, reach, stand, and walk frequently.
    • Ability to work in in-door/out-door climate.
    • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel preferred.

Education and/or Experience:

• • • High School Diploma or Equivalent
    • Minimum 1 to 3 months related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• • • Disassembly of office furniture, shelving, and cubicles.
    • Systems furniture configuration or reconfiguration.
    • Picking up products and on-site delivery from the warehouse.
    • Crating or un-crating product either on-site or at the warehouse.
    • Delivery and installation of office cubicles.
    • Delivery and assembly of office furniture to include, but not limited to desk, credenzas, and conference tables.
    • Make sure customer’s furniture orders are installed and assembled perfectly and in an opportune fashion.
    • Read drawings and laying out rooms accordingly.
    • Trouble shooting and servicing furniture when there are issues.
    • Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge/ Skills & Abilities:

• • • Ability to communicate in both speech and writing.
    • Ability to carry out goals and instructions and to follow through on assignments.
    • Demonstrates a customer focus.
    • Ability to safely move up to 100 lbs. or more with assistance.
    • Ability to maintain heavy physical activity during shift.
    • Ability to bend, stoop, reach, stand, and walk frequently.
    • Ability to work in in-door/out-door climate.

Education and/or Experience:

• • • High School Diploma or Equivalent
    • Minimum 1 year experience as furniture installer

• • • Develops and provides input on delivery and installation requirements needed to determine the total labor and gross margin for a customer’s order.
    • Interfaces with other departments and vendors to ensure customer order deadlines are met.
    • Studies installation schedules and estimates worker hour requirements for completion of job assignment.
    • Creates detailed project schedule timelines to ensure customer shipment dates and equipment specifications are met. Project plan will include measurements to track progress.
    • Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet installation schedules.
    • Develops methods, guidelines, and policies to facilitate efficient service delivery.
    • Troubleshoot issues that arise with customer deliveries and installations.
    • Provides onsite client support.
    • Ensure all customer issues are satisfactorily resolved, utilizing other teams as needed.
    • Coordinate’s manpower requirements by increasing or decreasing personnel and overtime to meet changing conditions.
    • Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
    • Maintains time and service delivery records.
    • Estimates, requisitions, and inspects materials.
    • Confers with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments.
    • Oversees training of direct reports.
    • Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
    • Works with sales and design on spec check of orders
    • Quality control, resolution, and prevention as this position is the first stop before it gets back to Sales and Design.
    • Performing quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected.
    • Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques.
    • Report and escalate to management as needed.
    • Serve as the point of contact with our teams on projects. Coordinating and communicating with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
    • Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
    • Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Directly supervises a team of employees in the Installation Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees, mentoring, and coaching; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Problem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem solving situations; uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
• Communications – Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Managing Customer Focus – Promotes customer focus; establishes customer service standards; provides training in customer service delivery; monitors customer satisfaction; develops new approaches to meeting customer needs.
• Managing People – Includes staff in planning, decision-making, facilitating and process improvement; takes responsibility for subordinates’ activities; makes self-available to staff; provides regular performance feedback; develops subordinates’ skills and encourages growth; solicits and applies customer feedback (internal and external); fosters quality focus in others; improves processes, products, and services.; continually works to improve supervisory skills.
• Planning/Organizing – Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; develops realistic action plans.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: One to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience or bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university.

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills: Functional experience with Excel, PowerPoint and QuickBooks preferred. Experience with Smartsheet, CAD, and Blueprints a plus but not required

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Class E license

c