Job Title: Restaurant Designer
Location: Croydon
Salary: £30,000 – £35,000
Job type: Full time, permanent
Are you looking to develop your design skills and drive the company’s creative direction?
Would you like to work for a progressive and ambitious company within the catering and restaurant sectors? Are you able to work successfully, pro-actively and independently with multiple projects and deadlines? Do you want to join company that’s owned by it’s employees? If so, please read on.
IFSE Group create exciting, innovative, and versatile food and beverage facilities for projects of all sizes and all market sectors. From a single piece of equipment to a full turn-key solution, we treat every project with the same care and efficiency, creating great results for our customers, our partners, and our team.
Some of our recent work includes design and build projects for M&S Cafés, Hilton Hotels, BBC, Howdens, The NEC Exhibition Centre, Goodman’s Steak House, Paul’s Patisserie, Coco Di Mama and The National Gallery.
The role:
At the core of our business is our design office, currently comprising of 6 operators. Company business is generated by our sales force team to produce high quality commercial kitchen and restaurant design drawings and 3D visualizations, followed up with accurate technical service drawings once a project is secured.
The senior designer role is also required to liaise with customers, architects, suppliers, M&E companies as well as all other departments within IFSE (estimating, order processing, project management and administration) to provide an effective design and technical service. Interior design work will be required with preparation of proposals and mood boards for finishes and furniture for restaurant customer facing areas. Occasional site visits to take site dimensions and gain experience will be required.
Required Skills:
- Excellent high level AutoCad skill essential
- Experience in commercial kitchen and restaurant design with an in-depth knowledge of catering equipment would be highly desirable
- Good design skills and design flair are essential
- Good standard of technical awareness
- Good knowledge of latest Windows operating systems
- Good communication skills – the Cad Operator is an integral part of a friendly team and must be a good team player with a helpful attitude and have excellent spoken and written English
- Capability to produce fully detailed M&E service drawings
- Knowledge of general architecture building layouts
Essential Experience:
- AutoCad (essential)
- 3DS Max (essential)
- Microsoft Office Suite (essential)
- Adobe Photoshop (essential)
- Developing Plans/Moodboard/Proposals
- Internet proficient for uploading and downloading drawings and documents
Desirable Experience:
- CRM Systems
- Common Data Environments (CDE)
- REVIT Knowledge
Benefits Package:
- Salary dependent on experience and level of skills
- Private Health Care (after 20 weeks service)
- Company pension scheme with 4% company contribution
- Life cover amounting to 4 x salary (after 20 weeks service)
- Paid annual leave: 25 days pro rata plus Public Holidays
- Following the third year of service leave increases by one day per year, up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave
- Bank holidays are paid in addition to the above annual leave
- Discretionary annual profit share which is related to the success of the company for the year
- There is on-site parking available and the IFSE offices are within a 5-minute walk of the Waddon Marsh tram stop
Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa’s at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK.
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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Kitchen Design, Bathroom Design, CAD Technician, Design Graduate, Restaurant Design Consultant, Graduate Designer, Designer, CAD, Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Design Technician, 2D CAD, CAD Operator, CAD Designer, CAD Design, Design Engineer, CAD Engineer, Technical Coordinator, Technical Designer, Kitchen Sales, Bathroom Sales, Sales Coordinator, Showroom Sales and Interior Design may also be considered for this role.
