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Facade Designer
Location: Coventry, with option to work from home 2 days per week.
Salary: Highly Competitive + Benefits
The Company
Our client is looking to appoint an experienced Façade Designer to work within their facade design team. This is a key role within the company, where you will ensure effective and accurate design drawings are produced to ensure an effective installation in both production and on-site. The company operates nationally within the offsite manufacturing sector, delivering complex external packages fitted within our production facility. Recognised for technical capability, structured delivery processes, and a collaborative approach with clients and design partners. The business is well-established, stable, with a strong future order book.
The Role
You will be responsible for creating accurate design drawing for a range of projects, supporting our estimating, production and site teams. This includes early-stage design development to enable the business to secure future projects. The role requires strong technical awareness and confidence working closely with other designers, engineers, our production team and specialist suppliers to ensure buildability and compliance are engineered in before manufacture and construction.
Key Responsibilities:
- To create general building elevations facade drawings.
- To draw each facade item in elevation, section and details.
- To draw and schedule all the facade components for manufacture: glazing, cladding, brackets, flashings and fixings.
- To produce façade installation drawings for the factory and site.
- To develop and innovate solutions for bespoke elements at the project level.
- Provide training sessions to the wider offsite and onsite teams.
- To coordinate the project specification, tender documentation & RFI Schedules - and provide comments where necessary.
About You:
- Good knowledge of construction industry methodologies on detailing and building erection sequencing.
- Good knowledge of cladding and glazing
- Computer-literate in AutoCAD 2D and Revit
- Architectural Technician qualification (essential)
- Engineering Graduate or equivalent (beneficial)
- Experience creating design drawings for façade projects
- Awareness and adherence to building regulations, including the Building Safety Act.
- Personal alignment to the company's core values: Quality, Integrity, Openness, Progressive & Caring
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