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Graduate Designer role
Full-time, permanent
Location: 5 days in High Wycombe
Recent graduate in design or architecture
Specific Duties:
- Prepare schematic and working drawings, primarily using CAD.
- Visit sites to ascertain site conditions, carry out surveys and attend design meetings as required.
- Prepare requests for information, query sheets as required and monitor replies.
- Produce drawing schedules, general arrangement and working drawings.
- Monitor own progress against contract programme and report progress on a weekly basis.
- Attend project handover meetings and compile a design brief for the project.
- Produce fabrication information in the form of schedules, cutting lists or component drawings as required to an agreed programme.
- Design review - revise and re-issue commented drawings.
- Undertake checking responsibilities for fabrication information generated by other design personnel.
- Represent OCL as appropriate at any meetings as required.
- Select external designers, structural engineers, consultants where relevant and issue letter of appointment.
- Take on responsibility for a proportion of the design office workload as agreed.
- Check all elements to a project including drawing schedules, general arrangement drawings, working drawings and fabrication information.
- Be aware of current project workload and project timings.
- Provide design and technical support for all other departments as required.
- Ensure that the clients are aware of their duties under the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations.
- Identify the significant health and safety hazards likely to be associated with the design and how it may be constructed and maintained.
- Consider the risks from hazards, which may arise as a result of the design being incorporated into the project and, if possible, alter the design to avoid the risk: or if this is not reasonably practicable to reduce it.
- Provide a design risk assessment to enable the planning supervisor and/or the principal contractor to prepare the relevant documentation required of them by the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations.
- Where necessary in the interests of health and safety, cooperate with any other designer involved in any other aspect of the project.
- Comply with BMS Design Procedures.
If you are interested, are a recent graduate and have the right skills, then please reach out to Paige Camies at the Fawkes & Reece office today!
