Your Role

Gensler’s Birmingham office is seeking an experienced Senior Interior Designer to join our team. You will have Revit capabilities and be responsible for initiating the technical solutions to best meet the client and design briefs. You will be experienced in handling the technical process, with excellent communication and team relationship skills, and the ability to understand and interpret both the client, designer and contractor’s needs and requirements.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Interior Designer, you will tap into your creativity to design unique professional environments, providing technical support for completion and execution of projects, working on all project stages.

Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously working with the team to design and deliver major projects for professional and financial service companies and other corporates. These can be architecture and interior design projects.
Experience in the design and delivery of workplace and lifestyle design projects is essential
Manage project lifecycle; estimating, bidding, project kick-off, weekly coordination, punch/snagging lists, turnover, opening, and project close-out
Support communication between project team, clients, vendors, contractors, consultants, and building and permitting officials
Provide technical guidance and innovative solutions to resolve complex technical and design challenges 
Maintain project manual and specifications
Conduct and document site visits, process submittals, substitution requests, and RFI’s during construction
Have a proactive, problem solving attitude and be able to work closely with the wider consultancy team to develop innovative technical design solutions

Your Qualifications

An undergraduate or Master’s degree in Architecture or Interior Designer
Minimum 10 years post qualification professional work experience
Experience in project leadership, excellent client liaison and team management skills
Ability to develop collaborative relationships across the firm, with clients, and with other key constituents
Proficiency in Revit preferred
Experience with the full project lifecycle
Ability to understand how buildings are constructed and to create technical documents that succinctly describe the work to be done
Strong leadership, organizational, communication and relationship-management skills

Life at Gensler

As part of the firm’s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programmes as strategic investments in our future.

Interior Designer - Senior