Warehouse of Fixtures has an exciting opportunity for an Interior Designer based in our downtown St. Louis location.  If you have a passion for designing commercial spaces, are forward thinking and looking for a place where you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you!

Warehouse of Fixtures continues the tradition of excellence in new, preowned and refurbished office furniture. We meet and exceed our customers’ expectations with great products offered.  Our company serves businesses nationwide and internationally with a focus in the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas.

Key Qualities:

• 15+ Years of Operations Family Owned 
• 60+ Years of local name recognition
• Excellent reputation built around strong customer values, service and solution-focused approach

JOB TITLE: Designer I

DEPARTMENT: Design

SUPERVISOR: Director of Design

FLSA STATUS: Full-time Exempt/ Non-Exempt

DATE: June 2021

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.