Senior Designer

About Eurosafe

Eurosafe is a leading provider of fall protection, access, and safety solutions, helping organisations create safer working environments at height. We deliver high-quality design, installation and maintenance services across a wide range of sectors.

Our team is hands-on, safety-focused and committed to delivering work to the highest standards. We value people who take ownership of their work, lead by example and consistently strive for excellence.

At Eurosafe, our values of Integrity, Safety, Quality, and Teamwork guide everything we do. Our vision, ‘Safety Assured, Trust Secured’, reflects our commitment to building confidence with our clients and each other through consistently high standards and responsible practices. Our mission is to be an industry-leading technical service provider, delivering high-quality services and products that create safe and secure working environments, therefore contributing to a working atmosphere conducive to optimal performance levels.

Eurosafe Contracting Limited is an equal opportunities employer.

About the Role

Due to ongoing business growth, we are presently looking to add a designer to our busy team. The role involves working within a small team to create and illustrate pre-and post-contract designs for working at heights equipment such as fall protection systems, abseil access systems, suspended access equipment, guardrail systems, stairs, ladders, roof walkways and other architectural and structural metalwork. The design role will involve production of technical drawings for submission to the customer based on realising either preconceived ideas put forward by our sales department or concepts of your own making, alongside the eventual production of fabrication drawings for manufacture of the design.

The position will suit an individual that enjoys team working, problem solving and technical drawing who is willing to work hard to produce first class results and gain invaluable experience working with industry leading clients on the most prestigious construction projects in the UK.

Key Responsibilities

· Interpret customer requirements via communicating with internal sales department and client to produce design approval drawings.

· Liaise and communicate with contractors and architects directly to comprehensively understand project deliverables and design programme requirements

· Interpretation of design standards and regulations to inform design proposals

· Liaise and communicate with engineers to inform and substantiate design proposals

· Lead projects through the design phase liaising with the relevant staff accordingly to ascertain pertinent design information

· Produce accurately detailed fabrication drawings to allow the fabrication of a structurally sound, bespoke product manufactured from the correctly specified materials

· Liaise with fabricators when required during the manufacturing stage to ensure that the designs are accurately realised

· Be commercially minded enough to analyse and arrive at the most cost-effective solution

· General drawing office administrative duties as and when required.

· Attendance of design meetings at site, client’s offices, video conference when required.

What We’re Looking For

An ideal candidate meets at least the following requirements:

· 2D AutoCAD – Essential. 3D AutoCAD/Inventor/Revit – Advantageous but not essential.

· Proven working design experience in the Construction Industry

· Fabrication drawing background. Ideally in the steel fabrication / architectural metalwork industry.

· Experience of working to design standards.

· Understand manufacturing technologies, processes techniques and installation procedures.

· Use of in-house systems and standard drawing office procedures for design processes.

· Good communicator telephone / email.

· Proven experience of working to deadlines and programme.

· ‘Can do’ attitude who can well under pressure.

· Willing to go above and beyond to achieve high level results

· Site surveying experience advantageous.

· Strong team mentality

Nice to Have

Experience in any of the following may set you apart:

· Relevant design / construction qualifications

· Experience in fall protection or secondary steelwork design

Location

This role is based from our Head Office in Sheffield. Flexible working from home can be discussed.

Interview Process

1. Application review

2. Interview to discuss experience and suitability

Benefits

Eurosafe offers a competitive salary, a pension scheme, private healthcare and opportunities for training and career development within a growing organisation amongst other perks & benefits.

Pay: £39,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance

Work Location: In person