Graduate/ Junior Designer Role

Location: 5 days in High Wycombe

Permanent basis

You will report directly to the Divisional Design Director, and your day to day responsibilities will include:

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.
Any other reasonable duties given to you.

Please could you apply to be considered for this excellent opportunity, or contact Paige Camies at the Fawkes & Reece office for more information.

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