Senior Designer – Indianapolis

RJE has an opening for a Senior Designer for our Indianapolis office. As a Senior Designer, your responsibility will be to provide design and front-end project management support for large scale projects and specific high-profile customers. The senior designer will work in tandem with the sales person and may even replace the sales person in specific tasks.

Tasks and responsibilities include:

• Performs standard design tasks
• Gathers programming information on assigned projects
• Generates typicals for budgeting
• Participates in product evaluation and selection
• Develop furniture floorplan, specifications, and finish form for approvals
• Provide installation packet
• Follows spec check process
• Provides collateral materials for bid or proposal responses
• Assists with generation of punchlist specifications
• Provides design fee options and maintains timesheets

• Replace the sales person on certain predetermined tasks on a per project basis
• Typical specification with client
• Client presentations
• Punch walk-thru
• Site visits
• Create project process documents including timelines, calendars, quote forms, etc.

• Adheres to Design Standards and Company Policies
• Follows standards established for saving and naming files, drawings, specifying, and other policies and standards
• Follows company policies and procedures

• Leads design department when Design Director is out of the office
• Assigns new projects
• Delegates tasks
• Assigns work for interns

• Helps mentor and train designers
• Assist with spec training
• Offer advice and tips on how to deal with certain design challenges

• Works directly with Design Director to find inefficiencies and process issues
• Helps create and train staff on new processes
• Helps set up and maintain AutoCAD tools, page layouts, etc
• Helps maintain internal RJE design databases

Requirements:

• Must have a degree in Interior or Architectural Design
• Must have 3-5 years of experience in furniture/office/space planning
• Ability to quickly assess customer needs and develop product strategies/solutions
• Ability to present solutions to customers
• Dealership or manufacturer experience preferred

Please email Kim Dutkosky at kdutkosky@RJE-bi.com if interested in applying.

Fall Design Intern – Indianapolis

RJE has an opening for a Design Intern at our Indianapolis location. Our design interns spend a minimum of three days a week (no fewer than 12 hours per week) learning about the technical skillset required to work within the workplace solutions industry.

During the internship, the student will:

• Learn how to specify furniture using AutoCAD and 2020 CAP
• Learn how to render using Visual Impressions
• Create bid responses
• Create technical specification sheets
• Manage the library
• Take part in technical training sessions
• Participate on sales calls
• Participate in vendor meetings and training sessions

Hours are flexible to accommodate the student’s school schedule. Please email Kim Dutkosky at kdutkosky@RJE-bi.com if interested in applying.