Graphic Designer Bristol, England
Job description
This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the sector’s most high-performing marketing teams, helping to shape our overall internal and external approach to communications, as well as playing a significant role in the delivery of our bids.
Please submit your CV and portfolio (maximum file size 2MB) in your application. If your portfolio exceeds our file limit, please include a link to your portfolio using a file sharing technology or a website-hosted portfolio.
About the role
You will be sufficiently confident to work independently and hit the ground running, but will also on occasions collaborate with two highly experienced graphic designers within the team. We value original thinking and a creative touch, whilst adopting the protective role of custodian of the brand – superhero cloaks are optional.
This will be a dual role, working within the marketing department, whilst also providing support in bid submissions. Your keen eye for detail and the ability to work methodically under pressure to meet deadlines will see you thrive in this environment.
So, what will you be responsible for?
It’s fast-paced at Hydrock and sometimes it’s hard to predict what’s coming next, but key things are:
- Responding to design briefs, determining requirements and delivering compelling marketing content in a variety of digital formats
- Working closely with our in-house content writers to produce the final design
- Working equally closely with our bids team to deliver exemplar bid submissions against defined timescales
- Conceptualise visuals based on requirements
- Develop illustrations, logos, and other designs that are visually appealing
- Joining the rest of the super-heroes in becoming a custodian of the brand
You will be supported by our Senior Graphic Designer and the rest of our existing, centrally-based marketing team in the performance of your role.
What skills and attributes are we looking for?
We will want you to be a trusted and respected member of the team, and this means your core skills will include:
- Creativity – we embrace new ideas and constantly seek to elevate the quality of our communications
- Custodian of the brand – we believe that creativity and brand discipline needn’t be mutually exclusive and we have plenty of examples to prove it.
- Tenacity and curiosity – we love nothing more than providing a good brief, but sometimes you need to fill in the last few blanks with a touch of flair.
- Ability to communicate well and build trusted relationships, internally within the marketing team and across all levels of the business
- A keen eye for aesthetics and detail – can you spot a typo or wring typeface from across the room?
- Excellent time management skills – it’s fast paced here, so the ability to prioritise and keep projects moving will be key to succeeding in this role, but we’re a great team and we’ve got your back!
- IT skills – Competency in InDesign and PowerPoint is an absolute must, use of Illustrator, Photoshop, SharePoint and website CMS is also valuable. If you happen to have experience using e-marketing tools such as HubSpot, it would be another feather in your cap.
- Video editing skills would be fantastic to have (desirable, not essential).
- We expect you will typically have 2-3+ years of experience as a graphic designer, enough to hit the ground running. You may have a university degree, but we are guided more by your enthusiasm, experience and originality. We want your portfolio to knock our socks off.
Above all else, we want someone who will fit in with our team. Critically, we also want you to enjoy the role and to feel you’re contributing to the growth of our business UK-wide.
What's great about Hydrock 'in a nutshell'
We are a British-owned integrated multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.
From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs. Through the path we are on to delivering a green future, the result is something that everyone can be proud of.
Our welcoming and friendly culture is something we are proud of and has gained us recognition with 9 consecutive years in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Check out some of our incredible projects which have been awarded: 2022 Net Zero Award for Bay Technology Centre, Integration and Collaborative Working Award for YGG Tan-y-Lan primary school, The Deaf Academy awarded for its Universal Design at the 2022 Civic Trust Awards and Bristol’s iconic waterfront Wapping Wharf Living making a double win at the Bristol Property Awards!
To top off, here’s our 2022 wrap up video!
What we can offer you:
- Inspiring and supportive colleagues
- Reward for progression and hard work
- An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills
- Competitive starting salary
- Excellent health benefits 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
- An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!)
- An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday)
- A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme
- Our biggest event of the year: Annual Challenge Day!
A place to feel included
We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim.
We consider all application individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the protected characteristics. We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask with are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.
Looking for the next steps?
Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application’s been reviewed.
If shortlisted, a member of our Recruitment Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock.
If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices.
For the latest updates and news, connect with us on our LinkedIn page!
