Junior Designer Sunbury, England
Job description
Homeplay are a multi award-winning luxury home technology integrator and we’re looking for a Junior Designer (Residential Technology) to join our team.
Working under our Head of Design, and with support from the rest of our team, you’ll be helping us with the increased workload generated by our award-winning Home Technology Experience Centre in Sunbury on Thames.
Your day will be fast moving and varied, assisting the designers with load schedules, patch panel layouts, engraving schedules, checking pricing on designs and much, much more.
In time as you gain experience you’ll be able to move on to system schematics, cinema design, acoustic design and all kinds of other challenging areas, working towards your CEDIA ESC-D qualification.
Below is a list of desirable (but not essential) skills, however the most important thing is that you’re smart, curious, keen to learn, hardworking and have an aptitude for computer aided design software.
Desirable Skills:
- 2D and 3D AutoCAD
- Experience in interior architecture
- Excellent organisational and time management skills – must be able to balance multiple projects in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
- Experience in audio/visual systems
- Experience in lighting design
- D-Tools System Integrator
- Sketchup
- Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
About You:
- A degree or excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A ‘can-do’ attitude and keen to figure out problems on your own
- Fascinated by technology
- Curious and keen to learn
- Confident talking to all kinds of people, regardless of their age/status
- Appreciative of a good debate, even with your boss
- Pedantic about details, accuracy and organisation
- More interested in fixing problems than figuring out who’s to blame
- Paid for your own stuff through a part time job as a teenager
- Want to work for a David rather than a Goliath
- Looking for solutions, not problems
About the Job:
You’ll be based at our design studio in Sunbury-on-Thames, which is part of our award winning Home Technology Experience Centre.
Working exclusively in the high-end residential sector on some truly amazing properties, you’ll be working within an exciting and broad range of disciplines including home cinema and media rooms, lighting design and control, audio/visual systems, security systems, furniture design and much more.
About Us:
- Obsessed about delivering amazing customer service
- Focussed on designing beautiful home technology solutions that are simple and reliable to use
- Only as good as our last project
- Believe systems, discipline and repetition are the key to quality
- Work like crazy to create raving fans of our business
- Pleased to invest in the tools and training necessary to help us do the best job we can
- Making sure we have fun while we’re doing all of the above!
If this sounds like a role and a culture that you will thrive in, then please email your CV with a cover letter and your answers to the following three questions:
- What companies do you admire and why?
- What will your old boss say about you?
- Apple or Android?
IMPORTANT!!!
Please note your application will not be reviewed without a cover letter and answers to these questions. However, we promise that if you take the time to write a cover letter and answer these questions, we’ll take the time to give you feedback about your application.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Graduate
Salary: £21,000.00-£28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Sunbury: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Education:
- Bachelor's (required)
Experience:
- Design Engineer: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Junior Design Engineer 2023
