Trainee Stone Sculpture Technician - Luxury Design Brand. Entry Level - 17495 Didcot, England
Job description
Do you have an interest in Art & Design and working in a creative environment?
Do you have a good visual eye looking for a role where you can learn new skills, develop, and really get stuck into your work?
Are you ready to learn a skill and a trade?
Want to create beautiful hand-crafted pieces for the word’s luxury market?
Yes? Then come and join this British multi-award-winning, internationally renowned designers of luxurious, hand-crafted sculptures, whose works have graced some of the world’s most prestigious addresses – from British institutions such as Windsor Castle and Eton to destinations further afield in Asia, Australia, Europe and the USA.
Role info:
Trainee Stone Sculpture Technician
Aston Upthorpe, Oxon
£21,450 - £23,400
Plus Benefits
Full-time Options: Compressed week - 6am - 4pm Mon - Thursday / Full Week - 8am - 4pm Mon - Fri
Product / Service: Multi-award-winning, internationally renowned designers of luxurious, hand-crafted sculptures
Clients Portfolio: Public Spaces, Luxury Developments, Hotels and Private Gardens
Pedigree: London Design Awards 2022 (Gold), twice Recipient of ‘The Queen’s Award for International Trade.
Highlights: Three pieces unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and one by HRH Prince Charles.
Who we are:
David Harber Ltd is an internationally renowned, family-owned business based in Oxfordshire. We are a small but established team, where every individual plays their part in bringing David’s creations to life and offering the very best service to its highly affluent audience of private customers, interior and garden designers, art consultants and property developers.
A highlight of David’s career was having three of his pieces unveiled by Her Majesty The Queen, and one by HRH Prince Charles.
The Trainee Stone Sculpture Technician role:
As Sculpture Technician your mission is to become multi-skilled across several key tasks within the stone (Dark Planet) and finishing team, helping where required.
The focus is to create our pebble spherical sculptures which we call The Dark Planet described above and learning the distinctive processes to create them.
Reporting to the Stone and Finishing Team Leader, you will also become involved in working on the finishing stages of our works which will involve shot-blasting, patination, finishing and Crating. Our Finishing team touches every sculpture before it leaves the site ensuring that we excel our customers expectations again and again.
Key Responsibilities:
+ Creating our stone range of sculptures including selecting pebble, slate or other and resin bonding them into position.
+ Shot blasting of our fabricated sculptures prior to finishing to achieve the high levels of quality that our sculptures are known for
+ Patination of our bronze, Brass and Copper sculptures
+ Taping and Un-taping of our polished sculptures
+ Finishing off every David Harber Sculpture
+ Crating of our export pieces
+ Installation assistance
+ Members of the stone and finishing team can be asked to help anywhere in the business and full flexibility to do so is a key requirement of any person joining our small team to ensure we are successful in meeting the high expectations of our valued customers.
About you:
We are looking to offer the right candidate a golden opportunity to become a stone artisan and the chance to build up a variety of skills while working in luxury manufacturing.
We want someone who wants to embrace the opportunity and is not afraid to put in a hard day's work. You be comfortable performing repetitive tasks to whilst keeping a close eye on the detail/
To be successful in this role you will need:
+ An interest in a creative environment with a good visual eye.
+ Preferably completed a Design/ Art course
+ Good attention to detail is vital to this role
+ Good health due to the physical nature of work and amount of manual handling required
+ Quick learner
+ Able to follow processes and complete necessary paperwork.
+ Team player who works effectively with colleagues across all functions
+ Demonstrates energy and positive attitude.
+ Strong desire to make a difference and maintain an ordered environment.
What’s on offer:
+ 22 days holiday rising to 28 days
+ Private healthcare
+ 4% employee and 4% employer pension scheme
+ Generous discretionary annual bonus.
Sounds like a good fit? Apply here for a fast-track path to our Leadership Team.
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If you have any pre-application questions please contact us first quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR.
