Major Function
Duties include but not limited to:
- Attend meetings with Clients and Architects to discuss design details
- Provide design support for projects across Inhabit offices
- Be pro-actively involved in design for projects
- Sketch details to develop ideas and to explain concepts
- Produce drawings, specifications and reports and coordinate the work of others as required
- Review contractor’s submissions and interface with the Client and site engineers for technical queries
- Review and comment on sub-contractor’s shop drawings & structural calculations, BD submission drawings, fabrication drawings & material submission
- Carry out factory fabrication inspections, PMU test inspections, tempered glass heat soak tests, stone cladding inspections etc.. and prepare associated technical and site inspection reports
- Meet and report regularly to the site based client engineering team
- Provide training to other members of the team
- Carry out research on potential facade materials and share knowledge and update technical library
- Evaluate opportunities for improved efficiencies and effectiveness in consultation with management including identifying, developing and implementing standards, systems, tools and processes to support continuous improvement within the business
- Take an active interest in the other disciplines (Lighting, Acoustics, Building Physics, Logistics etc..) in order to further develop your specialist skills
Project Operation / Management
You shall be responsible for efficient and profitable completion of all projects and tasks under your control whilst maintaining excellent technical standards and client satisfaction.
Detailed responsibilities and/or targets include:
- Cost planning and output required to meet project budgets
- Managing clients to secure work, marketing and fee proposals
- Allocation and management of time to suit programs and project budgets
- Ensure projects are completed on-time and without cost overrun
- Ensure high technical standing on the project such that client complaints do not arise
Customer / Client Service
You shall continually strengthen client loyalty and gain repeat business by providing high quality service and creative (‘Leading Edge’) solutions to clients by way of:
- Communicate with clients to establish their needs and maintain a dialogue throughout the project
- Maintain an exceptional favourable record in client response to timeliness and quality of work provided
- Continually aim for repeat business from all clients in contact with Inhabit
Marketing and Business Development
You shall actively participate in the marketing of the practice as a multi-disciplined engineering company and shall achieve agreed targets in all aspects of practice development, including:
- Assist in the preparation of project proposals including, where necessary, co-ordination of inputs from other disciplines (Acoustics, Lighting, Building Physics/ESD, Logistics etc...).
- Conduct presentations of proposals for prospective clients and/or projects
- Complete project sheets for each project undertaken by and compliance with project and office QA procedures
- Maintain regular contact with existing or prospective clients for establishing potential future work
- Active participation in a broad range of client-focused functions / commit to enhance the professional image of Inhabit
Technical Quality Control
You shall assume full responsibility for work quality undertaken and a senior Peer Review/Checking Role on projects, including:
- Identification of technically complex projects and problems that require high level input
- Provision of concept design, peer review and checking services on international projects to assist in maintaining high standards
- Taking necessary action to prevent the occurrence of design documentation and/or quality system non-conformity
- Ensure all project documentation is maintained to a level as required by Inhabits’ QA system
- Endorse and facilitate the quality management system (QMS) and the Business’s commitment to quality
Mentoring, Training and Personal Growth
- Be responsible for assisting in the professional and technical development of junior staff and assisting in the technical development of Inhabit
- Grow and develop in professionalism and job effectiveness through reading Inhabits’ technical notes and contributing to the development and improvement of the technical notes on an active basis
- Participate in educational programs and skill-based training as required
- Coordinate, participate and actively contribute to design workshops, where facade solutions are explored and determined. Workshops may be with architects, suppliers and fellow professionals and with the facade industry
- Ensure that personal goals are set and targeted for personal development
