Graduate Designer role
Full-time, permanent
Location: 5 days in High Wycombe
Recent graduate in design or architecture
Specific Duties:
* Prepare schematic and working drawings, primarily using CAD.
* Visit sites to ascertain site conditions, carry out surveys and attend design meetings as required.
* Prepare requests for information, query sheets as required and monitor replies.
* Produce drawing schedules, general arrangement and working drawings.
* Monitor own progress against contract programme and report progress on a weekly basis.
* Attend project handover meetings and compile a design brief for the project.
* Produce fabrication information in the form of schedules, cutting lists or component drawings as required to an agreed programme.
* Design review – revise and re-issue commented drawings.
* Undertake checking responsibilities for fabrication information generated by other design personnel.
* Represent OCL as appropriate at any meetings as required.
* Select external designers, structural engineers, consultants where relevant and issue letter of appointment.
* Take on responsibility for a proportion of the design office workload as agreed.
* Check all elements to a project including drawing schedules, general arrangement drawings, working drawings and fabrication information.
* Be aware of current project workload and project timings.
* Provide design and technical support for all other departments as required.
* Ensure that the clients are aware of their duties under the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations.
* Identify the significant health and safety hazards likely to be associated with the design and how it may be constructed and maintained.
* Consider the risks from hazards, which may arise as a result of the design being incorporated into the project and, if possible, alter the design to avoid the risk: or if this is not reasonably practicable to reduce it.
* Provide a design risk assessment to enable the planning supervisor and/or the principal contractor to prepare the relevant documentation required of them by the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations.
* Where necessary in the interests of health and safety, cooperate with any other designer involved in any other aspect of the project.
* Comply with BMS Design Procedures.