Kitchen Designer

**Chisholm Design - Kitchen Designer Role Description**

**About Chisholm Design**

We create beautiful, bespoke kitchens, transforming these spaces to bring a real sense of heart to our client’s homes.

Blending form and function, our bespoke designs not only deliver the wow factor, they are also thoughtfully designed to allow our clients to live, cook and entertain with ease.

We provide a highly personalised, professional and attentive design service, tailoring our services to each client’s individual requirements. We pride ourselves on our thoroughness, exacting standards and attention to detail throughout our engagement.

**Purpose of role**

This role supports the Design Director in all aspects of client consultation, producing designs and design proposals and specifying/ordering the required cabinetry, appliances, worktops etc. You will support the Design Director in client consultations, produce designs, prepare client proposals and produce quotations. You may also be asked to research appliances, worktops etc and may also be asked to help out across other business areas e.g. marketing.

**Key tasks**
- Support the Design Director during initial client consultations.
- Draw up draft designs in our CAD software (Autokitchen).
- Produce client quotations.
- Produce client proposals.
- Specify appliances, worktops, handles etc as required.
- Communicate as needed with clients to move the project forward and secure new orders.
- Provide additional support to the business including marketing support, social media content etc.
- General administrative support as required.

**Information about the role**
- Duration of contract: permanent.
- Core business hours are 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday. We don’t work at weekends as a rule, but you might be asked to support the occasional design exhibition/show over part of a weekend.
- Workplace: at our design studio at Greenhills Estate, Tilford Road, Tilford, Surrey, GU10 2DZ.

**Pay and benefits**
- Holiday: you will be entitled to 20 working days holiday per year, plus Bank Holidays. Your holiday entitlement will increase by 1 day per year for every full year with the company, up to a maximum of 25 days.
- Regular (we aim for monthly) development days, including trips to suppliers and trade shows.
- Team Christmas lunch and summer BBQ.

**Training**

We will provide on-the-job training as required. This would include, as a minimum, training to use our Autokitchen CAD software and on the preparation of quotations and design proposals.

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Essential**:

- A minimum of 2 ‘A’ Levels or equivalent vocational qualification.
- A minimum of 12 months experience in a similar kitchen design role.
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
- Experience of using Office-type software including Word, Powerpoint and Excel (or equivalents).
- An enthusiastic attitude and a willingness to get stuck in

**Desirable**
- A degree or equivalent level qualification.
- A formal qualification in design, architecture or construction.

**Personal Qualities**

The successful applicant will be an enthusiastic, reliable team member, passionate about kitchen design and willing to learn. You will be creative, with an eye for great design, blending form and function, whilst also able to pay attention to detail and to do the more mundane tasks as needed.

As part of a small team, you will be willing to pick up additional tasks and be a team player. You will have great inter
- personal skills, able to develop and sustain relationships both within the business and also with clients, tradesmen and suppliers. You will also be able to bring your own ideas to the business, to help develop and improve what we do and how we do it. As the business grows, there may be opportunities to take on more responsibilities.

You’ll also be willing to learn and develop - every day is a learning day and we are looking for team members who share that outlook.

**The team that you’ll be joining**

We are a small, but growing team and we have tried hard to foster a friendly, creative and supportive environment, one in which we value people’s ideas and input and in which helping our team to learn, develop and grow is important.

We believe in treating people like adults and so we don’t “clock watch”. If you need to leave a bit early or if the sun is shining and you’d like to get some fresh air, that’s fine by us (the design studio is in a fabulous rural setting and there are some great walks around the estate). All we ask for in return is a similar degree of flexibility and a willingness to work a bit longer if needed to meet a deadline.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 40 per week

**Salary**: From £24,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Farnham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work