Designer, Project Manager
The position: An experienced Designer, who has worked on the sales sides as well as the project management side, and appreciates a detail oriented work place. You must have a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
We are: Urban Homecraft a Brooklyn based design-build company specializing in built-in furniture. Occasionally working on freestanding furniture and sometimes working as a general contractor. We have been in Business for 17 years, and have developed a reputation for our client management. We work directly with homeowners, on rare occasions we will work with Designers and Architects.
Where: Our offices are located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, just 1 floor up from our fabrication studio.
Our typical projects: We work on projects located in New York City, mostly in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They will range in size from 10K (a simple Bookcase) to 150K (a kitchen or larger apartment build-out)
Our work flow: You will speak with prospective clients on the phone and offer estimates. If our work is with-in their budget we will do a site meeting at the client's home in order to take a survey and send a quote. If they move ahead with the project you will send over a contract and begin on a schematic design. After follow-up phone meetings and revisions a final approved design will be drawn up for site confirmation and fabrication. You will work with the fabrication team throughout the process and arrange for the installation. Once we are working on site (2-10 days) you will keep the client updated on progress and expectations.
Your team: Our design team works independently on projects but consults each other with issues that arise as well as always improving our process. In the shop we have about 10 people, specialists and generalists who will bring your designs into being.
Work load: Typically you will speak with a few prospective clients a week, visit a couple of homes a week and be working on around 10 projects at a time that are somewhere between schematic design and installation. As a company we install one or two projects a week. New work tends to ebb and flow, and so too do our needs when it comes to focusing on new sales verses other parts of the process. Our designers work about 40-45hrs a week and do not bring work home.
Software: We design in Sketch-up and use V-ray and Photoshop for rendering. The fabrication team will then use e-cabinets for CNC work.