Senior Designer (S)

Duties/Responsibilities

• Generate effective design solutions that accurately capture the client’s vision, operational needs, and functional requirements.
• Generate design sales by actively seeking new opportunities and by nurturing existing clients.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with architects, operations teams, management companies, and end-users to drive repeat business and long-term partnerships.
• Collaborate with specialty manufacturers and fabricators throughout all phases of the design process.
• Work closely with the internal technical support team to ensure accurate construction documentation, drawings, and specifications.
• Cookordinate and interface with architectural, design, and engineering teams to support successful project execution.
• Cookordinate detailed project specifications and recommend the company’s preferred manufacturers where appropriate.
• Assist in maintaining and improving department standards and processes.
• Grow industry knowledge through Avanti sponsored training.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with internal teams and customers while maintaining a high level of professionalism.
• Proven capacity to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment while delivering consistent, high-quality results.
• Great attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational skills.

Education/Experience

• Five years design experience leading foodservice design projects.
• Knowledge of industry standard software required to perform job duties.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate or bachelor’s degree in business preferred.

Physical Demands

• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
• Hand dexterity and eye and hand coordination is critical.
• Lifting. Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• Sitting. Must be able to sit for long periods of time, but at least 50% of the time.
• Standing. Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
• Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one workstation to another.