Job Description
Role: CAD Designer
Company: Cox Workshops Ltd
Location: London N17
Hours:40 hrs per week
Cox London are designers and makers of unique sculptural lighting, furniture, and artworks of the highest calibre. We are commissioned by celebrated interior decorators, collectors and discerning private individuals worldwide. By nurturing, inspiring and enriching our relationships with our artisan craftspeople, our clients, the communities we support and our partners, our goal is to help shape remarkable interior beauty.
Cox London seeks to propagate a remarkable interior beauty in the world by unlocking The Nature Within every piece, object, and space – through the eye of the sculptor, the hand of the artisan and the integrity of form, material, and finish. The Nature Within – seeks out the purity, provenance, source and stewarding of the finest natural materials - stone, wood, ore, precious metals, fabrics, glass, ceramics - that give life to every object and interior.
Your mission as CAD Designer is to uphold this vision by ensuring the materials and processes utilised are drawn accurately and efficiently to ensure best proposals and designs, guaranteeing exceptional quality and worth of investment for the company clients. Reporting to the Senior CAD Designer, you will be expected to design company products to the required standards maintaining excellent quality and efficiency for product manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities Include
· A comprehensive understanding of materials and processes utilized by the company is essential alongside being able to interpret site dimensions and requirements.
· Excellent rapport with all stakeholders in the business both in-house, and externally to maintain and develop positive and professional working relationships.
· An eye for detail, finish and form and be able to maintain efficient safe database administration.
· Ability to produce technical manufacture drawings and client proposal drawings/imagery.
· Manufacturing knowledge, specifically of Cox processes such as lighting manufacture and fabrication of metal furniture using materials such as glass, bronze, brass and steel and stone.
· Create custom drawings from the standard product range and develop bespoke designs or new products.
· Produce comprehensive product drawings for manufacturing.
· Preparation of client drawings and interpret client architectural plans.
· Checking approved prototypes against technical manufacturing drawings.
· Drafting of accurate and detailed installation guides.
· Liaise with manufacturing department to ensure client briefs and expectations are fulfilled and understood.
· Maintain company design database.
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Skills and Behaviours (Essential)
· Analytical, problem solving and time management skills.
· Ability to meet deadlines.
· Fluent spoken and written English, with excellent communication and presentation skills.
· Ability to produce detailed reports to help determine whether or not contracts for customisation of company designs & bespoke projects are awarded or company products are manufactured.
· Flexible and a can-do positive attitude.
· An understanding of the importance of discretion.
· Smart, calm, kind, professional and diligent.
· Demonstrates passion and imagination
Knowledge and Experience
· Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, including: Auto CAD, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, Inventor Professional.
· Rendering: Blender, Keyshot, or similar.
· Adobe Creative Cloud, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator.
· Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook.
· Previous experience in a similar role.
Qualifications (desirable)
· BA(Hons) Product Design, Architecture or comparable.