Aircraft Interior Designer

Citadel Completions - Lake Charles, LA

Full-time - Mid Level

Lake Charles, LA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The position involves leading design projects and managing the design process for interior projects, ensuring timely delivery and exceptional customer service. The role requires generating 2D and 3D models and drawings, creating graphical layouts, and fabricating marketing books. The candidate will provide quality documentation and presentations that reflect a VVIP/VIP level experience.

Responsibilities

• Establish artistic strategy, budgets and schedules for key project design.
• Estimate resources and hours necessary for all Interior projects.
• Develop current & new innovative strategies and design ideas to execute artistic material as needed.
• Generate 2D Floor Plans using our Design Connect System.
• Generate & Manage our 2D Library of Floor Plans, Components, and Assemblies using Dynamic Blocks.
• Generate 3D Models that can be converted to 'Design Elevations' with Material Callouts and Detail Views.
• Create Models that can be utilized to generate photorealistic images.
• Prepare and organize Design Packages that are easy to explain and understand by our Client(s).
• Manage work load and design process to ensure department objectives are met and projects are delivered timely.
• Interface with Suppliers to obtain technical data to create accurate models and details.
• Develop current & establish new accounts.
• Initiate & present design ideas to internal and external audiences; verbally, in writing & in sketch form.
• Generate layouts using Adobe InDesign, print and fabricate books for our Marketing team.
• Collaborate with Marketing to organize and maintain inventory of books.
• Keep Design Studio neat, organized, stocked with current industry samples.
• Flexible hours based around the specific client needs and to support design schedule.
• Acute attention to details.
• Customer Service / Humble Servant mindset.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design or in related fields.
• Minimum 3 years' Interior Industrial Design Experience.
• SolidWorks with surfacing, assembly and drafting experience.
• Adobe Creative Suites graphic design and layouts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with AutoCAD 2D layouts and block creation.
• Experience generating 2D floor plans.
• 3D modeling experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of materials used for VVIP/VIP aircraft interiors.
• Familiar with aircraft terminology.
• Creating and fostering client relationships.
• Effectively communicating ideas to internal and external audiences in verbal, written and/or sketch form.