Truss Designer

Location: Remote and/or Sandwich, Kent
Hours of Work: 44 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: Competitive

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced designer to join our Company as a Truss Designer either based at our factory in the medieval town of Sandwich, Kent or working remotely from home.

You will be reporting to the Design Manager designing various Trusses from initial enquiry to build completion. You will be a good communicator, able to use your customer relation skills to provide customers with quotations, secure orders, navigate the approval process and producing construction issue layouts whilst maintaining a presence for customer throughout the project lifespan. If you are working remotely there may be occasions where you are required to come to the office.

Responsibilities

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Driven and motivated, but able to remain calm in pressure situations.
• Able to plan and prioritise your workload according to customer and business needs.
• Detail focussed, able to determine and achieve the correct level of required detail whilst also working to deadlines.
• Experienced designer with intricate knowledge of roof truss design and relevant practices.
• Good appreciation and understanding of factory production and on-site installation processes, showing consideration towards both during design process.
• Proficient user of specialist roof truss design software, (ideally MiTek Pamir), though training can be provided for the right candidate.

What do we offer?

Some of the highlights of the fantastic benefits and rewards you can expect include:

• Training opportunities.
• 28 days holiday per year (inclusive of standard bank holidays).
• 1 extra day’s holiday every year for 5 years upon completion of 3 years’ service.