Junior Interior Designer
MPA
Date: 1 day ago
City: Sydney, New South Wales
Contract type: Full time
We specialise in building workplaces, covering fitouts and refurbishments in prime CBD locations. Work with us to transform spaces into something more. Something better.
Bring your commercial office interior fitout and refurbishment experience to the leader in this field.
About Us
At MPA, our team of approachable experts is the kind that people love working with. Great at communicating and keeping people up to date every step of the way, we come to every project with an open mind, a good dose of curiosity and a genuine passion for perfecting even the smallest of details. In short, we live and breathe what we do.
For over 25 years, we've been committed to turning big ambitions into reality. Today, our team of over 140 people specialise in building innovative, progressive workplaces. We focus on transforming work into something more, encompassing the entire ecosystem of modern work. Our work extends beyond commercial spaces to include health, wellness, retail, hospitality and education. As an award-winning workplace specialist, our projects include small interior enhancement to large-scale, high-end multi-million-dollar projects.
With a growing team and an exciting line-up of projects coming up, we are looking for a Junior Interior Designer to join the MPA team.
The Opportunity
The Design team is a collective of passionate designers, strategists, and problem-solvers who live and breathe design. We are seeking a Junior Interior Designer who shares our passion, our commitment to excellence, and our unwavering belief in the power of design to influence, inspire, and impact.
Your Role
As a Junior Interior Designer at MPA, you will work with the Design team to inspire and create. You'll support and collaborate with like-minded professionals and contribute to projects that leave a lasting mark on the design landscape.
You will assist the Design team endeavouring to meet time, cost and quality outcomes as well as client expectations. You will use your strong design appreciation to support innovation through design documentation using Archicad 27 and presentation preparation using Adobe Suite Indesign. Experience using these systems will be advantageous, but the successful candidate will be provided training if required.
You will be involved in finishes sample procurement, design library upkeep, and joining client meetings to take briefs, present designs, and guide showroom visits. Your strong communication skills will be displayed in your correspondence with suppliers, consultants, sub-contractors & internal stakeholders as you provide support for compliance and design.
Assisting with client design reviews, you will help to identify risks and opportunities linked to budget, safety, and sustainability. By reviewing project design options, you will learn to identify opportunities, research material options, and create design options in line with clients' budget and design intent.
You will have the opportunity to hone your skills with active on-the-job training and technical development workshops to build you into a strong Interior Designer, leading your own projects.
About You
As a passionate, driven, design professional, you are keen to join a supportive and innovative team to excel your early design career. You hold tertiary qualifications in Interior Design, Architecture, or similar (relevant to commercial fit out design) and have 1 - 3 years' experience in design management. The ideal candidate has working knowledge of the National Construction Code (Building Code of Australia), Australian Building Standards, and Disability Codes; Greenstar accreditation is advantageous as is a passion for environmental sustainability.
With excellent communication skills written & oral, you are collaborative and team focused with a strong commitment to quality and innovation. You have great problem-solving and critical thinking skills and take a solutions-based approach, identifying risks early to develop a range of solutions.
You can effectively plan and prioritise tasks and deliverables, adapting to changing requirements, continually collaborating with internal and external stakeholders with confidence, honesty and clarity.
What We Offer
Bringing life to our workplace means creating an environment for people to grow, connect and expand their career. One where people have every opportunity to thrive and are properly recognised for their achievements. Where taking time out for some fun is always a good idea. Because work should be as enjoyable as it is rewarding.
Benefits
We're proud to say that when you join us, you're joining a great place to work, with industry leading engagement and benefits to enhance your career, including:
Note to recruitment agencies: We have preferred recruitment partners in place and therefore are unable to accept speculative enquiries.
Bring your commercial office interior fitout and refurbishment experience to the leader in this field.
About Us
At MPA, our team of approachable experts is the kind that people love working with. Great at communicating and keeping people up to date every step of the way, we come to every project with an open mind, a good dose of curiosity and a genuine passion for perfecting even the smallest of details. In short, we live and breathe what we do.
For over 25 years, we've been committed to turning big ambitions into reality. Today, our team of over 140 people specialise in building innovative, progressive workplaces. We focus on transforming work into something more, encompassing the entire ecosystem of modern work. Our work extends beyond commercial spaces to include health, wellness, retail, hospitality and education. As an award-winning workplace specialist, our projects include small interior enhancement to large-scale, high-end multi-million-dollar projects.
With a growing team and an exciting line-up of projects coming up, we are looking for a Junior Interior Designer to join the MPA team.
The Opportunity
The Design team is a collective of passionate designers, strategists, and problem-solvers who live and breathe design. We are seeking a Junior Interior Designer who shares our passion, our commitment to excellence, and our unwavering belief in the power of design to influence, inspire, and impact.
Your Role
As a Junior Interior Designer at MPA, you will work with the Design team to inspire and create. You'll support and collaborate with like-minded professionals and contribute to projects that leave a lasting mark on the design landscape.
You will assist the Design team endeavouring to meet time, cost and quality outcomes as well as client expectations. You will use your strong design appreciation to support innovation through design documentation using Archicad 27 and presentation preparation using Adobe Suite Indesign. Experience using these systems will be advantageous, but the successful candidate will be provided training if required.
You will be involved in finishes sample procurement, design library upkeep, and joining client meetings to take briefs, present designs, and guide showroom visits. Your strong communication skills will be displayed in your correspondence with suppliers, consultants, sub-contractors & internal stakeholders as you provide support for compliance and design.
Assisting with client design reviews, you will help to identify risks and opportunities linked to budget, safety, and sustainability. By reviewing project design options, you will learn to identify opportunities, research material options, and create design options in line with clients' budget and design intent.
You will have the opportunity to hone your skills with active on-the-job training and technical development workshops to build you into a strong Interior Designer, leading your own projects.
About You
As a passionate, driven, design professional, you are keen to join a supportive and innovative team to excel your early design career. You hold tertiary qualifications in Interior Design, Architecture, or similar (relevant to commercial fit out design) and have 1 - 3 years' experience in design management. The ideal candidate has working knowledge of the National Construction Code (Building Code of Australia), Australian Building Standards, and Disability Codes; Greenstar accreditation is advantageous as is a passion for environmental sustainability.
With excellent communication skills written & oral, you are collaborative and team focused with a strong commitment to quality and innovation. You have great problem-solving and critical thinking skills and take a solutions-based approach, identifying risks early to develop a range of solutions.
You can effectively plan and prioritise tasks and deliverables, adapting to changing requirements, continually collaborating with internal and external stakeholders with confidence, honesty and clarity.
What We Offer
Bringing life to our workplace means creating an environment for people to grow, connect and expand their career. One where people have every opportunity to thrive and are properly recognised for their achievements. Where taking time out for some fun is always a good idea. Because work should be as enjoyable as it is rewarding.
Benefits
We're proud to say that when you join us, you're joining a great place to work, with industry leading engagement and benefits to enhance your career, including:
- Additional leave days on top of annual leave entitlements.
- Wellbeing programs, including a $295 annual Wellbeing voucher to use how you choose, Health and Life Coaches, mental health support and fitness activities.
- Great social events to build connections with clients, your colleagues and subcontractors.
- Share in our business' success with generous rewards as part of MPA Leadership Excellence scheme.
Note to recruitment agencies: We have preferred recruitment partners in place and therefore are unable to accept speculative enquiries.
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