Total 2 Art / Design / Entertainment job vacancies in Shaftesbury, Dorset

Design Manager
Verwood, Dorset (with travel for site visits and some remote working options after probation)

About Us

We are Modulek, a leading provider of modular buildings. Serving a broad client base, including the education, sports and leisure, health and MOD sectors, we offer a truly permanent, cost-effective and fast alternative to traditional construction.

Using our industry-leading expertise, built up over the last 25 years, we offer buildings to suit almost any layout and design and ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to our clients’ requirements.

As we continue to grow, we’re now seeking a Design Manager to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- Salary of up to £60,500 DOE
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus Bank Holidays
- Government NEST auto-enrolment Pension Scheme
- Fuel allowance
- Laptop and company phone or phone allowance
- 5 days CSP and then statutory sick pay
- Christmas company shutdown
- Free parking on site

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced design professional from a contractor background with expertise in AutoCAD to join our collaborative and innovative organisation.

You’ll have the chance to enhance your design expertise across multiple sectors while bringing creative, cost-effective solutions to life within a team-oriented environment where everyone works together to achieve brilliant results.

So, if you’re ready to drive sustainable and innovative design practices that make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you!

The Role

As a Design Manager, you will manage the design process for a variety of construction projects to achieve on-time, on-budget results.

Leading the project design phase, you will provide technical support and advise on design issues, maintain compliance with regulations and support the Commercial Department in identifying potential returns from design changes.

You’ll also oversee Health & Safety principles in design, fire safety plans, building control compliance and sustainability standards.

Additionally, you will:

- Ensure successful project delivery from estimation to handover
- Conduct site assessments and review topographical surveys, drainage and structural calculations
- Manage project value engineering and site setup plans
- Assist Contract and Site Managers with design and interface challenges

Top Goals for the first year:

- Integrating into the Modulek team
- Positive client relationships
- Successful delivery of a >£1 million project
- Meeting deadlines
- GP project performance linked to design value engineering and/or successful ‘right first time’ design
- Client satisfaction survey feedback

About You

To be considered as our Design Manager, you will need:

- Experience in design management for a contractor
- Experience working on several projects simultaneously
- Experience using AutoCAD
- Knowledge of SMART Waste, BREEAM and building regulations
- An understanding of NHBC standards
- Contract awareness
- An architecture or construction related degree or equivalent qualification
- A full, valid driving licence

Personal Qualities

You tend to have a clear, well-thought-out vision and plan of what you want to achieve and will drive for that to be accomplished with persistence, conviction, determination and logic. You will tend to be rational and want to bring everyone along with consensus although achievement of the goal will probably take precedence over the group’s sensitivities. You are probably a self-directed, logical and methodical individual who wants to take responsibility and get things completed correctly and on time. You enjoy leadership responsibilities and can be direct when expressing your views while adhering to the most accepted social norms. You can show great determination even in the face of strong adversity. You appear calm, composed and unemotional under pressure most of the time. You have high levels of self-control with a strong drive to fit in with group norms. You typically set high personal standards for yourself and expect high standards from others. When people work willingly and successfully, you will be loud in their praise. You strive for self-improvement and prefer things neat, tidy and organised.

Other organisations may call this role Construction Design Manager, Design Project Manager, Construction Design Project Manager, or Technical Design Manager.

Webrecruit and Modulek are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re ready for a new and exciting challenge as a Design Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Product Photographer

Job Location: Poole, Dorset (nr Fleetsbridge)
Job Type: Initial 6-month contract direct with the company (could go longer)
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 DOE
Hours: 32 hours per week - Monday – Thursday 8am – 5pm
Benefits:

• 32 hour working week!!!!
• Up to 31 days holiday to start including bank holidays, increasing to 36 days with service and the option to buy 4 days additional holiday every year
• Free car parking
• Various discounts available for shopping / cinema / gyms etc.
• Life assurance
• Fun, modern and friendly working environment
• Excellent training
• Regular company team building events

We are recruiting for a Product Photographer to join a leading decorative homeware manufacturer who supply directly to businesses and consumers all around the UK.

This is an initial 6-month contract directly with the company which could be potentially be extended.

Working closely with the Creative Director and Studio Manager, you will be working in the Poole studio and be responsible for delivering high quality lifestyle and technical studio imagery inline with customer brands / aesthetic. Images are used for both websites and print.

The successful candidate will need to be technically sufficient at setting up varied lighting environments, using flash and continuous lighting, in studio equipment maintenance, guideline adherence and photography capture.

You will need to be able to provide a portfolio demonstrating your relevant product photography experience.

Reporting to the Studio Manager and Creative Director, your duties will include;

• Working closely with the retouch and creative teams to ensure that the schedule is agreed and imagery delivered on time
• Helping to drive the direction of our photography and operate calmly under pressure
• Creating high quality digital photography for websites, catalogues and marketing material, in line with style guidelines
• Maintaining consistently high standards, having a critical eye for detail
• Continuously improving the studio’s workflows and processes
• Trouble-shooting photography challenges on set
• Using industry experience and expertise to support the expansion of the photography capabilities
• Maintaining equipment and monitoring and upholding extremely high safety and quality standards

The successful applicant will possess:
• 3 - 5 years’ experience of working in a high volume, creating an array of imagery for online and print
• Creative mindset
• Excellent understanding of photography equipment and software (Adobe Creative Suite and Capture One)
• Proficient in 360 photography
• Good understanding of commercial studio processes (from taking pictures, sending to editors, getting pictures ready for print, working to deadlines)
• Ability to manage multiple projects
• Able to work efficiently and calmy to tight production deadlines
• A self-driven mentality, able to easily communicate creative ideas and collaborate in a team environment
• A focus on productivity, practical thinking and the ability to solve problems quickly





Hours: 32 hours per week - Monday – Thursday 8am – 5pm

For more information about this role, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01202 686000 or send your CV to jobs@rm.uk.com

Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually so If you do not hear from us within 3 days, please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise, we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles.

Resource Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all its employees and job applicants equally. It is the policy of the Company to take all reasonable steps to ensure that each applicant is assessed only in accordance on the basis of their qualifications, skills and abilities to perform the relevant duties without prejudice in regards to background, religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability or gender.

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