Senior Carpenter & CAD Designer

Position Overview

We are looking for a Vector Works and CNC Trained Senior Carpenter and Designer who is responsible for planning, designing, and implementing the custom scenic projects for our business. They liaise directly with Technical Event Managers and Project Managers to understand the brief, whilst offering support and guidance based on their knowledge/skills. The Senior Carpenter and Designer is responsible for ensuring compliance on all carpenter’s workshop/scenery policies, maintaining daily workspace standards, and successful completion of all daily tasks. This position will, support adequate staffing levels related to business needs. The Senior Carpenter and Designer will, the Scenery Manager.

Encore strives to create workplaces that reflect the communities in which we work and live, and where every individual has a full sense of belonging. Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion fuels innovation, collaboration, expertise, and excellence, while connecting us more closely to our customers

Your perspective:

• Salary up to £35-40,000 dependant on experience
• Private Healthcare with no excess payments for the employee
• Employee supported volunteering
• Enhanced family leave provisions
• Perkbox and Employee assistance Programme
• Company sick pay
• Employee recognition scheme
• Generous employee referral scheme
• Clearly defined Career path (and all the important support along the way)
• Access to state-of-the-art technology
• Global presence and opportunities worldwide
• Long Service Programme

Key Job Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Development                                                                                                                                       

• Embrace and foster the company’s Core Values.
• See the Big Picture by driving integration with the teams across all brands and regions.

• Competent use of woodworking machinery.
• Knowledge of CNC routing essential
• Knowledge of Vector works and other Graphic packages.
• Ability to read technical drawings.
• Forklift license an advantage (training provided if required).
• Cultivate good working relationships between departments.

• Value People by promoting a culture of high performance, accountability, and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality.

• Increase operational effectiveness by managing direct reports and communicating values, strategies, and objectives aligned with organisational goals.
• Assist in evaluating the team’s efficiency and productivity using standards and KPI’s.
• Help provide training and development opportunities for team members and ensure a safe work environment consistent with company values.

• Do the Right Thing by ensuring all safety practices and policies are being followed.
• Main point of contact for employees/freelancers, if applicable on a day-to-day basis to ensure expectations and requirements are fulfilled.
• Ensure all prepared jobs are ready for dispatch on schedule.
• Any other ad hoc duties assigned by the Scenery Manager

Scenic Delivery                                                                                                                                       

• Drive Results by ensuring daily tasks are completed on time.
• Design and create scenic items according to client specification.
• Monitor inventory levels to maximise availability and utilisation for high demand products.
• Ensures high-accuracy physical inventory results and quality control and repair standards.

• Maintaining all aspects of the scenic construction workshop, ensuring all workshop equipment, tools and machinery are in a good, safe and efficient working condition.

• Quoting for Custom jobs and working with the Scenery Manger ensuring that purchase orders and invoices are raised accordingly.

• Assist with planning the booking for the workshop set builders and coverers.
• Keeping abreast of the advances in technologies and techniques in the industry.

Customer Service                                                                                                                                       

• Deliver World Class Service by working closely with internal customers to evaluate service levels and ensure all expectations are met.
• Ensure the highest standards of service while maintaining operation efficiency and a cohesive relationship with other departments.

• Liaising with the T.E. M’S and P.M’s where necessary to source all relevant scenic details (in particular identifying exceptional requirements).
• Attend meetings and site visits when required.

Disclaimer:

The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and may change, or additional tasks within scope of work may be assigned at any time with or without notice, as necessitated by business demands.

Job Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of construction and good spatial awareness
• Knowledge of drawing programmes and planning tools (Vector works/CAD) would be an advantage.
• Easy Job knowledge is an advantage.

• Previous supervisory/ management experience is essential.

·       Strong problem-solving skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to meet or exceed multiple concurrent deadlines.
• Leadership skills

Competencies

• Communicates Effectively

• Decision Quality
• Collaborates
• Instills Trust
• See the big picture.
• Drive Results
• Do the right thing.
• Value People

Physical Requirements

Team members must be able to meet the physical demands above in order to successfully perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Work Environment

Work is performed at in a warehouse and office environment. Team members must adhere to appearance guidelines as defined by Encore. When in the Warehouse, work will be completed in an environment with exposure to outdoor temperatures and to dirt, sand and/or dust.  The working conditions will vary between moderately quiet to noisy volumes.  Team members may use high-end audio visual equipment and electrical components.  Working times may include irregular hours and on-call status including days, evenings, weekends and holidays.  

The above information on this description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job.  While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.