Senior Environmental Designer - Exhibitions & Events

  • Melbourne
  • Events Agency
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Salary $100,000 - $110,000 plus super
The Company:

This leading events agency in Melbourne deliver a range of fantastic corporate, experiential and live events. This agency operates with the belief that how a brand communicates is not built around what they say, but the experiences that they create and share with audiences. They are looking for a Senior Environmental Designer to join their Events & Exhibitions team.

Position Terms:
  • Full-time permanent role, hybrid working
  • Salary: $100,000 - $110,000 plus super
The Role:

As a Senior Environmental Designer - Exhibitions & Events, you'll be a key leader, delivering exceptional 3D design and mentoring junior team members daily. You'll often lead projects, collaborating with Directors and Producers to ensure timely, high-quality, and budget-compliant delivery.

Your responsibilities include challenging briefs, developing cutting-edge conceptual solutions, and creating comprehensive technical packs with high-quality renders and visuals to sell your designs. A progressive mindset towards generative AI and new visualisation practices, along with strong communication skills, are essential. You'll manage material and cost engineering, source finishes, prepare detailed drawings, and conduct site surveys.

Key Responsibilities include;
  • Proficiently navigate cross-studio remote workflows, proactively seeking feedback, approvals, and guidance from stakeholders while effectively reporting upwards.
  • To promote and support the highest possible level of creative excellence achievable within available budget and time.
  • Responsible for driving and delivering innovative creative responses for new business pitches by not over capitalising resource.
  • Receives and interrogates briefs and develops design solutions to solve key business challenges/obstacles.
  • Decides on detail of creative response ie. from conceptual sketches through to high quality renders.
  • Prepares detailed working drawing packages including (but not limited to) plans, elevations, details, FF&E schedules, drawing schedules etc.
  • Receives/develops site surveys and prepares site specific documentation.
  • Oversees projects on site and at prototype stages to ensure design intent is being met.
  • Develops high end/cutting edge conceptual ideas and solutions.
  • Curates of 'sample' or 'mood' boards to communicate design intent. In depth consideration of materials and costs according to set budgets.
  • Oversees and approves graphics, materials, fittings, furniture, lighting, finishes, decoration and dressing including physical samples and prints from the wider team(s).
  • To promote, support and work with account management and production management, as well as other internal or external teams as appropriate.
The Candidate:

The successful candidate will have previous experience working in 3D Design within the events industry. Advanced ability of Vectorworks 3D modelling and visualisation and detailed documentation in sheets, full Adobe suite, with a key focus on Photoshop, Microsoft Office, AI software is essential for this role.
  • Excellent drawing skills, including hand sketching to communicate ideas.
  • The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines, as well as manage others.
  • Advanced organisational skills adhering and promoting company protocol and systems.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation and management skills.
  • Teamwork, in order to work with a range of other design streams.
  • The ability to learn and develop new design and construction techniques based on practice and research, and the ability to deploy them appropriately across projects without overuse or duplication.
  • The enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills within the AI sphere of visualisation and communication.
  • Ability to work from the office at least 3 days a week.
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If this role doesn't fit but if you are interested in Events positions in Australia, then please register your resume through our website:  www.apexeventrecruitment.com.au

Please note that this role will be subject to background checks and you must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.