Fixture Design Lead

Fixture Design Lead

• Location: Dublin, CA, 94568 (Hybrid)
• Pay: $45-$55/hr
• Contract: 6 month contract-to-hire

Required Skills & Experience

• Project Management: 3-5 years of project management experience ideally in a retail or fixture design environment
• Retail: Retail leadership or retail sales associate background
• Vendor Management: Experience with vendor management and able to keep vendors on track, follow up as needed and track down deliverables.
• Tech Stack: Familiar with Microsoft suite (Teams, OneNote, Outlook, Excel), especially Visio and OneDrive.
• Fast Paced Environment: must be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, with changing deliverables and priorities; able to take initiative, be inquisitive, and take ownership of their work and project deadlines

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Photoshop experience - AutoCad or Solidworks

Job Description

An employer in Bay Area, CA is seeking a Fixture Design Lead to join their team. This is a hybrid role, and is required to be onsite 3 days/week in Dublin, CA.

Responsibilities include:

• Project Planning: Develops and supports project timelines and budgets, including creation of project plans, communication to key stakeholders, and assisting in the development of operational procedures.
• Coordinates requests for vendor design proposals, and analysis of submittals, for review with leadership.
• Develops fixture design concepts for review, including sketches, renderings, engineering drawings, and assembly drawings.
• Leads kickoff meetings with project partners. Recaps these meetings and drives resolution of action items. Project Execution
• Leads assessment of engineering samples and prototypes for conformance to design specifications, identifies variances and nonconformances, recommends action plans to address, drives closeout of action plan with vendors.
• Leads testing of new fixture designs for multiple stores. Provides onsite support for installation as assigned. Validates that new design is installed to standard.
• Conducts frequent follow-ups, including monthly walkthroughs and rapid response to store feedback, to ensure design is performing as expected.
• Maintain schedules to ensure deadlines are met.
• Resolves issues timely within budget.
• Sends weekly recaps of project progress including issue resolution status.
• Closely tracks projects costs within budget, coordinates approved change orders to address concerns, and provides timely cost information to finance partners.
• Creates and tracks the project punchlist to ensure effective and timely closeout.
• Prepares and sends final project recap, including photo validation, to support documentation of satisfactory project completion.