Design Technician

 (Hybrid/ Home working available)

Locations:  

Witney – Oxfordshire, Westhill- Aberdeenshire

and Plains – North Lanarkshire

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

A bit about the role

Our Design Technicians are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, reporting to the Senior Design Technician, you’ll be responsible for designing timber frame superstructures for homes and buildings using architectural designs, specifications, and structural engineering guidance.

You’ll ensure accuracy of approved drawings, production designs for building components including walls, floors, and roofs. You’ll develop bills of materials for all structural and joinery components, steel fabrication, ensuring each design meets standards for programme compliance, quality, budget, health, and safety. You’ll be proactive in offering solutions to value engineer for our customers, working as part of a team to deliver great customer communication.

Your skills

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for design, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

You’ll also have excellent organisation skills, you can plan your working week, manage time, information, and reporting.

You’ll need a good working knowledge of Consultec software (or HSB CAD, Mitek Wood Engine, Wolf Horizon) and AutoCAD. You have experience within the construction industry and ideally a knowledge of timber frame design.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

If this sounds like the right step for your career, please apply to DTScareers@donaldsontimbersystems.com