Architectural Technologist (maternity cover) required
Location: Jedburgh
Contract Type: Temporary
Company: IndiNature
Salary Band: £32-36,000 p.a. depending on experience
Region: Scottish Borders
Start Date: February 2025
Role Description
This is an opportunity for someone who loves natural construction materials and technical specification to join our technical sales team – specifying and selling low carbon, healthy construction products to a range of residential and commercial clients for both new build and retrofit.
Job purpose:
Your purpose is to ensure products are specified and installed in the best way for optimising performance, safety and health – and to support the sales team to close sales projects.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
* Providing technical sales support to both the sales team and directly with clients
* Ensuring products are installed as specified in the company’s Install Guides
* Keeping Installation Guides up to date for best practice and regulatory compliance
* Providing drawings for Installation Guides and technical literature as required
* Making sure installed products comply with building regulations
* Ensuring products are installed for optimum performance and safety
* Reducing any risks with installations – particularly condensation risks
* Providing a good customer experience
* On occasion supporting the team at events such as trade shows
* Supporting the sales team to facilitate CPD sessions for architects and installers
* Supporting the sales team to close sales projects by providing technical support
* Ability to provide a positive client experience
* Able to communicate technical information in a clear manner
* A positive, can-do attitude - enjoys creative problem solving
* Value taking care of the environment
Essential experience or qualifications:
* Qualification as an Architectural Technologist or Technician
* Minimum 5 years’ experience in the sector
* Experience with natural bio-based fibre insulations
* Excellent understanding of moisture and heat transfer movement in buildings
* Trained in WUFI modelling – basic training minimum
* Competent with U value calculations
* AutoCAD, Revit and Sketchup
* Adobe InDesign and Photoshop
* Excellent technical drawing skills
* Experience across a range of building types and clients
Preferred experience or qualifications:
* Thermal bridging risk analysis
* Sales or customer service experience in the sector
Beneficial experience or qualifications:
* Embodied carbon calculations
* Delivering CPD sessions to architects or builders
* Chartered member of CIAT
We greatly value our team and encourage and support staff to take up training and attend events to develop professionally.
How to apply
If you are interested in having an informal discussion to find out more, please contact Jennie Gibson on 01835 867 074.
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