Job Title

Exhibition 3D Stand Designer

Location – Nimlok Wellingborough, NN8 6NL

Hours: Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:00

Salary - Competitive

Overview of Role

As one of our exhibition stand designers you’ll be responsible for utilising Nimlok’s best practice in designing visually impactful exhibition stands for our wide range of clients. You’ll need a strong eye for design detail combined with a comprehensive technical knowledge to execute your concepts into reality. You will be integral to our current design team working closely with our wider creative teams enabling your designs to really stand out. Working closely with our sales channels you interpretation of the brief will allow our clients to deliver their exhibiting objectives whilst managing the available project budgets. You will need to have a proven track record within the exhibiting industry with excellent communication skills, proficiency in design software with a high level of technical accuracy.  

Location

The role is located at the prestigious offices of Nimlok Ltd, based in Wellingborough Northamptonshire. Candidates ideally should live within a reasonable commuting distance and, as there may be some requirement to travel to external events, exhibitions and suppliers in the course of the job a full driving licence (with no restrictions that could impact our insurance) and valid passport are a must. Please note that there is no public transport serving the estate and therefore the ability to travel to our offices independently is essential.

Responsible to

Creative and Engagement Director

Key tasks:

Key tasks (cont):

The role of our Exhibition stand designer will involve:

·       To design a create visually appealing exhibition stand for clients

·       Understanding where the integration of our engagement tools will enhance and help deliver our clients messaging

·       Identifying our clients brand, target audience, messaging and goals for their exhibiting programme before bringing them to life

·       Attendance in pre-briefing meetings to aid the successfully capture of the full scope and understanding of the project

·       Presenting design concepts, mood boards and 3D renderings to internal stakeholders and clients for feedback and approval.

·       Ensuring your designs are centred around our modular system, to high technical standards, which meet health and safety requirements and can be delivered timely onsite.

·       Handing over your design to our Project Management team for delivery, communicating with them on the rationale, integration and material finishes around your concept

·       Staying current with industry trends, technologies and materials finishes

Skills and Experience Required, what you'll need

• 2 years’ experience (minimum) as a mid-weight 3D exhibition stand designer working within the exhibition, events, or experiential sectors
• A strong portfolio demonstrating your design skills and experience in delivering successful projects (and be able to tell us why they were successful!)
• Ability to move and act quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Good project management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• An exceptional eye for technical detail, accuracy and quality
• Commercial awareness whilst designing against available budgets
• Strong, hands-on experience with CAD software (Ideally VectorWorks)
• Strong visual rendering skills (Ideally using Artlantis or TwinMotion)
• Design software knowledge for the creation of presentation materials using the Adobe Creative suite of software (Ideally InDesign or Photoshop)
• The ability to sketch ideas would be a nice to have (but not essential)

Person characteristics

·      Well presented, professional and business like

·      Good communicator – both face to face and telephone/virtually

·      Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills

·      Self-confident and comfortable in dealing at all levels

·      Self-driven and results orientated

·      Good listener/interpreter

·      Ability to stay calm and work accurately in pressured situations

·      Persistent and able to stay focused on achieving results

·      Exemplary timekeeping and attendance

·      Self-motivated

·      Flexibility in order to meet the demands of the role (sometimes at short notice or during unsociable hours)

Rewards

Basic Salary: Competitive, with overtime available when required

Benefits:  Auto enrolment compliant Pension after 3 months , Following benefits apply after 12 months qualifying service period), 4 x salary Death in Service insurance cover, Healthshield Cash Benefit for Dental, Optical and Complementary therapies .                                                

 Holiday entitlement: 23 days per annum (With an additional day being allocated every 6 months for full attendance) plus statutory public holidays

Career prospects:

 The long-term career prospects within Nimlok and the P3 Group are excellent and needless to say you will receive comprehensive training so you can quickly gain a comprehensive knowledge of our modular system and working practices.   If you feel you have the passion and enthusiasm that we are looking for then we would like to hear from you! Please email your CV to careers@nimlok.co.uk.  Nimlok Ltd., Nimlok House, Booth Drive, Park Farm, Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 6NL telling us why we should see you along with your salary expectations

Please see our Careers at Nimlok Linkedin page to learn a little more about us.

About Us

Nimlok is a leading global exhibition stand design and build supplier. Our clients benefit from our full range of exhibition stand services, innovative digital engagement solutions and in-house creative design, managed under one roof from our 55,000 sq ft facility in Northamptonshire. Globally we have large scale manufacturing capabilities in the US and Canada, plus partners in Europe, Dubai, South Africa, Asia and Australia.

Established in 1970, Nimlok are an independently financed, family-owned business and part of the P3 Group. From design through pre-build preview, to installation and dismantle, our award-winning teams are qualified, experienced, and passionate, with innovation, sustainability and providing tangible return on investment for our clients, at the heart of everything we do.

We are long-standing members of ESSA, (the Event Supplier and Services Association), a trade body representing the very best contractors and suppliers of goods and services to the UK’s events industry. We have also been the proud winners of the prestigious AEO Excellence Award as Stand Design & Build Supplier of Year on three occasions, as well as being finalists a further five times.