Interior Design Internship
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Job Description
About Company:
Lensa is a U.S. career site that helps job seekers discover job opportunities. Lensa promotes jobs on behalf of its clients, which include employers, recruitment agencies, and marketing partners. The internship itself is with Olson Kundig, an architecture firm.
Job Description:
This is a six-month paid interior design internship offered to interior design students and graduates from around the world. The goal of Olson Kundig’s Interior Design Internship Program is to provide experience and exposure to the many facets of the interior design practice.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
The intern will support Interior Designers and Architects with all aspects of project work, including conceptual, design development, and construction documentation. This internship provides invaluable experience applying knowledge and skills learned through education in a business environment, working alongside and in support of a group of world-class professionals.
Duties May Include (some Or All The Following):
• Sample Library: Organize and update information and price lists including filing and returning samples, maintaining electronic library, database, and physical samples.
• Create floor plans, furniture plans by Revit (and AutoCAD).
• Capable of hand sketching/coloring 3-dimensional images of interiors and furniture.
• Conduct research for materials, furniture, and photographic images, through hardcopy and online website searches.
• Download and edit images and files from websites, catalogs, and websites for use in Revit, Photoshop, or InDesign presentations.
• Administrative duties: Updating and filing paperwork, organizing client files, preparing transmittals, packaging and mailing samples/correspondence.
• Vendor communication: Telephone and face to face meetings with sales representatives or showrooms, researching pricing, spec sheets, stock checks, etc.
• Assist with errands: Pick-up/deliver between various locations and Olson Kundig’s office (e.g. picking up samples, mock-ups, etc.).
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design or currently enrolled college student working toward obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, preferably from a CIDA accredited program.
• Must have an interest in a career in interior design.
• Strong user of Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), and Windows-based software solutions.
• Strong conceptual, communication and organizational skills.
• General knowledge of current furniture, material and building finish products.
• Knowledge in LEED requirements a plus.
Other:
• Valid driver’s license.
• Capable of lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds.
• Capable of climbing, standing and working on a 6’-0” ladder.
Additional Information:
• Interns from countries outside of the U.S. are responsible for obtaining the necessary paperwork enabling them to work in the U.S., although the firm will provide a letter stating its offer of employment.
• Olson Kundig is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• The hiring range for this position in Seattle is $25.75/hour.
