Design Technician Trusses

A bit about the role

Reporting to the Senior Design Technician the role is undertake the design of timber roof truss structures and quantify associated components in accordance with the customer’s architectural designs, the agreed specification, and structural engineering guidance. This requires to be carried out within the required budgetary costs, in terms of both product costs and design timescales, and to the requisite quality standards.

You’ll ensure accuracy of approved drawings, production designs and purchase order requests for the trussed roof structure, associated materials, and fascia and soffit products, while ensuring each design meets standards for programme compliance, quality, budget, and health & safety.

Our Design Technicians are core to the operation of our business and as a key member of the team you’ll be proactive in offering solutions to value engineer for our customers, while working as part of a wider team to deliver great customer service.

• Deliver design which meets criteria for customer service, HSE&Q, budgetary limitations while working within the standard system protocols.
• Ensure accuracy of approved drawings, production designs and purchase order requests for the trussed roof structure, associated materials, and fascia and soffit products
• Ensure design meets agreed standards for programme compliance, quality and budgets
• Ensure designs are value engineered to meet internal and external customer requirements
• Proactively offer appropriate solutions using alternative materials, provide support with design related queries, and to recognise and communicating project variations

Your Skills

You must have truss design experience and a good working knowledge of MiTek PAMIR and AutoCAD, or alternative truss design software such as Wolf Systems or Gang-Nail.

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

You’ll also have excellent communication and organisation skills, you can plan your working week, manage time, information, and reporting. You ideally have experience within the construction industry.

What you’ll offer 

We are seeking people who bring the right mix of skill, attitude, and character, people who take pride in their work and want to grow with us. You’ll be a great fit if you have: 

• Strong core skills for the role and a willingness to keep learning
• A positive, proactive attitude and pride in doing things well
• Integrity, professionalism, and a respect for others
• A strong customer mindset, internally and externally
• The ability to think clearly, solve problems, and make good decisions
• A collaborative style that supports their team and builds trust
• Ambition and the desire to develop your career as we grow

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.

What we offer

This role is based at one of our office locations - Witney – Oxfordshire, Westhill- Aberdeenshire or Plains – North Lanarkshire. Home / office hybrid working is also available. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with an opportunity for flexible working.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing development and an opportunity to develop your career.

30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay 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.

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. 

A bit about us

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.

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.