Mid-Career Designer, Kitchen with Sales Skills Hourly Pay

Job Description for Designer, Kitchen

A kitchen designer helps plan and execute design projects for residential or commercial food-preparation areas.

Designers working in residential fields likely need a strong background in architecture. However, for designers setting up commercial kitchens, the architecture work is normally completed and skill; therefore, their job consists mainly involves their knowledge of culinary design and functionality. Regardless of field, a kitchen designer must be able to understand the needs of the client and relate them to the functionality of a space and the kitchen equipment. They need to help establish costs and budgets, informing the client of financial issues throughout the design and execution processes.

A residential designer helps custom-tailor a kitchen space to fit the needs of the contractor or homeowner; this may involve building or renovating an existing space. A kitchen designer in the commercial sector must be well-versed in the needs of the facility of the kitchen and fully understand the staffing needs necessary to execute that institution’s vision.

Residential kitchen designers typically need at least a bachelor's degree in architecture and relevant experience in the field. Commercial designers, meanwhile, must have expertise in culinary designs and the needs of commercial kitchens. (Copyright 2019 PayScale.com)

• Assist customers with kitchen and bath design.
• Verify designs, materials list, cost, and installation services with customers, project manager, and design technicians.
• Perform measurements and order materials.
• Promote installation services.
• Complete the design and sale of customer remodeling projects.

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