• Posted on Feb 13, 2023
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Job Title: Playspace Designer

Reference: AJ0861

Company: HAGS UK Ltd

Based in: Selby, North Yorkshire

Contact name: Victoria Reeves-Smith

Contact email: [email protected]


HAGS design and manufacture a wide range of high-quality playground equipment, park & urban furniture, and outdoor sports & fitness equipment. As a UK market leader, we have a reputation for safety, reliability, sustainability, innovation, and outstanding customer service.

As the Playspace Designer, your role will be to cost and design our project-based work to help deliver our customers’ expectations through visualisation with an end goal of creating fun, engaging and inspiring play spaces for children across the country, creating memories and experiences that will last a lifetime. You will do this by utilising your existing skills in AutoCAD, 3DS Max, and the Adobe suite. Producing work of outstanding quality and within allotted, scheduled time you will play a key role in supporting the attainment of the UK’s sales objectives.

Working closely with our in-field Sales team, and Sales Coordination function you will take clients requests, gathered information and understanding of the project requirements and apply your skills and creativity to this critical function within sales cycle.

HAGS use the latest hardware including the most recent 3XS high performance desktop PC’s and the latest versions of Autodesk software and Adobe Creative Cloud. We continually update our rendering software and are continually seeking out new and upcoming innovations to further improve the quality of our output.

What we offer

  • Competitive Salary
  • Plus, a full benefits package

What you’ll do as our Playspace Designer:

  • Create play, sport and fitness concept design schemes through to fully developed, detailed presentation material in line with specific project briefs and budgets.
  • Associated collation and formation of priced quotations to sit alongside designed output, harnessing our business specific quote system.
  • Considering the requirements of all major stakeholders in this process both internally and externally to deliver creative solutions, which meet the needs of our customers and positively promotes our products and services. Harnessing the design function as an effective sales tool.
  • Work to defined timescales per project and manage your workload alongside stakeholder objectives to deliver the highest quality of output.
  • Contribute to idea sharing and design best practice with your peers to enable the design departments continual progression and maintain industry leading standards.
  • Liaise with external and third-party providers of product and services where required, to provide designs and associated costed proposals which offer a fully holistic design and build project solution.
  • Work within and contribute to a dynamic and creative design team with a focus on maintaining a winning culture.

As a Playspace Designer, you will have:

  • Working knowledge and relevant experience of AutoCad, 3DS Max and the Adobe Suite.
  • Preferrable working knowledge of Corona Renderer advantageous albeit not essential.
  • Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
  • Having willingness to learn quickly and adapt to change.
  • Ability to take on board constructive feedback, and work collaboratively to attain the highest quality of work output.
  • Able to follow brand guidelines alongside creative and technical direction.

Great communicator, able to question and positively challenge the norm, with a view to seeking a ‘win-win’ solution.

HAGS is an equal opportunity employer. We recognise that it takes diversity of thought, culture, background, and perspective to create a truly successful organisation.

If you believe you have what it takes to join our high-performing team and be our Playspace Designer, please email [email protected]