Description
With minimal direction, plans, coordinates and carries out comprehensive and long-range programs for improvement of the interior environment of major areas, including responsibility for new construction and renovation activities of large and complex buildings. Establishes standards for building complexes which include furniture, graphics, signing, flooring and paints. Recommends priorities to various building project directors and committees regarding facilities, appearance and design. Prepares conceptual layouts for architects and building committees approval. Prepares building color schedules, final furnishing layouts, materials presentation, models, working drawings, and renderings as necessary. Provides functional supervision to project team consisting of 2-3 staff designers and/or contract designers. Coordinates work efforts with construction contractors, retained architects, and/or University project directors. Responsible for specification of items which meet state and federal fire and health codes. Employees have 8 or more years of professional experience and possess comprehensive knowledge of the Interior Design field in the completion of complex assignments in an institutional environment. Employees in this classification are required to have a minimum of a Bachelors degree and are professionally licensed. Employees typically analyze, compare and evaluate various courses of action and have the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their authority. Primary activities and decision making authority are predominantly performed independently. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.