Interior Designer Position

Part time, up to 20 hours/week

Location: 3142 E. Vantage Point Drive,
Midland, MI 48642

Date Posted: 1-23-12

Level/Salary Range: $17-$22/hour Posting Expires: 2-20-12

HR Contact: Julie L. Hays
Applications Accepted By E-Mail: jhays@spaceinc.net

Interior Designer

Basic Job Function:
Provides design services to customers including site/inventory verifications, programming, space planning, typical
development, color boards, working/installation drawings, specifications and site-to-plan review. Works closely
with sales team, order entry and installation groups, as well as customers, to ensure accurate plans and
specifications, conformance to client’s requirements, customer satisfactory, and high quality project
implementation.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Design Process
• Attends client planning meetings; presents plans and information to customer for review and approvals
• Reviews site; conducts field measurements and plan-to-site adherence checks
• Inventories existing product; produces as-built drawings/specifications
• Conducts in-depth programming and produces program report; interviews customer/end users,
researches workplace requirements; analyzes space/furniture needs
• Develops and presents block and space plans; gains customer approvals
• Develops and presents color/finish boards and selections; gains customer approvals
• Develops finished working drawings for specification and installation; validates plans against construction,
electrical engineering and A&D drawing sets; gains customer approvals
• Develops product specifications; double checks specifications against plans; gets specifications orderentry
ready using an electronic specification program
• Manages changes and revisions
• Conducts field and punch list review with project managers and/or installation groups.

Departmental Practices
• Estimates design project time; maintains detailed daily time sheets; manages actual time against project
estimates
• Assists in the writing and presentation of design proposals and contracts to customers
• Maintains detailed and extensive project documentation, including records of all key decisions, phone
conversations, approvals and sign-offs, and notes from all project planning meetings
• Manages adherence to project schedule, internal budget, customer’s project budget, design task
completion and quality of design work
• Communications regularly to customer and team re: design project status
• Is responsible for invoice/billing management of projects assigned
• Does plotting, printing, color boards, etc. for client and team transmittals.

Contact Julie Hayes by email jhays@spaceinc.net

Office Professional Position Type: Full time

Company SPACE, Inc. Benefits: Paid vacation and holidays;
health insurance; retirement

Location: 3142 E. Vantage Point Drive,
Midland, MI 48642

Date Posted: 1-23-12

Level/Salary Range: $20-30K Posting Expires: 1-31-12

HR Contact: Julie L. Hays
Applications Accepted By E-Mail: jhays@spaceinc.net

Job Purpose:
Create an outstanding first impression for all client communication and support the SPACE team members through
administrative and clerical activities.
Objectives:
• Answer phones and direct all forms of communication in a welcoming and professional manner to create
a memorable impression.
• Provide administrative and clerical support to all team members, enabling them to focus their attention
on creating exceptional client experiences.
• Coordinate the hospitality details for all of internal and external events, gift giving, and guest services to
create an exceptional client experience.
Communication:
• Provide a warm and welcoming impression in all forms of communication.
• Answer phones and accurately redirect all incoming calls.
• Respond to e-mail queries the same day.
• Prepare thank you letters.
• Provide personal attention for all existing external clients.
Administrative Functions:
• Prepare Excel and Word documents.
• Provide administrative and clerical support for all team members.
• Provide data entry for spreadsheets.
• Update Outlook calendars; set up WebEx meetings; check for webinar requests via the website.
• File AP and AR documents; maintain postage meter; distribute incoming mail and prepare outgoing mail.
• Maintain supply inventory and order products as needed.
• Schedule repair and maintenance for phones and copiers.
• Coordinate, book, document and budget for travel.
Qualifications:
• Warm, friendly and outgoing personality, in person and on the telephone.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Organizational and supply management abilities.

SPACE team members are filling boxes and bags with non-perishable food items to help stock food pantries in Midland County.  ReMax and Dow Chemical in conjunction with United Way are spearheading the “Feed the Need” community food drive.  Chemical Bank distributed several hundred mesh bags to be used to collect food donations.

Within 12 hours of announcing that SPACE would be participating in the drive, a box filled with food items mysteriously appeared on my desk.  Now THAT’S what makes me proud to be a member of such a great team!  Other team members have taken mesh bags home to fill with goodies.  All our donations will be loaded up and delivered to a drop off site on Monday, November 30th.

We just completed our United Way campaign for 2009.  It started back in September with a presentation by Chris Gardner, the inspiration for the movie, “Pursuit of Happyness” starring Will Smith.  It ended with the community goal exceeded by $50,000…..quite a feat considering Michigan’s economy.  At the closing event a “thank-you” video was shown that highlights the impact your giving has. 

One person can make a difference.  When you have a whole team working together, the results are amazing!

Our great SPACE employees have answered the call to help their neighbors again this year.  As the 2009 United Way campaign draws to a close, I’m proud to report that employee giving is only $48 shy of last year’s record number.  That’s amazing to me considering Michigan’s economy and the belt-tightening everyone’s doing. 

Thanks in part to our SPACE team, United Way of Midland County can continue to meet the increasing needs of people in our area.  In addition, our SPACE team adds to their monetary pledges by donating time to Volunteer Center programs, United Way agencies, and the community at large.

Final community-wide totals will be available the first week of November.  As of right now, the campaign is at 72% of goal.  With most individual campaigns ending this coming week, hopes are high that the last 28% will be met.   Stay tuned for those final numbers……and……LIVE UNITED!

SPACE kicked off its 2009 United Way campaign at the Team Meeting on Friday, 9/25.  After watching the United Way 2009 Campaign Video that highlighted 3 of the 28 agency partners United Way supports, a few of the impacts of giving were reviewed. 

Being asked to donate money to others when you’re struggling to make it yourself in this economy presents a dilemma for most people.  If you can see how your dollars make a difference, you realize that maybe you’re not struggling as much as someone else is.  In addition, giving of your time by volunteering at one of the programs of agency partners, working at one of their events, or promoting their activities are other ways to provide support. 

After careful review of what agencies are requesting as funding for 2010, this year’s United Way of Midland County campaign goal was set at $4.8 million.  This is the same goal as last year in an economy that’s dropped significantly.  However, the needs of the community have escalated due to that economy.  More than ever, your dollars are needed by more of your neighbors.

If you haven’t done so already, please consider giving through payroll deduction.  It’s the easiest, most painless way to give.  Even $2 a pay period makes a difference.  Forms are available in my office.  A special thank-you to all those who’ve already made a commitment.

As an additional fundraiser, you can “buy a shirt, wear your jeans!”  If you donate $10, your name will go on a “Live United” t-shirt pinup and you can wear jeans on a Friday.   Buy more than one shirt, wear jeans more than one Friday!  Let’s see how many paper t-shirts we can post on our panels!