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Design Manager

Church's Texas Chicken Remote (🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America)

Remote $70,000 - $100,000 Full-time Senior

The Design Manager develops and reviews building design projects for global franchised and company restaurants to maintain brand integrity. This includes creating floorplans, managing architectural consultants, and overseeing trade dress and imaging elements.

Responsibilities

  • Create floorplans, conceptual design packages, and site plans for new restaurant designs in AutoCAD
  • Provide guidance and direction to franchisees' architectural consultants to ensure adherence to Church's design specifications
  • Manage and track design projects, keeping weekly touchpoints with franchisees, architects, and GC's
  • Review and approve franchisee-submitted site-adapted plans to determine adherence to company design standards
  • Support the US reimage initiative by collaborating with the Remodel Team and assisting franchisees with design solutions
  • Manage brand's trade dress and imaging elements, custom décor pieces, and exterior signage

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in architecture, or interior design preferred or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in restaurant design preferred
  • Experience with QSR design is desirable
  • Fundamental understanding of overall construction process and how interior and exterior elements are built
  • Proficient in AutoCAD, Photoshop, and Bluebeam or Acrobat Pro
  • Fluent in metric with minimum 1-year practical experience using the metric system is a plus

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Opportunities for career growth and development

Key Skills

AutoCAD Photoshop Bluebeam Acrobat Pro Metric system Project management Communication Collaboration Design thinking Problem-solving Leadership Time management Organization Attention to detail Critical thinking Influencing others Initiative Innovative and creative thinking Managing execution Negotiating Relationship management

About Church's Texas Chicken

Founded in San Antonio, Texas, in 1952, Church's Texas Chicken® and Texas Chicken® is a globally recognized brand in the Quick Service Restaurant industry and one of the largest quick service chicken concepts around the world. Church's Texas Chicken serves up a rich tradition of BOLD Southern hospitality and freshly prepared, high quality, authentic home-style fare, to help people provide affordable, complete meals for their families. Church's menu includes its world famous Original and Spicy chicken, Tender Strips® and chicken sandwiches with classic sides and hand-made from scratch honey-butter biscuits. The Church's system consists of more than 1700 locations in 24 countries and system-wide sales of $1.2 billion. Throughout the world the company operates two brands: Church's Texas Chicken and Texas Chicken.

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