Senior Designer - City Design

Description

• Effectively implements quality control standards for deliverables.
• Effectively communicates internally with project teams and externally with consultants and clients through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• Protects SOM from financial and legal risk.
• In collaboration with team members, develops a clear and consistent work plan to achieve the project budget, deliverables, and schedule.
• Creates and innovates with a strong conceptual design ability applied to complex projects at divergent scales and in varying geographic and social contexts; integrates interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the design of large projects.
• Inspires and leads others by example, participates in staff mentoring and training, clearly defines team member expectations and responsibilities, empowers others, and delegates where appropriate based on team members’ recognized abilities and potential.
• Directly supervises staff and is committed to direct reports’ professional development.
• Actively collaborates at a project, consultant team, and client team level by critically and constructively evaluating ideas. Contributes to and actively participates within the studio and office.
• Inspires and leads others by example, participates in staff mentoring and training.
• Conducts and increasingly directs high-level research, precedent, and relevant scale studies.
• Develops and engages in talent strategy to find specialists, leaders, and future professionals for the firm through resume review and interviews.
• Envisions and develops diagrams, renders site plans, and contributes to all manner of graphic and visual production.
• Contributes to the implementation of sustainable strategies in all project assignments and the associated development of staff knowledge.
• Contributes to the development of standards, policies, and procedures.
• Actively engages in internal and external professional development opportunities.
• Serves as an emerging leader of the CDP Team.
• Manages time and workload of own work efforts and those of others to meet project task deadlines and commitments, with occasional interaction and direction from team leaders.

Requirements

• Consistently demonstrates a highly disciplined and effective work ethic.
• Demonstrates expertise in AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, parametric and rendering software, and other graphic software, an appreciation of AI tools in urban design process and outputs, as well as Adobe Creative Suite, Google Suite and Microsoft Office.
• Professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
• Is able to enrich design concepts through sophisticated knowledge, demonstrated research acumen, and expert application of technical, visualization, and other sophisticated communication strategies
• Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision-making quality with a high attention to precision and accuracy at a project level.
• Demonstrates an advanced understanding of planning and urban design concepts, building typologies, critical dimensions and systems, utility and infrastructure systems, land development imperatives and planning / zoning codes, and phasing and implementation techniques.
• Professional licensure process is close to completion; LEED accreditation strongly preferred.
• Minimum 6 years of experience or equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Significant experience in large-scale planning, mixed-use and transit oriented development, and consistently demonstrated facility working in a fast-paced and intensely collaborative professional environment.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance