Senior Designer - City Design

Overview

Lead urban design projects, overseeing planning, mixed-use, and transit-oriented development.

Key Responsibilities

• quality control
• concept design
• visual production
• research
• risk management
• work planning

Tasks

-Effectively implements quality control standards for deliverables. -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. -Contributes to the implementation of sustainable strategies in all project assignments and the associated development of staff knowledge. -Inspires and leads others by example, participates in staff mentoring and training. -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. -Serves as an emerging leader of the CDP Team. -Directly supervises staff and is committed to direct reports’ professional development. -Effectively communicates internally with project teams and externally with consultants and clients through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means. -Develops and engages in talent strategy to find specialists, leaders, and future professionals for the firm through resume review and interviews. -Protects SOM from financial and legal risk. -Actively engages in internal and external professional development opportunities. -Contributes to the development of standards, policies, and procedures. -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. -In collaboration with team members, develops a clear and consistent work plan to achieve the project budget, deliverables, and schedule. -Envisions and develops diagrams, renders site plans, and contributes to all manner of graphic and visual production. -Conducts and increasingly directs high-level research, precedent, and relevant scale studies. -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

• autocad
• rhino
• grasshopper
• leed
• 6+ years
• urban design

What You Bring

-Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision-making quality with a high attention to precision and accuracy at a project level. -Professional licensure process is close to completion; LEED accreditation strongly preferred. -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 Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture. -Consistently demonstrates a highly disciplined and effective work ethic. -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. -Is able to enrich design concepts through sophisticated knowledge, demonstrated research acumen, and expert application of technical, visualization, and other sophisticated communication strategies -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.

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About Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Som)

-has been at the forefront of architecture, urban planning, and engineering. -known for cutting-edge designs, innovative use of materials, and sustainable building techniques. -designed some of the world’s tallest and most iconic buildings, including the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. -projects span across a range of sectors, including commercial, residential, and institutional buildings, as well as urban infrastructure. -a pioneer in integrated design, combining architecture, engineering, and urban planning to create transformative spaces. -global reach extends to major cities across the world, with offices in Chicago, New York, London, Hong Kong, and more. -notable projects include the Willis Tower in Chicago, the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, and the 7 World Trade Center in New York. -continues to push the boundaries of design, balancing aesthetic beauty with functionality and environmental responsibility.

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