Junior Designer - City Design

Description

• Generates planning and design ideas, conducts research, documents precedents and scale studies, develops diagrams, renders site plans, and contributes to all manner of graphic and visual production. Takes initiative to learn and apply SOM City Design Practice protocols for file management, planning and design processes, and quality control standards for deliverables.
• Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with regular interaction and direction from project leaders and team members.
• Becomes immersed in the SOM office through lectures, design reviews, lunch and learns, site visits, and participation in office activities and professional development opportunities. Actively participates in the Year One Program (as appropriate).
• Actively participates as a junior member of the CDP Team.
• Actively collaborates at a project team level by developing, communicating, and critically and constructively evaluating ideas.

Requirements

• Brings energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and a disciplined work ethic to the City Design Practice.
• Recent completion of professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of planning and urban design concepts, building typologies and critical dimensions, utility and infrastructure systems, land development considerations and planning / zoning codes, and phasing and implementation techniques. Is able to enrich design concepts through knowledge, research, and proficient application of technical and visualization skills and effectively uses software and appropriate analogue and digital tools to design and document at all project phases.
• Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision-making quality with a high attention to detail, precision and accuracy at a task specific level.
• Demonstrates proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, Lumion, parametric and rendering software, and other graphic software as well as Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office; Revit proficiency a plus.
• Strong collaborative ability.
• Effectively communicates internally through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• LEED accreditation preferred.
• Applies a strong conceptual design ability to projects of varying complexity and sites of divergent scales; begins to integrate interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the planning and urban design aspects of complex projects.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance