Urban Designer/ Planner

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) Full time

At SOM, we are a collective committed to shaping a better future for our clients, communities and planet. We aspire to create the most sustainable, impactful work through creative, interdisciplinary teams with all the resources and diversity of a global firm. We value those who are passionate about excellence, innovation, integrity, inclusivity, and collaboration. Knowledge: We believe that expertise is the result of lifelong learning. We strive for excellence in the concept, quality, and delivery of our work.
Firm: We have a history of making transformative contributions to the profession and our communities. We are part of SOM’s Global City Design Practice of seventy talented professionals working across our offices around the world. You will work on projects at the regional, city, district, and neighbourhood levels, in collaboration with our in-house Architecture and Open Space teams.
This work includes international design competitions, regeneration of urban districts, community planning, and University and Health Care campus planning each with a strong emphasis on placemaking, sustainability, and livability.
Generates increasingly sophisticated planning and design ideas, conducts high-level research, identifies and documents precedents and relevant scale studies, envisions and develops diagrams, renders site plans, and contributes to all manner of graphic and visual production.
Effectively applies SOM City Design Practice protocols for file management, planning and design processes, and quality control standards for deliverables.
Demonstrates an 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."
Creates and innovates with a strong conceptual design ability to complex projects and sites of divergent scales; integrates interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the planning and urban design aspects of complex projects.
Able to enrich design concepts through increasingly sophisticated knowledge, research acumen, and proficient application of technical and visualisation skills and effectively uses software and appropriate analogue and digital tools to design and document at all project phases.
Effectively communicates with the project team and consultants through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
Actively collaborates at a project and consultant team level by developing, communicating, and critically and constructively evaluating ideas. Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with periodic interaction and direction from project leaders while sharing knowledge with less experienced staff and other Team members.
Immersion in the SOM office through regular participation lectures, design reviews, lunch and learns, site visits, and professional development opportunities.
Professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
Experience in large-scale planning, mixed-use and transit oriented development, and demonstrated facility working in a fast-paced and intensely collaborative professional environment.
Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision-making quality with a high attention to detail, precision and accuracy at a project component level.
Demonstrates significant capacity and a high level of proficiency in AutoCAD, GIS, Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, Lumion, parametric and rendering software, and other graphic software as well as Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office. Revit proficiency is a plus.
Language proficiency in Arabic is a plus, given our current workload in the Middle East
SOM offers opportunities to work on transformational projects, competitive salaries, health insurance, wellness, retirement and financial and other work/life plans.
At SOM, we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace. We believe an inclusive environment benefits our employees, our firm, and our community, while also enriching and challenging our own thinking about design. Visit this page to learn more about SOM's employment policy and how to apply offline:
Portfolios must be submitted for all design positions (Architecture, Interiors, Planning, etc). We hire talented people who are passionate about design and offer a rewarding career experience.
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