Senior Urban Designer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Urban Designer for the Architecture & Urbanism (A&U) division within the Places global business area. This position can be located in either London or Manchester, UK.

We are searching for a talented and enthusiastic Senior Urban Designer with passion, drive and a track record of design excellence to join the UK Architecture and Urbanism team. The successful candidate will engage with some of the most exciting developments and regeneration projects both in the UK and internationally.

Senior candidates with the right skills will have exciting opportunities to help grow our business, and as such we are looking for individuals that are entrepreneurial and market facing.

As a Senior Urban Designer, with a relevant urban design qualification and relevant project experience, you will join our team to support senior colleagues in the production of masterplans, urban design guidance, planning strategies, design & access statements and capacity studies for strategic planning and urban design commissions for public and private sector clients. You will have experience working on residential, mixed-use and regeneration projects in a UK context. You will work closely with planning colleagues, so an appreciation of the UK planning system, policy framework, the current planning agenda and key issues is an advantage.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead and collaborate with senior leadership through responding and developing the creative content for RFP responses, and supporting relevant marketing and business development initiatives
• Collaborate with and mentor Junior Urban Designers / Planners / Landscape Architects on a variety of private and public sector urban design, landscape architecture, master planning and planning projects  
• Independently manage and lead multi-disciplinary teams and assist with project completion from initial proposal compilation to detailed design and report delivery  
• Develop masterplans, site plans, built form and massing for a variety of projects ranging in complexity, scope and context  
• Prepare and present high-quality graphic presentations, detailed design schemes and reports  
• Engage with and manage Clients/Stakeholders and ensuring deadlines and budgetary constraints are met for all projects  
• Demonstrate strong verbal, written and graphic communication skills and ensure that a high level of professionalism and design excellence are upheld within each project   

Qualifications & Experience:

• An open and curious mindset and a genuine interest in how our cities and urban areas adapt and change
• Experience of working with both the private and public sectors in a variety of contexts in the UK. Project experience of urban regeneration, mixed use developments/innovation districts as well as large scale campuses and estates preferable.
• Experience of working on projects internationally across sectors.
• Minimum Batchelor level qualification in urban design/ practical experience in urban design and masterplanning. An architectural background would be beneficial but is not essential.
• At least 10 years professional experience
• A sound understanding of the UK Planning System
• Excellent graphic, written and spoken communication skills
• Good experiences of communication with clients. Participate in project management, can report/present the work results to client with strong influence.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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