Intermediate Designer - City Design

Position Responsibilities

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 visualization 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.

Able to actively collaborate at a project and consultant team level by developing, communicating, and critically and constructively evaluating ideas. Contributes to and actively participates within the studio.

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.

Able to actively participate as a core member of the CDP Team.

Demonstrates energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and a highly-disciplined work ethic.

Immerses in the SOM office through regular participation lectures, design reviews, lunch and learns, site visits, and professional development opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
• Professional licensure process is in progress; LEED accreditation preferred.
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience or equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities.
• 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, 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.