Year One - Junior Designer - City Design

About the role

Join SOM’s Year One Program as a Junior Designer - City Design. Our program provides a suite of events and creative initiatives to help you get the most out of your first year at SOM.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Effectively communicates internally through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• Actively collaborates at a project team level by developing, communicating, and critically and constructively evaluating ideas.
• Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with regular interaction and direction from project leaders and team members.
• Actively participates as a junior member of the CDP Team.
• 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).

Requirements

• Recent completion of professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
• Strong collaborative ability.
• LEED accreditation preferred.
• Interest in large-scale planning, mixed-use and transit oriented development, and 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 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.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Recent completion of professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture. Strong collaborative ability. LEED accreditation preferred. Interest in large-scale planning, mixed-use and transit oriented development, and 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 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.

Skills

• 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.

Benefits

• Health and Wellness: Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life & accident insurance.
• Savings: 401K matching, pre-tax spending accounts, and employee discount programs.
• Work/Life Balance: Hybrid/Flexible schedules, paid family leave, paid vacation, backup child and elder care, and an employee assistance program.
• Professional Development: Reimbursement for professional licenses, associated renewals, and exam fees as well as specialized in-house career development.

Pay

$55,000 – $60,000

Schedule

Hybrid/Flexible schedules