[Hiring] Graduate - Urban Designer @AECOM

Role Description

Graduates joining the business in a Graduate role and engaging in all elements of the ADVANCE program. The program is designed to introduce and build essential business and personal skills, helping to enhance the transition from student to professional.

Graduates are assigned duties that will provide a broad, well-rounded learning experience within the field they are joining at Graduate entry level. The ADVANCE program lasts approx. 24 months but the successful completion of the program is only to be used as an indicator for strong performance in line with other indicators (strong or above performance rating etc.)

Key Responsibilities

• Observe and identify projects and staff collaboration matters and provide an impact assessment to senior staff for mitigations and management.
• Contribute to researched based tasks and ensure quality of output is aligned with local office applied standards.
• Collect, comprehend and represent graphically zoning regulations and local regulatory frameworks and urban design guidelines in operating regions.
• Properly represent sites and project drawings in correct scales.
• Under the supervision of senior staff, prepare a qualitative and quantitative set of diagrams and drawings covering benchmark and precedent studies.
• Collect applicable design typologies relevant to project's briefs for discussions with Senior Urban Designers on relevance.
• Contribute to maintaining office physical and digital library of submitted projects, innovative urban design books and ideas.
• Analyze project briefs and project sites and work collaboratively with peers to develop comprehensive site reviews and recommendations.
• Acquire or be on path to acquire basic urban design definition of attributes used across urban design projects.
• Translate and represent innovative design solutions through digital tools and personal skills.
• Facilitate internal workshops with ability to put together summary outcome reports.
• Represent ideas and concepts graphically and develop a graphical representation of a sequential narrative.
• Be an advocate of quality procedures and continuously apply self-check procedures before issuing information and drawings.
• Report on safety issues observed in the office and outside the office during duty including near misses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design or Urban Planning.
• Master’s degree in Urban Design or related discipline.
• 0-2 years of experience, with a track record of delivering urban design projects and experience in collaboration with clients, design and engineering disciplines on high profile international urban development projects.
• Expertise in Adobe Design Collection, Sketch Up and AutoCAD in addition to knowledge of Rhino3D, Grasshopper, GIS and other urban design and city planning software.
• Strong portfolio of built work which demonstrates excellent technical capabilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits.
• Paid time off, leaves of absence.
• Voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options.
• Well-being resources, employee assistance program.
• Business travel insurance, service recognition awards.
• Retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase plan.