Senior Urban Planner

3 weeks ago


المملكة العربية السعودية, Saudi Arabia Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Full time

Role Title: Senior Designer /Senior Urban Designer /Planner/Architect

Organizational Level: Senior Professional

Community of Practice: City Design

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. Together we can achieve great things.

SOM, one of the most influential design firms in the world, is seeking innovative, creative, independent, and critical thinkers who aspire to the highest standards of excellence. Join our collaborative design practice as an Senior Urban Planner for the opportunity to build a strong and thriving career.

Desired skills and expertise:
- Professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.- Professional licensure process is close to completion; LEED accreditation strongly preferred.- Minimum 6 years of experience or equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities.- Significant experience in large-scale planning, mixed-use and transit oriented- development, and consistently demonstrated facility working in a fast-paced and intensely collaborative professional environment.- Effectively communicates internally with project teams and externally with consultants and clients through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.- Demonstrates expertise in AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, Lumion, parametric and rendering software, and other graphic software as well as Adobe Creative Suite, Google Suite and Microsoft Office; Revit proficiency a plus.

SOM offers opportunities to work on transformational projects, competitive salaries, health insurance, wellness, retirement and financial and other work/life plans.

Position Responsibilities
- Serves as an emerging leader of the CDP Team. Consistently demonstrates a highly disciplined and effective work ethic.
- Demonstrates an advanced 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.
- Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision-making quality with a high attention to precision and accuracy at a project level.
- Envisions and develops diagrams, renders site plans, and contributes to all manner of graphic and visual production.
- Effectively implements quality control standards for deliverables.
- Creates and innovates with a strong conceptual design ability applied to complex projects at divergent scales and in varying geographic and social contexts; integrates interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the design of large projects.
- Actively collaborates at a project, consultant team, and client team level by critically and constructively evaluating ideas. Contributes to and actively participates within the studio and office.
- Manages time and workload of own work efforts and those of others to meet project task deadlines and commitments, with occasional interaction and direction from team leaders.
- clearly defines team member expectations and responsibilities, empowers others, and delegates where appropriate based on team members’ recognized abilities and potential.
- Inspires and leads others by example, participates in staff mentoring and training,
- Conducts and increasingly directs high-level research, precedent, and relevant scale studies;
Leadership Responsibilities
- Inspires and leads others by example, participates in staff mentoring and training, clearly defines team member expectations and responsibilities, empowers others, and delegates where appropriate based on team members’ recognized abilities and potential.
- Directly supervises staff and is committed to direct reports’ professional development.
- Develops and engages in talent strategy to find specialists, leaders, and future professionals for the firm through resume review and interviews.
- In collaboration with team members, develops a clear and consistent work plan to achieve the project budget, deliverables, and schedule.
- Actively engages in internal and external professional development opportunities.
- Contributes to the implementation of sustainable strategies in all project assignments and the associated development of staff knowledge.
- Contributes to the development of standards, policies, and procedures.
- Protects SOM from financial and legal risk.

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