SOM is currently seeking a Junior Urban Designer to join their Londons office.

Position Responsibilities

• Brings energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and a disciplined work ethic to the City Design Practice.
• Actively participates as a junior member of the CDP Team.
• Becomes immersed in the SOM office thru 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Is able to enrich design concepts through knowledge, research, 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.
• Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with regular interaction and direction from project leaders and team members.

Minimum Qualifications

• Professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
• 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.
• Actively collaborates at a project team level by developing, communicating, and critically and constructively evaluating ideas.
• Effectively communicates internally through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• 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.
• LEED accreditation preferred; Revit proficiency a plus
• No Agencies Please

Portfolios must be submitted for all design positions (Architecture, Interiors, Planning, etc). Applications without work samples will not be reviewed.  Portfolios should be one PDF attachment, 10-20 pages, maximum 5 MB. Submit portfolios as part of your application in the section where the application asks you for your Resume or CV.