Senior Urban Designer

Due to the tremendous growth occurring, we currently have an opportunity for a Senior Urban Designer/Planner to work in a multidisciplinary team of designers, planners and engineers. The fast-paced work environment enables team members to work on a variety of projects. This is an ideal opportunity for an individual looking to develop their international experience with a world-renowned multidisciplinary consultant.

• Contribute to the design and delivery of a variety of projects often happening concurrently.

• Take ownership of medium to large scale design and production packages under the supervision of the Design/Project Director.

• Organise and graphicly develop client presentations.

• Work to a programme for deliverables and advise senior staff of any issues which may affect delivery.

• Work within agreed design standards and parameters with senior staff.

• Ensure the quality of deliverables meet the expectations of senior staff.

• Work within a multidisciplinary, multicultural team.

• Undertake technical co-ordination with other WSP teams and third party subconsultants

• Degree of post graduate qualification in urban design, urban planning landscape architecture, or related field and preferably with a professional affiliation (or eligible for membership)

• Candidates will ideally have minimum 7-10 years relevant working experience in urban design, urban planning and master planning.

• Lead the production of high-quality urban planning, design and master planning project submissions in the UAE and the wider Middle East and Africa

• Lead in the preparation of technical bids and fee proposals for master planning and urban design projects and other major infrastructure projects where appropriate;

• Strong design and graphics capabilities and ability to communicate ideas via various visual and graphic media hand drawn and computer graphics.

• Fully conversant with Adobe Creative Suite with demonstrable graphics and visualisation skills.

• Competent in PowerPoint, MS Word, Excel and AutoCAD.

• Experience in working within a multidisciplinary team - including external subconsultants - is essential.

• Strong design management, report production and coordination skills

• An understanding of sustainability issues within the public realm. (LEED or similar experience and advantage)

• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.

• Capable of working on own initiative or as part of a larger multidisciplinary team.

• Have a logical and organized approach to project delivery of project outputs.

• Will be required to travel within the Middle East region to projects in a variety of geographical locations, including Saudi Arabia.

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