Urban Designer

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.
** Success at SOM Means
**** Position Responsibilities
*** Consistently demonstrates a highly disciplined and effective work ethic.
* Serves as an emerging leader of the CDP Team.
* Generates sophisticated planning and design ideas.
* Conducts and increasingly directs high-level research, precedent, and relevant scale studies;
* 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.
* 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.
* Is able to enrich design concepts through sophisticated knowledge, demonstrated research acumen, and expert application of technical, visualization, and other sophisticated communication strategies
* 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 while guiding and teaching less experienced staff.
** Management Responsibilities
*** Participates actively in project design and technical discussions and decision making.
* Communicates actively through weekly meetings, assisting with issuing meeting minutes and accurate project record keeping and sharing project information and correspondence.
* Supports owner/client relationship and expectations to allow SOM and team to work effectively, efficiently and collaboratively.
* Supports Senior Project Manager to initiate, monitor and maintain project schedule and work plan including schedule of meetings, presentations and project milestones / deliverables.
* Supports Senior Project Manager to initiate, monitor and maintain project plan and financial performance of project.
** 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.
* In collaboration with team members, contributes to a clear and consistent work plan to achieve the project budget, deliverables, and schedule.
* Actively engages in internal 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.
** Minimum Qualifications
*** Professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
* Professional licensure or certification process is close to completion, LEED accreditation preferred.
* Minimum 4 years of professional experience or equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities.
* Experience in large-scale planning, mixed-use and transit oriented development in North America, and demonstrated facility working in a fast-paced and intensely collaborative professional environment.  International project experience is a plus.
* Fluency in both written and spoken Spanish is preferred.
* Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision-making quality with a high attention to detail, precision and accuracy at a project component level.
* Actively collaborates at a…