Urban Planning Specialist
2 days ago
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The Urban Designer will be responsible for delivering high-quality designs through various project stages, coordinating and producing design documentation as part of a collaborative project team. This role involves performing specific tasks within broader assignments, guiding junior professionals, and providing design guidance when necessary. The Urban Designer will work on detailed or routine project delivery assignments involving graphical representations of ideas, basic report writing, and data set calculations.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive market and desktop research objectives and topics according to project briefs and office thought leadership topics. Streamline relevant research information and outputs for senior staff review.
- Read, qualify, quantify, and graphically represent urban design standards applicable to projects and apply the same to design tasks. Determine the correct source of planning and urban design regulatory guidelines per region or authority and present key findings to senior urban designers and peers.
- Fully develop the design content by applying design and technical knowledge to ensure the production of high-quality outputs by following project timelines.
- Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables and work on detailed or routine assignments involving calculations, sketching diagrams, dataset development, drawing, and reports. Identify discrepancies in results and propose an approach to solving new problems encountered.
- Work under moderate supervision to perform tasks according to agreed-upon budget and schedule. Coordinate with other disciplines or business lines as applicable to ensure continuity of the design process.
- Understand the impact of integrating the work of other internal disciplines or external consultants/stakeholders in the design sequence and the output of deliverables.
- Adequately represent site reviews opportunities and constraints for project and client discussions. Question thoughts and validate design ideas after thoroughly reading the site's characteristics.
- Presents good understanding of urban design principles considering urban scale and hierarchy.
- Propose relevant and applicable urban design typologies for further review and discussions with senior designers.
- Identify international and local benchmarks and precedents for further studies and steer the review effectively as per project requirements.
- Requires ability to structure urban design deliverables and reports according to scope of services and applicable planning authorities' requirements.
- Conduct fair descriptive writing of urban design principles and urban design guidelines.
- Think in 3-dimensional manner and be able to represent ideas verbally and graphically.
- Acquire definitions of urban design attributes used across urban Design projects.
- Translate and represent innovative design solutions through digital tools and personal skills.
- Identify new potential areas of innovation and improvement from which the urban design team can benefit.
- Actively participate in internal workshops and put together summary outcome reports for internal and external distributions.
About AECOM
AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023.
We provide a wide array of compensation benefits and wellbeing programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We foster a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds, and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
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