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Urban Designer

Ref #: 128976
Dom Birchall 30/10/2023
Location: Hybrid, Birmingham Not Disclosed Hybrid, Birmingham
Salary: circa.£45-65k + bens + Equity £
Type: Permanent
Seniority: Mid/Senior Level
Date: 30/10/2023
Urban Designer

Role: Urban Designer / Masterplanner

Location: Hybrid - Birmingham / Remote

Salary: circa.£45-65k (depending on experience) + benefits + equity

** You will need to be within commutable distance of Birmingham for this role (the role is hybrid) **

We're looking for a visionary Urban Designer to join our clients team in supporting their clients in shaping places that enhance people's lives.

In this hybrid role, you'll split your time between our clients Birmingham office and remote work.

Responsibilities:

  • Design of large-scale mixed-use communities
  • Develop design guidance in the form of strategic and/or detailed design codes, guides, and briefs
  • Design places that demonstrate best practice urbanism, with a practical knowledge of designing compact neighbourhoods, active travel, and landscape-led design responses
  • Supervise and support junior staff, projects, and client relationships

Qualifications:

  • Experience in preparing visions for large-scale mixed-use communities
  • Experience creating design guidance in the form of strategic and/or detailed design codes, guides, and briefs
  • Experience designing places that demonstrate best practice urbanism, with a practical knowledge of designing compact neighbourhoods, active travel, and landscape-led design responses
  • Experience managing projects, and liaising successfully with clients
  • Experience using any of the following tools: vector works, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, or SketchUp

Ideal Candidate:

  • Ambitious and keen to join an organisation that offers superb career development opportunities
  • Diligent and has an eye for detail
  • Articulate and able to communicate effectively at all levels
  • Willing to travel to our Birmingham office for part of the week

Package:

  • Basic salary: circa.£45-65,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Benefits include:

  • Employee equity
  • Annual bonus
  • Enhanced wellbeing support
  • Career progression opportunities

Company:

  • Our client is a multi-disciplinary practice that strives to create places that enhance people's lives. they use a collaborative approach in their projects, taking into account the surrounding context and the needs of our society, all the while working to combat climate change. Their team consists of Architects, Town Planners, Urban Designers, Landscape Architects, and Graphic Designers.

Why Join Our Client?

  • They offer an extremely generous employee equity scheme, allowing you to share in the success of the firm (which consistently shows double-digit year on year growth).
  • They offer an excellent, flexible, modern, and welcoming working environment.
  • They empower our employees, allowing them to make decisions on projects that will aid in their delivery and customer satisfaction.
  • They are known for developing future leaders from within the business and offer unrivalled professional development opportunities.
  • They appreciate our people, have a low staff turnover, and are constantly looking to improve/develop their employee offering.

Interested? If you think you're right for this Urban Designer role, then click the 'Apply Now' button, send us your CV, and we'll get in touch around next steps.

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