Urban Designer Jobs

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

AECOM is actively seeking a highly motivated Urban Designer for employment in our Dallas Office (Hybrid). This opportunity is anticipated to begin before the end of the year (2023).

About Buildings + Places & Urbanism and Planning.

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, and other similar businesses.

It is also home to our Urbanism and Planning practice, a collaborative of designers, economists, data scientists, policy researchers, and social activists who are advancing an agenda of progressive city building. This position’s primarily responsibilities is to support our national efforts in leading urban design initiatives and to support the development and growth of our design studios.

AECOM is searching for candidates that are detail focused, capable of working on multi-disciplinary projects, and work well individually as well as on a team. Imagine working on rewarding projects within a diverse culture and having access to exceptional training and career development opportunities. Working within our Urbanism and Planning Practice means being part of a global team, working with award-winning professionals across the world. Aspire to be a key player on some of the best projects regionally, with opportunities to work on projects nationally or internationally.

The following are qualities we are looking for in this requisition:

• We seek designers with an understanding of building massing and block design; housing and commercial typologies; site circulation; programming; master planning; public processes and community outreach.
• Applies a basic level of understanding on how urban design and physical planning affects the built environment and can direct junior staff in the production of creating plans
• Candidates must show strong graphic skills and ability to communicate ideas and concepts through clear diagrams and data visualization.
• Under limited supervision, completes design assignments of limited complexity
• Responsible for initiating and developing site plans, based on direction and feedback from project team
• Understand how to conduct existing conditions site analysis
• Designer that are collaborative and have a professional work ethic
• Feels comfortable working on projects that are a team effort, but can also lead internal team assignments

Qualifications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• BA/BS +2 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in medium to large scale-urban design projects
• Ability to manage day-to-day requests from clients
• Master’s degree in Urban planning, Architecture, Urban Design or other related fields
• Demonstrated experience with AutoCAD, GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, or SketchUp is preferred

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.