Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Dubai Jobs Careers 2022-23 Apply For Junior Designer – City Design Vacancies Today Dubai, UAE

Responsibilities
Generates planning and design ideas, conducts research, documents precedents and scale studies, develops diagrams, renders site plans, and contributes to all manner of graphic and visual production. Takes initiative to learn and apply SOM City Design Practice protocols for file management, planning and design processes, and quality control standards for deliverables
Demonstrates a basic understanding of planning and urban design concepts, building typologies and critical dimensions, utility and infrastructure systems, land development considerations and planning / zoning codes, and phasing and implementation techniques. Is able to enrich design concepts through knowledge, research, and proficient application of technical and visualization skills and effectively uses software and appropriate analogue and digital tools to design and document at all project phases.
Applies a strong conceptual design ability to projects of varying complexity and sites of divergent scales; begins to integrate interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the planning and urban design aspects of complex projects.
Effectively communicates internally through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
Actively collaborates at a project team level by developing, communicating, and critically and constructively evaluating ideas.
Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with regular interaction and direction from project leaders and team members.
Actively participates as a junior member of the CDP Team.
Brings energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and a disciplined work ethic to the City Design Practice.
Becomes immersed in the SOM office through lectures, design reviews, lunch and learns, site visits, and participation in office activities and professional development opportunities. Actively participates in the Year One Program (as appropriate).
Minimum Qualifications
Professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
LEED accreditation preferred.
Interest in large-scale planning, mixed-use and transit oriented development, and working in a fast-paced and intensely collaborative professional environment.
Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision-making quality with a high attention to detail, precision and accuracy at a task specific level.
Demonstrates proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, Lumion, parametric and rendering software, and other graphic software as well as Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office; Revit proficiency a plus.
For more information about expectations by Organizational Level review the
Competency Matrix

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Portfolios must be submitted for all design positions (Architecture, Interiors, Planning, etc). Applications without work samples will not be reviewed. Portfolios should be one PDF attachment, 10-20 pages, maximum 5 MB. Submit portfolios as part of your application in the section where the application asks you for your Resume or CV.