London, UK
Junior urban designer
at Benoy
Benoy is hiring a junior urban designer to join its team in London.
Benoy is a global family of design experts specialising in architecture, masterplanning and interior design. Balancing creative vision with commercial viability, Benoy works with clients to create iconic destinations that strengthen communities and deliver lasting economic value.
Unconstrained by sectors or building formats, Benoy’s people focus on agile, flexible and experiential design. Using ‘creative commerciality’ to solve problems and unlock potential, they believe that when design solutions are culturally relevant, human-centric and sustainable, they enhance social wellbeing and stimulate economic prosperity.
The junior urban designer’s role is to efficiently and effectively carry out tasks set by the urban designers and senior urban designers in the team. This will include research and analysis work, masterplan optioning, devising strategies and solutions to briefs, and contributing to the production of masterplans, architectural schemes and public realm projects with various tools including sketching, diagramming, 3D modelling and physical modelling.
About the role
Project delivery and skillset:
- generate excellent design sketches, diagrams, plans, models and renderings for reports and presentations
- have a good graduate level of knowledge around the subjects of urban design and planning, and an awareness of current discourse around the future of cities and sustainability
- deliver high quality work with guidance from urban designers and senior urban designers, demonstrating excellent design skills
- have an awareness and willingness to learn more about spatial and environmental analysis, big data and movement analysis, and an appreciation of planning policy, cultural contexts, and heritage
Team membership:
- demonstrate a positive attitude towards work and team activities, and a willingness to develop positive relations with team members and provide assistance as and when needed
- an ability to manage time, workload and ability to work within deadlines and under pressure, while remaining calm and professional at all times
- contribute to the practice’s innovation, research and development initiatives and have an avid interest in the future of cities, masterplanning and sustainability
Client relationships:
- provide support to team members with project / client presentations and meetings as required.
- ability to present ideas and work to the team if required to.
About you
Required skills and qualifications:
- a bachelor’s degree in architecture or urban design or equivalent. Other relevant disciplines (e.g. planning, geography, property development & planning, etc) will only be considered if there is sufficient evidence of relevant work and experience in the candidate’s portfolio
- excellent design portfolio, and an avid interest in pursuing urban design and masterplanning as a career path
- proficiency with computer applications is essential (including, but not limited to AutoCAD, SketchUp, any GIS software, Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office). Additional spatial, parametric and visualisation tools (CityEngine, Infraworks, Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Ladybug) are of great benefit
- strong interpersonal and communication skills (written skills are a benefit)
Interested candidates should please send a CV and a portfolio that demonstrates their best work and range of skills via the ‘apply for job’ button below.