Urban Planner

AECOM; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading global infrastructure firm is seeking a dedicated Urban Planner in Dubai to develop designs through various project stages while collaborating with project teams. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree, 2 years of experience, and demonstrate strong urban planning principles. This position promotes the integration of critical thinking and technical design knowledge and offers comprehensive benefits. Join us to make a meaningful impact on urban environments.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits

Paid time off

Flexible work options

Employee assistance programs

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years post-undergraduate experience.
• Working towards professional membership in Urban Design or Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop designs through various project stages.
• Guide graduate professionals and provide design guidance.
• Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.

Skills

Urban planning principles

Graphical representations

Research skills

Team collaboration

Descriptive writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Master's degree preferred

Job description

The Professional is responsible for developing designs through various project stages undertaking coordination and carrying out design documentation while working as part of the project team. Perform specific and limited portions of a broader assignment as an experienced urban planner. Guides Graduate professionals provides design guidance where necessary and works on detailed or routine project delivery assignments involving graphical representations of ideas basic report writing and data set calculations. The Urban Planner focuses effort and time on implementing strategies and adopting policies standards and methodologies to meet customer and business needs.

Technical Excellence

• 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. Able to steer online research promptly and more effectively.
• Read qualify quantify and graphically represent urban planning standards applicable to projects and apply the same to design tasks. Determine the correct source of planning and urban planning regulatory guidelines per region or authority and present key findings to senior urban planners and peers.
• Fully develops the design content by applying design and technical knowledge to ensure the production of highquality outputs by following project timelines.
• Participates in the interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables and works on detailed or routine assignments involving calculations sketching diagrams dataset development drawing and reports. Identifies discrepancies in results and proposes an approach to solving new problems encountered.
• Performs work under the agreedupon budget and schedule with moderate supervision. Coordinates with other disciplines or business lines as applicable to ensure the continuity of the design process.
• Understand the impact of integrating the work of other internal disciplines or external consultants/stakeholders in the design sequence as well as the output of the deliverables.
• Adequately represent site reviews opportunities and constraints for project and client discussions. Question thoughts and validate design ideas after thoroughly reading the sites characteristics.
• Present a good understanding of urban planning principles considering urban scale and hierarchy.
• Propose relevant and applicable urban planning typologies for further review and discussions with senior planners.
• Identify international and local benchmarks and precedents for further studies and steer the review effectively as per project requirements.
• Requires the ability to structure urban planning deliverables and reports according to the scope of services and the applicable planning authorities requirements.
• Can demonstrate good descriptive writing of urban planning principles and urban planning guidelines.
• Think in a 3dimensional manner and be able to represent ideas verbally and graphically.
• Acquire definitions of urban planning attributes used across urban planning 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 planning team can benefit.
• Actively participates in internal workshops and can put together summary outcome reports for internal and external distributions.

Team Contribution

• Advocate for quality procedures applicable to the urban planning technical practice group and continuously apply thorough selfchecks and reviews of deliverables before they are shared.
• Report on safety issues observed in and outside the office during duty including near misses.
• Understand safety in design standards and procedures and be able to report on safety inside and outside the work environment and in the design process to senior staff.
• Contribute to and participate in one of the UP steering committees that promote integration knowledge sharing digital integration or diversity and inclusion.
• Observe and identify projects and staff collaboration matters and provide an impact assessment to senior staff for mitigations and management.
• Enhance teamwork across the various offices and ensure experience and knowledge sharing between urban planners.
• Ensure all graduate urban planners and other new urban planning recruits receive the required support needed to meet the expectations of the assigned tasks and integrate well with the other team members.

Client Relationship Management

• Begins to participate in client meetings to discuss project requirements explain/defend work and brief the team on requirements and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years postundergraduate experience
• Bachelors degree in the relevant discipline field. Masters degree preferred. Working towards professional membership in Urban Design or Architecture e.g. RIBA or equivalent in the relevant discipline degree.

Additional Information

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Contract

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status AECOM benefits may include medical dental vision life AD&D disability benefits paid time off leaves of absences voluntary benefits perks flexible work optionswellbeing resources employee assistance program business travel insurance service recognition awards retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan.

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