Part 1 Architectural Assistant - 12 Month Placement (London)

Jacobs; London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Part 1 Architectural Assistant for a 12-month placement in London. This role involves working within a multi-disciplinary design team to deliver innovative design solutions across various sectors. Candidates should possess a degree in architecture and be qualified to RIBA Part I level. Strong design communication skills and a proactive mindset are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Seeking a year out position prior to commencing Part II.
• Advanced English language skills required.
• Highly self-motivated with ability to work unsupervised.

Responsibilities

• Deliver design solutions across multiple sectors.
• Collaborate with architects in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Prepare, review, and refine design proposals.

Skills

Design communication skills

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Team player

Proactive mindset

Education

Degree in Architecture

Qualified to RIBA Part I level

Tools

Autodesk Revit

Job description

Part 1 Architectural Assistant - 12 Month Placement (London)

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At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.

What We Do At Jacobs

At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems, reinforcing our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology – we’re integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.

About The Opportunity

As Cities & Places, we can create thriving places across different scales from regions to cities, neighbourhoods to individual buildings, by offering an integrated design approach. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build upon strength to develop an interdisciplinary planning, design and delivery practice that is uniquely Jacobs, that sets the direction for the industry, and is home to the very best and brightest design thinkers, disruptors, technical experts, visionaries and storytellers.

Our business unit brings together engineers, architects, surveyors, urban designers, project managers and transport planners to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients both nationally and internationally.

Role Outline/Responsibilities

A key enabler behind our growth and work winning strategy is the development of the Architecture team in the UK. To support this strategic objective Cities and Places are recruiting a number of engineering and architectural professionals to work within our design teams in the UK and be an integral part of delivering high-value solutions to our clients.

We are looking for a Part 1 Architectural Assistant to join our business unit in the Cities & Places UK Architecture team. Based in the London office, but with work across the UK and Europe, you will work alongside our Architects within a multi-disciplinary design team set-up, delivering design solutions across multiple sectors from Public sector, Defence, Transportation, Commercial, Pharmaceutical and Mixed-Use development.

We deliver projects across all stages of the building design and construction process from initial strategic briefing, where client objectives and feasibility studies are conducted; through to development of conceptual and technical proposals, to construction phase delivery.

You will need strong design skills to and we will provide support and mentoring to develop you skills to work in collaboration with other project team members in preparing, reviewing, and refining design proposals using various media. This includes traditional methods such as hand-sketching to develop design concepts and detailed design solutions, through to project delivery using BIM (Building Information Modelling).

Key requirements for this role are good and communication skills with a collaborative working pro-active mindset. Regular check-in meetings to review progress, design decisions, and openly air any blockers with the UK project team will be essential and form part of your day to day work ethic. You will need to be able to work both independently and as part of a wider project team.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

• Qualified to RIBA Part l level and seeking a year out position prior to commencing part II.
• Degree in Architecture.
• Knowledge of BIM based delivery including Autodesk Revit
• Good Design communication skills in drawing and written formats
• Advanced English language skills
• Good problem solving, attention to detail, with a desire to come up with practical solutions
• Highly self-motivated with ability to work unsupervised
• Team player able to work effectively within different teams
• Proactive working mindset with flexible-working approach - able to work on a wide range of design projects
  
  
  

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Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to apply to Jacobs, please let us know.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Civil Engineering, Design Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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