Description:
As an Architect at FRM Urban, you will be pivotal in designing and implementing plans that shape urban environments. This role offers opportunities to work on transformative projects that redefine urban living.
Required Skills and Expertise:
- 4-7 years of professional experience
- Candidates must already be based in either Dubai or London. Relocation for this role will not be considered
- A Professional Degree in Architecture, Urban Design, or Landscape Architecture is essential.
- Experience in all phases of design (Schematic Design through Construction Administration)
- Experience with built projects or projects currently under construction
- Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem-solving, and decision-making quality.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proficiency in design software including AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, Lumion, parametric and rendering software, along with expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office. Familiarity with GIS, Revit, and other technical tools is advantageous.
- Strong graphic, visualisation, and rendering skills are advantageous.
- Research and analytical abilities to inform creative solutions and support data-driven design approaches.
Position 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.
- Apply FRM Urban 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. Can enrich design concepts through knowledge, research, and proficient application of technical and visualisation 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.
- Brings energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and a disciplined work ethic.