Senior Urban Designer
AECOM
Date: 1 day ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time

Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World.
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
Job Description
- Responsible for initiating and developing engineering drawings through completion for assigned projects in conformance with the requirements, applicable codes, and design criteria established by the project’s discipline engineers.
- Under direct supervision, completes design assignments of moderate complexity.
- Under general supervision, develops engineering drawings of moderate complexity.
- Applies a solid level of understanding within a specific discipline.
- Familiar with codes, permits, and software applications related to the discipline.
- Understands the process of preparing designs and drawings using project specifications and discipline-associated written and verbal instructions in accordance with established design practices, standards, and procedures.
- Basic understanding of Engineer’s process of performing and verifying design calculations to support the overall project design.
- Fully understands the purpose and use of vendor documents and reviews discipline supplier documents for accuracy.
- Basic knowledge of the use of requisitions and the role of materials management.
- Assists in the collection of data on manpower, man-hour, and labor costs requirements for design staff to aid in evaluating the budget.
- Basic knowledge of cost estimating methods and performs material take-offs for the discipline.
- Intermediate knowledge of discipline’s materials costs and concept of cost analysis and forecasting.
- Basic knowledge of the project change control process and can identify a potential change.
- Basic understanding of the discipline’s equipment and material lists.
- Bachelor’s degree (Masters preferred) in a relevant design profession such as Master Planning / Urban Design / Architecture
- Strong design and management skills.
- Capable of working on own initiative or as part of a larger multidisciplinary team.
- Able to mentor and help subordinates and peers to achieve career progression.
- Able to discuss career goals and aspirations.
- Assisting in managing teams preparing zoning and development control regulations, guidelines, processes and procedures.
- Must be conversant of the evolving standards of the profession primarily with respective to collaborative and multi-disciplinary design.
- Architectural and urban design, and landscape design expertise to create holistic built environments.
Additional Information
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
ReqID: J10126098
Business Line: U&P
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: ME and Africa
Career Area: Design
Work Location Model: Hybrid
Legal Entity: AECOM Arabia
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