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Graduate/ Assistant Urban Designer

  • Location: Newport
  • Salary: £20k - 29k per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted about 1 year ago

  • Sector: Architecture, Construction
  • Contact: Lou Maskell
  • Contact Email: Lou.Maskell@anderselite.com
  • Contact Phone: 0117 317 7805
  • Expiry Date: 16 February 2024
  • Job Ref: 404634LML

Anderselite are currently working with a successful Architectural practice in the Newport area that includes sectors such as Urban Design/Masterplanning, Architecture, Landscape Planning and Design, Town Planning, EIA and Graphic Communications. The office is open plan and benefits from a friendly and sociable atmosphere.

You will join a supportive team environment with exciting career opportunities, have client exposure, enjoy outstanding professional development, and gain exposure to an innovative and exciting inter-disciplinary environment.

This client believes that it is their people and their individual talents that make us special. They work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture and one of high support and high challenge, where they are not afraid to take on new and greater responsibilities and are each individually encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally, with genuine career opportunities based on merit. They create a working environment that offers flexibility, adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private health care and a flexi-benefits package.

The role:
Work collaboratively within your team
Develop Masterplanning technical knowledge and awareness of other disciplines and services
Deliver a quality design service on a range of applications
Have good working knowledge of AutoCAD, Sketchup, Photoshop, InDesign and Revit
Support with the preparation of baseline site and context analysis, including photographic surveys of sites and their surrounding areas
Assist with preparing designs, drawings and illustrations
Produce early stage concept design options to a specific brief as required
Contribute to the design process of early stage planning applications
Assist with the co-ordination of project teams and project management, helping project leads to complete their tasks in delivering projects to time and budget
Seek opportunities to grow your own network internally and externally
You will ideally:

Have a relevant degree
Have a relevant postgraduate qualification (Urban Design Masters or PG Diploma)
Have relevant industry experiences and good knowledge of Masterplanning
Be committed to continuing your professional development with a willingness to learn and progress
Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
Be personable and professional with high levels of motivation, ambition and drive
Have excellent team-working skills
Be commercially minded and take on personal responsibility
Be committed and have an eye for detail
Have an ability to manage your own time and workload
Be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
Excellent remuneration and benefits along with training, development and career progression offered. Please apply with full cv and portfolio of work.