Intermediate Urban Designer

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**Job Description** Our Mexico City office is looking for you! Arcadis is a global team of dedicated and experienced architects, engineers, planners, designers and technology professionals who share a common desire – to help our clients create livable, sustainable, and advanced urban environments. From high-rises to industrial buildings, schools to state-of-the-art hospitals, transit stations to highways, airports to toll systems, bike lanes to parks, we design every aspect of a truly integrated city for people to live, work, and play. Our collaborative and combined approach focuses not only on creating the best solutions today, but also determining the right solutions for tomorrow. We believe cities in the future must be designed with intelligent systems, sustainable buildings, efficient infrastructure, and a human touch. Arcadis’ Architecture & Urban Planning team has the opportunity to participate in large scale design projects and create interesting living spaces. Our Mexico City Office has been continuously working to improve the quality of life in Latin America, United States and Canada, by developing several architecture projects in Mexico, Guatemala, US and Canada, and more than 7 Master Plans in Guatemala, 2 TOD planning projects in Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, the San Pedro Sula Urban Master Plan & the prefeasibility study for a Cable Car system in Chapultepec, among others. -- We request that all applicants submit RESUME AND PORTFOLIO (in English) highlighting relevant work experience; please limit PDF files to 10MB. Please note that any of the applications that don’t include a RESUME AND PORTFOLIO will be disregarded -- **Role accountabilities:** - Working with the team of Urban Design and Master Planning in a range of urban design, urban planning and strategic visioning in local and regional projects. - Producing key Landscape Architecture documents like guidelines, palettes, standards, etc. - Collaborate with the Urban Design Team to generate creative visioning ideas and differentiators directly related to the territorial advantages of the site. - Produce high quality 3D renderings or sketches of key visioning ideas in a clear and compelling way to convey key experiences, moments or strategic moves for placemaking projects. - Assist in the preparation of overall planning, urban design, and regional planning reports. - Assist in writing proposals, conducting research, policies, and guidelines, etc. - Preparation of accurate and readable drawings, graphics, maps, and illustrations using CAD, GIS, Adobe Suite and SketchUp. - Synthesize and conceptualize diagrams according to urban design and landscape architecture concepts. - Developing high-quality & attractive presentations for project deliverables & visioning workshops. **Qualifications** - Completed Bachelor degree of Architecture - Spanish Native speaker and full command of the English language. - 5+ years of related work experience in urban design and master planning. - Experience in large architectural & urban design projects will be beneficial. - Exceptional graphic communication skills - Proficiency in creating compelling and high-quality 3D renderings or sketches to effectively convey key experiences and spatial concepts. - Site analysis experience with a territorial approach, identifying challenges, opportunities & key landscape differentiators. - Able to produce design guidelines and material, color & plant palettes. - Ability to deliver on time challenging projects and deadlines. - Fluent in AutoCAD, Adobe Suite (Illustrator, In-Design and Photoshop) and SketchUp - Professional experience in GIS would be beneficial. - Ability to work independently and thrive in a creative, collaborative environment. - Organized, self-motivated, detail-oriented, and proactive, with strong multi-tasking and time management skills. **Additional Information** **Why Arcadis?** We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law #LI-PS2