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AECOM Senior Associate - Landscape in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Company Description
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Job Description
AECOM are currently seeking a dynamic and creative Senior Associate of Landscape Architecture to join our growing Urbanism + Planning studio, based in Dubai. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and have a keen eye for detail, we would love to hear from you. Join us in our mission to design the extraordinary and redefine the built environment.
As a Senior Associate at AECOM, you will play a pivotal role in leading the implementation of strategic initiatives for teams or units within the Landscape Studio. Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing project delivery, ensuring positive outcomes, and contributing to the development of high-quality designs. Collaborating closely with Directors, you will actively participate in the formulation and execution of business development plans and marketing activities. This involves cultivating a strong market presence, expanding our client base, and securing future planning and design projects for the Landscape practice.
Responsibilities:
Demonstrate the management and delivery of high value complex multi-disciplinary projects, with the ability to work directly with the Associate Director and Director levels.
Provide design and technical direction on projects to ensure high quality of design work.
Be a technical lead for large-scale projects with a strong capability to coordinate multiple disciplines and communicate such requirements.
Work with key client accounts leading client and project meetings. Has the ability to independently manage client expectations and deliverables to ensure alignment with contracted scope.
Lead and facilitates key client workshops and board of directors/CEO’s presentations.
Demonstrate the ability to lead competition submissions.
Plan and conduct design and creative review sessions for ongoing projects and competitions.
Evidence of delivering design projects to site. Understands construction programs and site team requirements in terms of appropriate resources to provide design, technical and site-based support.
Expected to hold regular and scheduled internal project reviews based on design appropriateness, technical accuracy and buildability, construction budget and overall package quality and thoroughness.
Manage project financials and deliverables
Ability to lead and manage multi-disciplinary bids, proposals and establishing winning themes and defining differentiators. Understands pricing and qualification aspects and establish price winning
strategies.
Managing and mentor staff through career path, establishing plans for short- and long-term development goals.
Qualifications
Bachelors or Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Urbanism, or other relevant area of expertise.
Minimum 14+ years of experience
Registered professional.
Demonstrate expertise or can operate programs in: parametric modelling, BIM, project management.
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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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: J10104302
Business Line: U&P
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: ME and Africa
Career Area: Design
Work Location Model: On-Site