Principal Urban Designer

Location/s: London, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham; UK

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The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott Mac Donald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross‑sector skills across five key Sectors;
Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

This role sits within the cities team which forms part of the Building and Cities Unit. Our aim is to fully realise the potential of our front end consultancy skills to increase our market profile in cities based work from the earliest stages of strategy development and project creation.

Urban designers are an integral part of our cities business. They work alongside town planners and place economists to provide public sector clients with integrated master planning and placemaking services across the UK and internationally.

This role is being created to support the rapid development of our cities team and provide greater junior level urban design staff capacity to respond to existing client requirements and emerging opportunities and expand technical resource capacity.

Mott Mac Donald’s cities team undertakes projects spanning a range of complex urban contexts including:

• Town centre and urban regeneration
• Transport hubs and Transit orientated development
• Mixed use urban quarters and neighbourhood

The post holder will support senior staff in the preparation of town centre strategies, site and area based masterplans, development frameworks, feasibility studies and public realm concept designs. All projects are likely to involve stakeholder and community engagement.

Significant career development opportunities will be available including involvement in a diverse portfolio of project work, development of analytical and delivery focused urban design skills, integrated multi-disciplinary master planning and the production of high quality graphic outputs. There will be opportunities to progress to more senior urban design roles offering greater levels of responsibility including stakeholder and client liaison.

• Support business development including internal and external client relationship building
• Support the preparation of winning bids including the co‑ordination of multidisciplinary inputs and sub consultants
• Contribute to resource planning
• Project manage allocated placemaking and master planning projects including commercial and business system requirements and client liaison supporting senior staff
• Prepare key urban design outputs including reports, spatial frameworks, masterplans, site feasibility studies, design guidance
• Prepare and deliver project presentations to clients, working groups, stakeholder meetings etc
• Undertake stakeholder and community engagement to support the production of the above
• Guide and supervise junior urban designers in the production of urban design outputs ensuring that QA and graphic standards are maintained
• Contribute to the development of Mott Mac…