Urban Planner

AECOM are looking for a dynamic Urban Planner who will be responsible for developing designs through various project stages, undertaking coordination, and carrying out design documentation while working as part of the project team. Perform specific and limited portions of a broader assignment as an experienced urban planner. Guides Graduate professionals, provides design guidance where necessary and works on detailed or routine project delivery assignments involving graphical representations of ideas, basic report writing, and data set calculations. The Urban Planner focuses effort and time on implementing strategies and adopting policies, standards, and methodologies to meet customer and business needs.

Technical Excellence:

• Drive market and desktop research objectives and topics according to project briefs and office thought leadership topics. Streamline relevant research information and outputs for senior staff review. Able to steer online research promptly and more effectively.
• Read, qualify, quantify, and graphically represent urban planning standards applicable to projects and apply the same to design tasks. Determine the correct source of planning and urban planning regulatory guidelines per region or authority and present key findings to senior urban planners and peers.
• Fully develops the design content by applying design and technical knowledge to ensure the production of high-quality outputs by following project timelines.
• Participates in the interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables and works on detailed or routine assignments involving calculations, sketching, diagrams, dataset development, drawing and reports. Identifies discrepancies in results and proposes an approach to solving new problems encountered.

Team Contribution

• Advocate for quality procedures applicable to the urban planning technical practice group and continuously apply thorough self-checks and reviews of deliverables before they are shared.
• Report on safety issues observed in and outside the office during duty, including near misses.
• Understand safety in design standards and procedures and be able to report on safety inside and outside the work environment and in the design process to senior staff.
• Contribute to and participate in one of the U+P steering committees that promote integration, knowledge sharing, digital integration, or diversity and inclusion.

Client Relationship Management:

• Begins to participate in client meetings to discuss project requirements, explain/defend work, and brief the team on requirements and outcomes.