Associate Urban Designer

1 month ago


Melbourne, Australia Spiire Full time

Posted: 25/10/2024

Closing Date: 24/11/2024

**Job Type**: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Melbourne

Job Category: Design and Architecture

About Spiire

We are an integrated team of passionate urban designers, civil engineers, landscape architects, surveyors, town planners, water engineers, and visual media artists providing consultancy services to the property and infrastructure sectors. Our team of more than 350 people work across ten offices in VIC, NSW, SA, QLD and the ACT.

**The Opportunity**

Urban Designers are an integral part of our delivery team and come from a diverse background of experience. In this role you will enjoy the benefits that come with working in a close-knit, Melbourne based team who love to share ideas, learn off each other and achieve great results. This role will see you:

- Manage projects or parts of projects from tenders and fee proposals through to design delivery, taking responsibility for quality of work
- Facilitate multi-disciplinary workshops with engineers, surveyors, town planners, landscape architects, traffic engineers, marketing teams and the client.
- Delivering packages of work for large scale greenfield masterplanned communities around Australia
- Preparing Urban Design Frameworks for town centres
- Providing advocacy and strategic land use advice
- Due Diligence for site acquisition purposes
- Providing mentoring and support to junior team members

**About You**

First and foremost, you share our passion for good urban design outcomes. You seek to extend your design skills and love sharing knowledge with others. You have experience managing medium to large scale projects and love working within a multidisciplinary consultancy where your work is integrated with others. You will come to us with:

- A keen interest in working in a multidisciplinary consultancy where you work with engineers, landscape architects and surveyors to see projects come to life
- Demonstrated ability to lead, with good influencing, motivating and delegation skills
- Competent workshop facilitation skills and the confidence to lead and manage meetings to ensure effective outcomes
- Previous experience in urban design within a greenfield environment will be highly regarded.
- A tertiary qualification in urban design, planning, architecture or other relevant study

**Our Culture**

At Spiire, we believe our culture is our difference. We’re a forward-thinking, people-centric organisation that recognises the importance of working as one team towards a common goal. As a successful and growing employee-owned business, we recognise and reward the contributions of our people and provide real opportunities and pathways for career progression.

Here’s a snapshot of what’s on offer:

- An awesome CBD location office that emanates our corporate value of fun Includes a breakfast bar, table tennis, happy hour every Friday, creative spaces and a wellness room.
- Health and wellbeing events promoting physical and mental wellbeing
- An extension of leave benefits including study leave, volunteer days and attractive parental leave policy



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