Senior Urban Designer

at  Ridge Partners LLP

What’s the Opportunity
As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, we now have opportunities for talented Senior Urban Designer to join our experienced and growing Architectural team, based at our Reading, Theale office.
You will be working on exciting projects including world class technical facilities, hotels, leisure and stadia buildings, education buildings, offices and private one-off commissions along with an ever-growing portfolio of complex and diverse projects.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Working on masterplans detailed design throughout the South and home counties.
• Producing masterplans at the early stages of design including feasibility reports, full detail design, access statements and outline masterplanning documents
• Providing architectural, regeneration, masterplanning and urban design services to a variety of clients across the home counties
• Look at the overall designs and reviews to improve any existing development and give advice on ongoing projects
• Produce hand-drawn and digital designs for client presentations
• Supporting the wider team and review any existing developments
• Regularly communicate and liaise with different stakeholders of projects and clients

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• Degree or professional qualification in Planning and/or Urban Design
• Recent and relevant planning / urban design experience
• Sound technical ability in planning / urban design work
• Experience in dealing with local planning
• A good feel and flair for landscape as well as architectural design and masterplanning skills

To be successful in this role, you will need to be an excellent communicator who can articulate complicated issues between our clients and our highly skilled project teams. You will also need to show ambition and a willingness to learn whilst demonstrating a high-level diligence and organisational skills.
Ridge is a Built Environment Consultancy. We provide our clients with access to a wide range of integrated expertise and professional disciplines to help them transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.
Our people make what we do possible, helping us lead the way with quality, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit. That’s why we challenge them to be the best they can be and offer exceptional training and career development opportunities at all levels.
Ridge and Partners LLP

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Working on masterplans detailed design throughout the South and home counties.
• Producing masterplans at the early stages of design including feasibility reports, full detail design, access statements and outline masterplanning documents
• Providing architectural, regeneration, masterplanning and urban design services to a variety of clients across the home counties
• Look at the overall designs and reviews to improve any existing development and give advice on ongoing projects
• Produce hand-drawn and digital designs for client presentations
• Supporting the wider team and review any existing developments
• Regularly communicate and liaise with different stakeholders of projects and client

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• Degree or professional qualification in Planning and/or Urban Design
• Recent and relevant planning / urban design experience
• Sound technical ability in planning / urban design work
• Experience in dealing with local planning
• A good feel and flair for landscape as well as architectural design and masterplanning skill