Junior Designer, Architecture

About the Role

At SOM, we are a collective committed to shaping a better future for our clients, communities, and planet. We aspire to create the most sustainable, impactful work through creative, interdisciplinary teams with all the resources and diversity of a global firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development of an aspect of a project under the direct supervision of project leadership.
• Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem-solving, and decision quality with high attention to precision and accuracy at a task-specific level.
• Produces presentation and contract deliverables such as diagrams, 3D models, drawings, renderings, physical models, and animations.
• Effectively communicates internally through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• Creates and innovates with strong conceptual design ability.
• Integrates interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the design of a project component.
• Actively collaborates at a project team level by critically and constructively evaluating ideas.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of building materials, systems, specifications, codes, details, and construction techniques.
• Effectively uses appropriate tools to design and document at all project phases.
• Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with frequent interaction and direction from Project Leadership.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, parametric and rendering software, and Adobe Suite.
• Proficiency in Google Workspace.

Qualifications

• Completion of a professional degree in Architecture or a related field.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• A portfolio must be submitted for this role. Portfolios should be one PDF attachment, 10-20 pages, maximum 5 MB.