Your Role
As a Gensler Technical Designer, you will tap into your boundless creativity to contribute towards the design of unique environments, providing exemplary design knowledge from conception to completion of projects working across all design stages.
What You Will Do
- Participate in all project phases, including programming, conceptual designs, presentations, schematic design, design development, construction documents and production.
- Collaborate with design team, clients, consultants, contractors, manufacturers, and other vendors to meet overall project objectives.
- Produce graphic presentations, 3D renderings, plans, elevations, details, and sections through detailed construction drawings.
- Utilize hand rendering techniques to communicate design concepts.
- Support project sustainability targets throughout project phases and actively engage in delivering them.
- Study sustainable design strategies in every project stage and investigate solutions to sustainable design challenges.
- Collaborate with the team to optimize sustainability performance through design iterations and research.
- Engage in climate focused analysis and studies for each project.
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in architecture or equivalent.
- 4-7 years of related project experience.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Outstanding graphic presentation and written & verbal communication skills.
- Creative, original thinking and technically biased, demonstrated through a strong creative and technical portfolio.
- Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines efficiently.
- Proficiencyin modeling using 2D/3D software, such as Revit, Octane, 3dViz, 3ds MAX, and/or RhinoutilizingV-Ray.
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
- Knowledge in sustainable design principlesrequired.
- LEED, WELL, Fitwel, LFA or other rating systems preferable.
- Demonstrate a collaborative and integrated approach towards achieving high sustainability project goals.
- Motivated to grow knowledge and experience in sustainability on a personal and a team level.
Your Design Technology Qualifications
Essential:
- Good working knowledge and experience in Autodesk Revit for design authoring, documentation, dataextractsand project delivery.
- Good knowledge and experience with the strategic planning, and setup of BIM projects.
- Good knowledge and experience with collaboration within the BIM context, including cloud-based markups, consultant coordination and clash detection.
- Basic understanding and familiarity with interoperability workflows between various design tools such as,AutoCad , Revit, Rhino, etc.
Desirable:
- Basic understanding and familiarity in Rhinoceros for design authoring.
- Basic understanding and familiarity with real-time rendering processes, and material creation & management within the context of integrated BIM and parametric workflows.
- Understanding of the capabilities and application of Information Management tools such as Aconex, Asite , Newforma, etc.
Applications we work with:
- Design Authoring - Revit, Rhino, Autocad , Navisworks
- Collaboration - BIM360
- Computational Design - Grasshopper, Dynamo
- Building Performance Simulation - Insight, Sefaira, Diva, Ladybug tools
- Visualisation - Vray , Enscape , Twinmotion , 3DSMax
- Graphics & Productivity - Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite
- Experiential - Unreal Engine, Unity
Development - C#, Python
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Life at Gensler
As a people-first organization, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From internal design competitions to research grants to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability and wellness programs. We also offer profit sharing and twice annual bonus opportunities.
As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.
NOTICE TO APPLICANTS
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