Principal Urban Designer

Join to apply for the Principal Urban Designer role at Marrons. We are opening a hub in Manchester and are looking for a Principal Urban Designer to join the team!

Benefits:

• A competitive salary with great benefits including private medical, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and a bonus day off for your birthday.
• A varied workload working on a variety of projects including residential strategic land promotion, urban regeneration and major mixed-use sustainable urban extensions across the UK.
• The opportunity to join a vibrant, forward-thinking team with the support of friendly, approachable partners who encourage and support your career development.
• Hybrid working from either our soon to open Manchester hub (opportunity to work from our other North West hubs in the meantime).

The role:

• Developing design solutions and strategies for a range of projects encompassing residential strategic land promotion, urban regeneration and major mixed-use sustainable urban extensions across the UK.
• Making significant contributions to major projects or managing a portfolio of smaller projects from feasibility through concept and sketch design including outline planning.
• Preparing high-quality visualisations from sketch through to illustrative and presentation standard.
• Producing high-quality work and creative solutions for clients which are well researched and structured.
• Supporting the team and making an effective contribution to its leadership.
• Contributing towards seeking, winning, and delivering new work.
• Delivering excellent service to clients and providing clear and succinct advice whilst building strong relationships, managing expectations, and adding value to their business.
• Working with the wider team on the delivery of the business strategy and related activities for growth.

What you’ll need:

• Previous UK based experience working in a planning or architectural practice on residential/mixed-use projects for national house builders or housing developers.
• Degree in a design related course.
• Good working knowledge of current urban design issues in a UK context.
• A strong design flair with an interest in delivering high-quality projects from a strategic masterplan level to the details of individual built area and urban spaces.
• Competence in the use of the full range of design focused packages including AutoCad, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Sketch Up, as well as Microsoft Office suite.
• Confidence and competence in drawing and sketching by hand.
• The ability to work and manage projects, with a strong attention to detail.

Agile Working And Additional Information:

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work. We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

Additional information: Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward. Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted.

Equal opportunities:

Marrons is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences.

About Marrons:

Welcome to Marrons, a rapidly growing team of town planning, socio-economic, heritage, master-planning, design and architectural specialists committed to providing expert advice nationwide. We handle planning matters of all types and scales, serving major house builders, developers, manufacturers, investment companies, and more across the UK.