B+H Architects is currently seeking a Senior Urban Designer to join our dynamic and progressive team in our Toronto Studio. We are excited to build our capacity as leaders in delivering viable, healthy, vibrant, inclusive, and diverse communities across North America and globally. B+H offers the opportunity for candidates to grow their skills in a local and global collaborative environment surrounded by passionate thought leaders who are adamant about pushing boundaries, thinking differently, advancing design excellence, and having fun in everything we do.

As a Senior Urban Designer at B+H, through our collaborative approach, you will be able to influence all sectors and disciplines to ensure that we all are walking our talk by encouraging our clients and teams to be BOLD enough to deliver the best HUMAN environments and experiences possible.

A Bit About Us – B+H and Surbana Jurong Group (SJ Group)

B+H is a global, award-winning consulting and design solutions firm founded on a legacy of 70 years of creating bold and inspiring places for people. With a broad spectrum of sectors and services, we leverage the core skills of a globally collaborative transdisciplinary architecture and design practice to understand, create, and articulate transformative solutions for the most complex and challenging projects. The global B+H design team includes 400 architects, urban designers, landscape architects, interior designers, organizational design and biomimicry specialists, place experience designers, researchers, analysts, and brand strategists. We are curious place makers, strategists, storytellers, and creative human beings who believe in embracing change and challenging the status quo to deliver resilient, healthy environments that make positive contributions to their communities characterized by vibrant human experiences. We work together as one of eight world renowned sister firms, owned by the Surbana Jurong Group, recognized and awarded as a collective of problem solvers for the built environment, continually reimagining ways to create smart and sustainable futures.

At B+H we push the limits of creativity by acknowledging humanity in the creative process. We believe in letting things get a little messy while we let our minds explore the bounds of what’s possible. Once we’ve found something truly new, then we reassemble it into a well-executed project our clients expect from us. We strongly believe in creating a safe environment backed and driven by HR and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging mandates to enable the best working, learning, and playing environment for our staff.

Your Role

As a team player at a Senior level, you will be expected to:

  • Be a strong team leader and support the Urban Design Principal and other B+H leaders.
  • Manage the delivery of projects including project and team management and organization, project scheduling, and budget control.
  • Manage and develop client relations, coordinate consultants, act as project manager for a variety of Urban Design and Master Planning projects including large-scale multi-faceted projects, collaborating with numerous teams in multiple locations.
  • Participate in and oversee all aspects of design delivery from conceptual development through to project delivery, including developing work plans, creating and facilitating project engagement and deliverables, design ideation and development, report writing, and graphic communication.
  • Undertake internal and external verbal and written communication and correspondence in a professional manner.
  • Collaborate with other design disciplines within the Toronto office as well as other B+H offices across North American and globally.
  • Design, organize, facilitate, and participate in project engagement.
  • Participate in proposal development and assisting the proposal team with layout and production.
  • Travel to work assignments outside Toronto, which may include some international travel.
  • Communicate ideas, design solutions and deliverables through hand and computer-generated presentation drawings or computer models.
  • Participate in team mentorship and team building.

Position Requirements

  • Bachelor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Master of Urban Design or equivalent.
  • Minimum of 10-15 years of design & project management experience for a variety of urban design and planning projects.
  • Must have strong urban design skills and be experienced in local municipal policy, planning, and approval processes and requirements.
  • Strong leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills, and great report writing skills.
  • Proficient in MS Office, Full Adobe Suite, SketchUp, AutoCAD and Rhino.
  • Desirable to have good working knowledge in Revit.
  • Strong graphic (hand/computer) presentation skills.
  • Ability to perform in a multi-disciplinary team environment.

Benefit of working at B+H

People represent our most valued asset. By investing in our employees, we are also investing in the ongoing success of our company. We pride ourselves in offering a comprehensive People First benefits package to promote health and wellness, enhance work/life balance and ensure long-term stability for our employees and their families.

  • A great open concept, bright and modern office environment with amazing social spaces, quiet spaces, and private pods
  • Hybrid work arrangements – a combination of working in the friendly Toronto Studio and remotely.
  • Incredible thought leadership brainstorming ideation sessions, and regular team collaboration meetings
  • Competitive pay and Referral bonus program
  • A great employer paid Extended Health & Dental Benefit, Life, and AD&D
  • Company’s perks/discounts (i.e Goodlife, perkopolis etc.)
  • You will be exposed to an open, continuous-learning environment where professional development and career progression is encouraged.
  • You will work within a dynamic, driven, high-achieving, close-knit, and fun-loving team mixed with architects, urban designers, landscape architects, and biomimicry specialists.
  • Lots of fun studio community building and EDIB events.

Join us if you are willing to try new things, to be bold, to stretch your mind. As an Urban Designer, you have the power to improve our current environments and to create something that has never existed before to better the world we live in.

For more information on our firm, please visit https://bharchitects.com/en/

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for the job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Equity, Diversity Inclusion and Belonging have always been at the core of our values at B+H. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds. B+H is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Individual accommodation will be provided for applicants with disabilities who meet required qualifications. Please advise us at any time during the recruitment process.

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