Senior Designer (Portland Design)

Full Job Description

The Senior Designer will work closely with Client Teams to create exciting places to visit, both in placement and the vibrant, compelling uses. The Senior Designer is a Team Leader in charge of delivering reports, with close support from the master planning management.

Overall Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver the Scope as detailed in the fee proposal (and later, help write the scopes).
• Resource/ time management, plus hands-on production of work.
• Strategy development for the retail neighborhood characters (aspirational waterside dining / wellbeing park entertainment etc.) and integrating research and conceptual thinking into planning diagrams that inform external Architectural Team masterplans.
• Attending Client & Subconsultant meetings. Running, presenting, and developing the project. Briefing specialists and managing outputs.
• Documentation and presentations. In charge of the team’s production of information, organisation of the Project File and review processes.

Requirements and skills:

• Architectural / master planning background.
• Good teamwork and management skills.
• Using conceptual principles to develop strategies.
• Delivery of advanced area schedules.
• Grasshopper Script Awareness.
• An ability to create excel sheets that tabulate creative decision-making into sequences, that can be developed into automation processes.
• Confident and articulate communicator in meetings.
• Good organisational & detail-focused presentation skills.
• Decision-making autonomy and ability to work remotely.

Proficiency with the following software:

• InDesign
• Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• Photoshop
• Cad (Autocad or Rino )
• Sketch Up (if not Rino)
• Grasshopper
• Hand-drawing

Perkins&Will / Portland Design are an equal opportunity employer and supports talent from diverse backgrounds that bring experiences, viewpoints and solutions that best serve our clients, community and enrich our work environment.

Any offer of employment with Perkins&Will / Portland Design will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK.