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Job Description
AECOM is seeking a talented Senior Design Principal for immediate employment in our New York, NY office. This client-facing leadership role will lead a team of architects and designers to deliver interdisciplinary world-class projects for our clients in the sports and entertainment market. The leader will actively drive projects toward successful outcomes, while supporting and fostering a design-focused culture of self-supporting creative teams.
AECOM’s Americas Sports Practice is an established leader in the market continuing to provide world-class projects for decades. This showcase practice focuses its work across a range of facilities, from performance and development facilities to primary competition venues, ranging anywhere from small collegiate clients to the largest professional leagues and franchises. We look to combine beauty, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and innovation in our projects and believe these values can be instilled in any project regardless of size or budget.
Our Buildings + Places Business Line embodies the spirit of a nimble, fully integrated design firm within a fully global infrastructure organization. Our culture is dynamic, offering autonomy and the feel of a smaller, collaborative studio backed by the resources of a large interdisciplinary firm. Services include architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, urbanism, and planning (inclusive of landscape design), strategy +, economics, technology solutions, asset advisory, and cost and program management. This diverse team assists our clients from strategy through project realization, creating positive outcomes for those who occupy and use the buildings and environments we help to create.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a client-facing leader and Principal in Charge for Sports Practice projects.
- Mobilizes the design team to craft, evolve, and deliver design solutions.
- Performs various management, leadership, and people accountability responsibilities for a specific technical group or department.
- Has full responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating technical assignments.
- Generally requires multi-disciplinary knowledge of architecture.
- Maintains liaison with units within the organization and individuals inside and outside of the organization.
- Responsible for acting independently on design matters pertaining to the venue construction.
- Work at this level usually requires extensive progressive experience.
- Works under minimal supervision. Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
- Manages group of architects and/or designers, coordinating activities of the unit.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's in Architecture or related field +8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
Preferred Qualifications:
- Licensed/Registered Architect
- 10+ years of project experience in an architectural firm.
- Experience in client management/ client leadership
- Project focus on fan experience
- Proficiency in Revit, Bluebeam, Sketchup, Adobe Creative Suite
- Collegiate and professional sports and recreation design experience
- Working knowledge of building codes, standards, building construction, and building structures pertinent to transit projects
- Affinity with developing details and experience in construction documents
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About AECOM
AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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