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- Experience: 5 – 9 Years
- Job Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Education: Bachelor of Architecture (Architecture)
- Nationality: Any
- Gender: Any
- Vacancy: 1 Vacancy
Job Description:
Roles & Responsibilities:
At Gensler, we design for people. We leverage our global perspective and local presence to innovate at every scale. We’re not just designers. We’re tinkerers, craftspeople, visionaries, innovators, and thought leaders. Fueled by passion and entrepreneurial spirit, our people bring new ideas to solve challenging problems. Whether you’re into sketching new ideas, hacking a building, or growing client relationships in global markets, there’s something here for everyone.
Our depth of expertise spans disciplines from aviation and transportation to education, hospitality, retail, technology, and more. At our core, we embody an entrepreneurial spirit, always looking ahead for new ways to innovate and add to our clients’ success. We share the belief that design has the power to transform organizations and change lives; whether we’re refreshing a retailer’s brand, planning a new urban district, or designing a super tall building.
Our work reflects an enduring commitment to sustainability, and we believe that a diversity of voices and cultures is one of the most powerful strategic tools for securing lasting competitive advantage.
As the world’s largest design firm, Gensler has a unique obligation and opportunity to focus on sustainability in the built environment. We deepened our commitment to combat the impact on climate change in the built environment when we launched Gensler Cities Climate Challenge (GC3) in 2019. This is our pledge to meet an ambitious goal: the elimination of all greenhouse gases from our work by 2030.
Your Role: As an Interior Designer – FF&E Specialist with Gensler, you will join a talented, thoughtful team that works to create meaningful experiences and environments grounded in a deep understanding of culture, time, and place. Each environment we create is designed in response to the bigger picture, yet tailored to suit unique brand perspectives. The result is a perfect balance between beauty and functionality. We believe spaces must be engaging and we strive to create playful environments that surprise and delight all who enter. We look to engage as artists, craftsman, inventors, designers, and entrepreneurs, endowed with endless curiosity and a mindful approach to design.
What You Will Do:
- Utilize your experience with all phases of Interior Design project deliverables from Concept Design through Construction Administration to realize a successful design concept.
- Work independently or with minor oversight to perform assignments including programming client needs, conceptual design, schematic design, design development, space planning, and construction documentation.
- Produce mood, material, and design presentations independently or with minimal supervision.
- Produce furniture plans, specifications, material selections, and schedules needed for construction documentation independently or with minimal supervision.
- Participate in client and consultant meetings.
- Effectively communicate design ideas by hand sketching and/or digital graphics.
- Utilize knowledge of hospitality furniture and technology, and custom furniture and lighting solutions, finishes, materials, color selections, and ID specifications.
- Independently create material palettes and inspiration image boards.
Your Qualifications:
- Experience in the role described above, with specific demonstrated experience in workplace/hospitality fixtures, furniture, and equipment.
- High resourcefulness of creative unique materials, furniture, and fixtures.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Interior Design or Architecture from a CIDA or NCARB accredited school.
- NCIDQ certified.
- 5+ years post-graduate experience required.
- Excellent color sense and great passion for design.
- Excellent graphic design, organizational, time management, and written and verbal communication skills.
- Passionate, self-starting, dedicated, efficient.
- Enjoys both taking responsibility and team collaboration.
- Detailed understanding of FFE design and deliverables.
- Passion for both the big picture design ideas and the details.
- Facility with 3D conceptualization (digitally or by hand) a plus.
- High Proficiency in Revit, Enscape, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Revit, and Bluebeam required.
- Demonstrated commitment to sustainability and sustainable building practices required. Portfolios should include at least 1 project with this particular focus, and candidates should be prepared to talk to this in their interview, especially built projects with LEED, Living Building Challenge, WELL Building Standard, Fitwell, and /or Net Zero Building certification.
Your Design Technology Qualifications:
- Essential
- Good working knowledge and experience in Autodesk Revit for design authoring, documentation, data extracts, and project delivery.
- Good knowledge and experience with real-time rendering processes, and material creation & management within the context of integrated BIM and parametric workflows.
- Basic understanding of the setting up of new models.
- Desirable
- Good working knowledge and experience in Rhinoceros for design authoring.
- Basic understanding and familiarity with interoperability workflows between various design tools such as AutoCad, Revit, Rhino, etc.
- Basic understanding and familiarity with the use of VR walkthroughs and panoramas.
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
To be considered, please submit a portfolio and/or work samples in PDF format.
Company Industry: Architecture, Interior Designing
Department / Functional Area: Architecture, Interior Design