Organization:
MKSK
Location:
Covington, KY
Organization Overview:
MKSK is a leading urban design, landscape architecture, and planning firm with offices in Columbus, Ohio; Covington and Lexington, Kentucky; Indianapolis and West Lafayette, Indiana; and Detroit, Michigan. Our 80+ person team of professionals is dedicated to the craft of building enduring, vibrant, and sustainable neighborhoods, downtowns, and public spaces.
MKSK focuses on the planning and design of downtown, waterfront, neighborhood, cultural, and campus environments. Our relationships with cities, institutions, and private sector clients span generations. We are passionate about our work and the legacy of our practice!
MKSK is looking to add a talented and passionate team member to our Covington-based Urban Design studio. MKSK offers competitive salary and benefits and we emphasize workplace flexibility. We understand the need to balance work and life and offer flex hours to accommodate family responsibilities and other community-oriented interests. We are open to creative work plans for the right candidate. If this position is of interest to you, apply by submitting a resume and portfolio to hiring@mkskstudios.com. Please include MKSK Urban Design as part of the subject line.
Job Description:
We are seeking a talented, articulate professional urban designer with 5-10 years of experience to manage urban design projects at a variety of scales, develop the skills and capabilities of junior team members, and actively promote the culture and vitality of great urban places.
Responsibilities:
- Manage project schedules, budgets, work flow, communication, and client deliverables
- Manage team and consultant schedules, project load, and staff utilization
- Collaborate and provide project strategy and direction with teammates and project leadership
- Provide quality control
- Mentor, educate, and inspire junior staff and creatively solve problems
- Attend project meetings, organize outcomes, and succinctly disseminate project direction to team members
- Contribute to the curiosity, culture, and energy of the office
- Participate in continuing education and advocacy both inside and outside the office
- Lead the creation and management of office standards, templates, and resources
Skills Required:
- Strong project management capabilities (schedules, deadlines, budgets, organization, etc)
- Personality that proactively engages clients (current and prospective) and collaborators
- Ability to shift gears quickly and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to take conceptual direction in meetings and remotely and translate into actionable team tasks and deliverables
- Analyze and document urban conditions through photography, measuring, research, mapping and data analysis
- Hand drawing and diagramming capabilities
- Computer programs: Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Microsoft and Google programs, GIS, and Ajera (or similar)
- Graphic design
- Knowledge of building, parking, streets, transportation (transit, bike, etc), and public space types (proficiency at common dimensions, programmatic requirements, proportion, scale, and adjacencies)
- Be able to analyze and quantify proposed development
- Produce world-class visualizations of design concepts including but not limited to: analysis and explanatory diagrams, illustrative plans, street sections, 3D models, infographics, and conceptual public space and building architecture
- Ability to efficiently explain and document design in slide shows, documents, exhibits, and on the web
- Ability to communicate clearly verbally, in writing, and through drawing
- Ability to design and lead public and stakeholder engagement in projects
Education & Experience:
Bachelors and/or Master’s degree in architecture and/or urban design plus 5-10 years’ minimum experience. Planning and landscape architecture degrees are acceptable with a minimum five years of experience in urban design.