Job Description

AECOM is seeking an Interior Designer to be based in Kansas City, MO.

Our Buildings + Places practice includes 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.

Our Kansas City studio focuses on the Sports Venues, which encompasses everything from performance and development facilities to primary competition venues, ranging anywhere from small collegiate clients to the largest of 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.

Some of our recent projects include Intuit Dome, the most technologically advanced sports arena ever designed, and Foster Pavilion, a transformative new arena that will bolster the landscape of the University of Baylor campus, and University of Central Florida football campus upgrades that will propel UCF into a new athletic conference.

Job Summary/Responsibilities
As an AECOM senior interior designer, your role will be to leverage creativity and technical expertise to design innovative, functional, and human-centered spaces for local, national, and international clients.

Responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Lead interior design efforts on all project phases including programming, conceptual design, schematic design, design development, construction documentation and construction administration with focus on sports projects.
• Collaborate with project principal, project manager, architectural and engineering disciplines, and outside consultants to achieve client’s objectives on-budget and on-schedule with diverse project team.
• Projects vary in scale and include many large scale projects.
• Experience in coordinating quality of design product throughout the project phases
• Attend on-site client meetings or construction administration activities requiring periodic local, regional, or national travel.
• Interior architectural design, programming, and space planning.
• Interior finish concepts, selections, specifications, and plans.
• Planning, selection, specification and documentation of furniture, furnishings, and lighting.
• Preparation of plans, elevations, and design presentation documentation.
• Review contractor-submitted drawings and finish samples.
• Support client relationships though effective communication and follow-up.
• Nurture existing and new client relationships
• Participate in business development activities including representing Interiors discipline on project interviews.
• Mentor and supervise junior interior design staff.
• Guide junior staff in maintaining resource library content.
• Contribute to office research, innovation and learning initiatives.
• Responsible for initiating and developing design and construction document drawings through completion for assigned projects in conformance with the requirements, applicable codes, and design criteria established by the project’s discipline leaders.
• Under direct supervision, may complete design assignments of some complexity.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture or Interior Design or related field + 4 years of relevant experience, including demonstrated success as a project designer on a range of interiors project types or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience with all phases of the project, including pre-design through construction administration.
• Experience in documenting FF+E specifications and experience establishing budget and monitor procurement process of FF+E working with major manufacturer dealers.
• Experienced in maintaining and building new client relationships.
• Working knowledge of building codes, standards and building structures.
• Experience in collegiate and/or professional sports and hospitality a plus.
• Proficiency in REVIT, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch-up or other 3D modeling software.
• Strong planning ability preferred.
• REVIT skills are highly valued.
• RA, NCIDQ or CID preferred.
• LEED Accreditation preferred.

Additional Information

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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.