Design Engineer

Required skills to be successful:

Job-specific skills:

• Exposure to diverse design disciplines, including master planning, architecture and interior design
• Strong skills in graphics and presentations
• Some awareness of technical requirements of buildings, including understanding of engineering and statutory authorities
• Ability to prepare clear and compelling presentations to executive management
• Emphasizes process over outcome for design
• Proficiency in MS Office (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)
• Proficiency in 3D software (ex. SketchUp, Rhino, 3D Max, Grasshopper, etc.)

Behavioural Competencies:

Delighting Our Customers

• Demonstrates a passion to understand the impact of design on user experience, with a natural obsession for identifying the customer journey.
• Emphasizes human-centric product design approach, prioritizing specific sets of human needs, desires and behaviors related to how they would use or interact with a place or object.

Working Across Boundaries

• Makes it easy for other parties to respond, providing clear and concise descriptions, clear and accountable requests that enable the other party to respond quickly and with the precise feedback required.
• Employs an empathetic approach, seeking to clearly understand the priorities and motivations of the other parties in order to communicate more effectively.
• Avoids pointing faults in others, but admits mistakes in him or herself, seeking the best outcome for the team over the best outcome for the individual.

Managing Complexity

• Identifies and set priorities, with a clear process for addressing new requests according to relative urgency and importance.
• Creates or works with systems that have typical processes, templates and references for tasks that are highly complex and/or repetitive, in order to more rapidly and consistently complete the tasks with high quality.
• Anticipates areas of uncertainty and works to clarify these between parties to ensure an expedient outcome.

Influencing Others

• Applies an empathetic approach to communication, building rapport and regularly framing the issue from the other person’s perspective in order to demonstrate alignment of goals.
• Employs clear and consistent follow-up, applying regular and increasing degrees of pressure as needed, while being respectful of the parties concerned.

Taking Initiative

• Assumes an ‘extreme ownership’ mindset, taking full responsibility for the outcomes of his/her project and ensures others are held accountable for their inputs.
• Flips timeframes, asking not when is the latest an activity can be completed, but seeking out the earliest it can be achieved.
• Assumes a growth mindset, curious about new possibilities and ever seeking to learn new things and improve themselves.

Drive for Results

• Assumes an entrepreneurial mindset, considers all aspects of the project – quality, timeframe, reputational, cost, financial performance and so on.
• Insists on relentlessly high standards, with an aim to consistently deliver world-class outcomes across the range of activities and outputs of responsibilities.
• Has high ambitions for themselves, their colleagues and their projects, embedding this mindset in their work.
• Accomplishes more with less, being resourceful and inventive on ways to deliver outsized results.

Engaging Leadership

• Effectively communicates goals, objectives and considerations with clear and compelling written, verbal and graphical materials, suited to the needs of the audience and circumstances.
• Consistently models the values of the team, the business and of Al-Futtaim.

Developing Talent

Seeks to understand the team’s explicit and implicit motivations, working to support their goals in line with the business objectives.

What equips you for the role:

Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in architecture or similar
• Fluent in English, Arabic is a plus

Minimum experience:

3 to 5 years’ experience in design roles, especially focused on conceptual design studies, and preferably having worked with highly reputable consultants or developers