Architectural Designer (Junior)

Location: Columbus, Ohio

We are an award-winning design firm, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration. Our purpose-driven approach creates healthy places, strong communities, and a resilient environment. That’s where you come in.

With leading clients, diverse colleagues, and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary and help create lasting change. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here, and explore recent projects and ideas at NBBJ.com. Join us to make an impact today!

The role at a glance:

NBBJ Columbus is seeking a junior Architectural Designer to join our team. We are looking for an architectural designer with good conceptual, visual, and communication skills to work in a highly collaborative and design-oriented studio.

At NBBJ, a junior designer is responsible for supporting design efforts on projects, learning and applying design quality standards, contributing to a collaborative design environment, and developing their design skills through active project involvement and mentorship.

In your new role, you will:

• Set Expectations: Participate in defining quality expectations via design reviews and discussions.
• Inspire: Bring fresh ideas, encouraging innovation and creativity in design efforts.
• Create: Assist in design tasks across projects, gaining experience from concept to construction.
• Review/Critique: Participate in reviews to understand and support high-design quality.
• Present/Communicate: Help prepare and present designs, learning to tell compelling design stories.
• Network Internally: Engage with peers, participate in reviews, and collaborate within the firm.
• Network Externally: Attend events to enhance brand awareness and learn client engagement.
• Methodologies: Learn and apply the latest design tools and methods to projects.
• Process: Support proper design processes, collaborating with PMs and PAs.
• Expertise: Develop design skills across practices, focusing on a specific typology.
• Integrated Design Delivery: Learn project delivery, collaborating with disciplines for integrated design.

What you will need to succeed:

• 2 - 5 years of experience
• Bachelor's Degree: B Arch or M Arch desired
• Deep understanding of high-performance building concepts, with LEED Accreditation or within 18 months of hire
• Strong conceptual design and schematic design skills
• Strong verbal and graphic communication skills and ability to work within diverse teams of designers
• Proficiency in Revit with 3D modeling skills; Sketchup, and/or Rhino desired
• Working knowledge of Adobe Suite; Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
• Interest and experience in Grasshopper workflows are beneficial
• Ability to participate in multiple projects and manage deadlines
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative, open environment
• Ability to travel, if the project requires

NBBJ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F Disabled and Vet EEO/AA Employer.