Interior Architect Full Time

Purpose:

The Interior Architect role shall lead, as well as actively design where necessary, our project team of design thinkers and doers who specialise in helping to tell stories and create experiences in the context of aviation, commercial and hospitality, creatively re-imagining existing buildings & interior spaces, taking a human-centred approach to help them become environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. They must possess a thorough knowledge of interior design practice with emphasis on aviation design, experience design & planning, building materials, construction methods, integration of engineering disciplines and building codes.

Responsibilities:

Demonstrate an understanding of the key drivers of hospitality & commercial interior design & planning, including the interactions between aviation and airport operations, development of design concepts, retail & commercial planning

• Can speak in hospitality terminology about occupancy, IT and the overall technology required.
• Understands operational needs of housekeeping, service, sales and catering, meetings and conference rooms, food and beverage, spa and fitness, seating & circulation spaces
• Can communicate and analyze problems with wider stakeholder & business unit team by using this knowledge by offering sound ideas and reasoning based upon the industry needs.
• Follow trades and reads articles about what is being tried in other markets and the success and failures to educate self so that ideas can be applied to own work and ideas.
• Openly shares ideas and knowledge with team to enhance the project.
• Responsible to make, and enable, well informed design decisions on products and experience solutions that will positively impact the customer experience and ensure those decisions are executed in a scalable and extensible manner to enable the experience design process.
• Support of DA Business Units in development & definition of project design to support an overall business brief
• Support in the selection of various subcontractors and outsourced service providers to ensure that Dubai Airports benefits from the engagement of a competitive, quality assured and performance driven supply chain focussed on a mutually supportive long term relationship.
• Collaborate with third parties to ensure that projects undertaken by service providers within the Architectural & Experience Design workstream are conducted in line with the agreed Project Management Plan.

Professional Qualifications/Regulatory/Certification Requirements:

• University degree qualified / Chartered Interior Architect / Interior Designer with minimum 5 years professional experience.
• Commercial & Hospitality design experience preferred.