Construction Designer
Role Overview
Support early-stage planning, feasibility, conceptual design, and design development for facilities across SLB’s global portfolio.
Facilities include industrial workshops, manufacturing centers, laboratories, offices and headquarters, operational bases, and other specialized facilities.
Work with internal users, engineering teams, project managers, and external design consultants to develop practical, safe, efficient, fit-for-purpose facility designs.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Support early-stage planning, feasibility, conceptual design, and design development for facilities across SLB’s global portfolio.
Facilities include industrial workshops, manufacturing centers, laboratories, offices and headquarters, operational bases, and other specialized facilities.
Work with internal users, engineering teams, project managers, and external design consultants to develop practical, safe, efficient, fit-for-purpose facility designs.
Key responsibilities
- Develop feasibility studies, space plans, conceptual designs, layouts, and early-stage architectural solutions for new facilities, expansions, renovations, and consolidations.
- Lead or participate in user-requirement workshops and design reviews; translate operational, functional, technical, and spatial requirements into design solutions.
- Interpret and apply company design standards, specifications, blueprints, performance criteria, and technical requirements; review multidisciplinary drawings and provide design comments.
- Coordinate design with external consultants and civil, structural, MEP, IT/networking, security, HSE, fire/life-safety, and operational requirements.
- Evaluate functionality, constructability, maintainability, efficiency, safety, and compliance with applicable standards and codes.
- Prepare drawings, 3D models, renderings, and presentations; support design development and later project stages as needed.
Qualifications and skills
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Building Engineering, or a related architecture, design, or engineering discipline.
- At least five years of relevant professional experience; experience with complex industrial, manufacturing, laboratory, infrastructure, or commercial facilities is preferred.
- Strong proficiency in Revit and AutoCAD; experience with Rhino and/or other 3D modeling, visualization, and rendering software.
- Strong understanding of architectural design, space planning, construction documentation, materials, building systems, and multidisciplinary design coordination.
- Able to translate complex operational requirements into practical facility designs and work independently with multidisciplinary, multicultural teams.
- Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills.
- Based in Dubai and willing to travel regionally and internationally as project needs require.
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