Design Graduate - Sydney

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• Great career and development opportunities!
• Join an inclusive and collaborative culture
• We offer competitive remuneration and benefits

About Stockland:

Stockland is Australia’s largest community creator. We own, manage and develop a diverse $17 billion portfolio that encompasses retail town centres, logistics centres and business parks, office assets, residential communities and retirement living villages.

Our vision is to be a great Australian real estate company that makes a valuable contribution to our communities and country. This is brought to life by our 1400 employees who are guided by our values, which are of community, accountability, respect and excellence and are passionately committed to delivering our purpose – ‘we believe there is a better way to live’.

The opportunity:

The Graduate Architect is an important part of the Stockland Design Studio. This is a small team which includes architects, designers, landscapers and other specialist advisors. The team covers all asset classes and their projects can range from delivering the design for 150 boutique apartments to 6000+ dwellings.

The purpose of the design team is to ensure that a project is delivered to the high expectations of Stockland as a whole, not only in the design but also in the social and financial sustainability of the project.

Responsibilities in this role are varied. The incumbent graduate was responsible for areas including:

• Supporting the architectural design on key projects across residential, retirement living and mixed-use scheme.
• Working with colleagues in the acquisition and marketing teams to support the tender process for potential development opportunities.
• Completing acquisition stage analysis, scheme preparation and modelling.
• Working with the team to create standard specifications, templates and checklists to support future prefabrication.
• Taking the lead in organising and running design forum meetings. These are engagement roadshows to update senior members of the Stockland business on the design process for current live projects.

This position is based in Sydney with the potential for infrequent travel.  

Stockland’s graduate programme:

As a top graduate employer our program offers you a full time permanent role that takes you on a 2-year journey to develop your capability and participate in focused development days. You will also benefit from coaching as well as the support of a dedicated sponsor to help you make the most of the program. Highlights of the program include innovation workshops, getting together with graduates from around the country and the chance to bring fresh ideas to Stockland. 

Stockland’s proposition to you:

At Stockland, our employees are their own community delivering outcomes that benefit the community at large. We work in a highly collaborative environment that provides flexibility, opportunities and respects differences. Our portfolio is diverse and so are the opportunities for professional and career development. We are committed to providing our people with broad experiences to build a successful career.

Stockland has a strong commitment to achieving the best outcomes through an inclusive and collaborative culture. Our customers come from a range of backgrounds and we want our teams to reflect this.

We offer competitive remuneration and benefits. Your benefits are chosen by you for you. Benefits include free to access or subsided lifestyle, health, well-being and financial services products.

Requirements:

For this position you must have completed a Master of Architecture degree within the last 24 months and have achieved a grade point average of 60% or above.

At Stockland we seek graduates with excellent interpersonal skills, a strong work ethic and a solution motivated approach. You will have the ability to communicate effectively and are able to demonstrate where you have previously worked in a high-performing and collaborative team environments. Familiarity with one or more relevant software such as Revit, Rhino, Autocad or similar and the Adobe suite (InDesign, photoshop and illustrator) is advantageous.  

We anticipate this programme starting in Spring 2018. You must have completed all university study by this date. Our wider graduate recruitent campaign for Feburary 2019 campaign will open for applications in late July. 

Due to the permanent nature of this role we can only accept applications who are a citizen of or hold permanent residency in Australia or New Zealand.

Next steps:

Please click to apply through our careers website. You will be asked to complete a short application form and upload a copy of your CV plus academic transcript.

A member of the Stockland careers team will aim to review all applications and provide an update within 15 working days after the closing date.

If you do not meet the GPA requirement for the programme and have mitigating circumstances, please contact the careers team on [email protected] to discuss your candidacy further.