Facade Designer

Facade Designer

Arup City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

We have an opportunity for a talented Project Facade Specialist with key focus in facade design, specification and assessment to join our team in Cape Town. Work will cover all façade types – glazing, curtain wall, cladding – using a variety of systems and materials on a wide range of building typologies.

The successful candidate will become a permanent member of our creative, friendly, international team and will work on some of the most exciting buildings in the world, including international airports, high‑rise commercial and residential towers, prominent city buildings and international stadia.

Key responsibilities

• You will develop excellent facade solutions in collaboration with other facade specialists and see these through from concept through tender documents, mock‑ups, testing to fabrication and installation.
• You will develop facade designs, prepare details, study materials and systems and contribute to specifications. In later stages of the project, you will be part of a team reviewing the contractor's design submissions and undertake inspections of fabrication and installation. The role will also include the inspection and investigation of existing buildings.
• You will be part of the wider facade team developing facade design solutions in collaboration with other facade specialists on your projects from concept to implementation, including review and comment on detailed designs generated by specialist façade contractors.
• You will work in a team and will engage directly with our clients, architects, contractors and supply chain.
• You will have several projects running in parallel at various stages in the project life.
• You will produce drawings, reports, specifications and correspondence and help our project managers to manage time and budget.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented designer, architect, building physics or sustainability specialist developing design, technical, and software skills who enjoys working collaboratively in multi‑discipline design teams, taking projects from inception to completion to achieve outstanding results.

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Contact

Not ready to apply just yet, or have a few questions? Contact Marek Mazurowski ( ). Please note, to ensure we remain GDPR compliant do not send your CV directly to us via this email.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together. We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Profit share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

An environment that will give you freedom to design with a purpose, focus on your skills to deliver quality work to our clients, opportunity to learn and share knowledge openly. You will have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup’s community engagement programme.

You'll have access to lots of learning opportunities and ongoing training through Arup University and other learning programmes.

Beyond a competitive guaranteed annual salary package, core benefits include medical aid, hospital gap cover, provident fund, life insurance and income protection in the event of disability. Core benefits form part of your guaranteed annual package.

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Design

Industries

Design Services and Engineering Services

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