Project Architect

Your Opportunity

Join a Top 10 global design firm in our multi-sector Buildings practice that provides Architecture, Buildings Engineering, and Interior Design services with a long history and deep commitment to the Commercial, Industrial, Healthcare, and Science & Technology sectors. We are seeking a Project Architect / Architectural Designer to join our buildings practice.

As a senior contributor on our professional Architecture team, you will work independently to assist clients through the planning and creation of fiscally responsible, cutting-edge designs. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with construction plans, specifications, estimates and building codes. You will be innovating and creating new prototypes designed with sustainable products with green architecture sensibility as your goals. You will lead the development of integrated design proposals, continuous updating of a building information model, preparing a variety of output / drawings throughout the project, while leading and mentoring others and collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables as required under instruction from the Project Leader.

Licensure is preferable but not required.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for large projects of high complexity.
• Engage in the development of a design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats.
• Utilize BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of buildings and their components.
• Participate in design critiques and pin-ups.
• Interpret and apply building codes and requirements of other regulatory agencies.
• Prepare and revise documentation in various architectural phases including site plans, floor plans, building elevations, building sections, details.
• Participate in bidding and negotiation phase and prepares addenda.
• Review shop drawings and submittals, responds to RFIs, prepares site observation reports, and other contract administration tasks.
• Lead project coordination and meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors.
• Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and basic cost estimating.
• Assist in the preparation of the project specifications.
• Coordination of specs with construction documents.
• Participate in constructability review.
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects.

Your Capabilities and Credentials