Senior Site ID Architect

Overview

Manage interior design site supervision team, ensure compliance, coordinate stakeholders, oversee QA/QC.

Key Responsibilities

• design coordination
• document control
• site supervision
• change management
• quality control
• client reporting

Tasks

The Senior Interior Design Architect is responsible for managing the DSA Site Supervision team, for the interior design scope, ensuring compliance with construction & Employer contracts and quality standards while managing the pre-engineering and associated synchronization process and effectively coordinate with various stakeholders and facilitate successful project delivery. -Full preparation is required in advance and prior to attendance at meetings to ensure that responses and status reports can be given against the various actions and design issues which the consultant team is responsible for. -Establish / Obtain at the project outset -Request and approve the contractor’s documentation in advance of the works starting -Establish procedures and issue forms to be used. -Receive the Contractors queries, contact and coordinate with the appropriate design consultant and prepare and issue responses in a timely manner. Response time to be in compliance with project specifics. -Change Management: Supporting RFC Administrator and Project Architect for the expediting of all technical and commercial responses required for each change management item. -Managing and supervising the DSA Interior Design Site Supervision team, which may include Assistant ID Architects, ID Inspectors, document controllers, and other admin staff. -Where verbal instructions are given, then a “Confirmation of Verbal Instruction” should ideally be given to the contractor by a Consultant Site instruction or are to be requested from the Contractors in a timely manner, ensuring the correct date for issue of the instruction is recorded. -Maintaining a full set of ID Design drawings, schedules, specifications etc. -Request and approve Contractor’s. -Review of Contractors progress reports, Review and respond with comments. -Project Close out, working closely with the Client, PM and Contractor -Issue NCN’s to the contractor as required, using photographic evidence. -Correspondence: Prepare and issue letters and other notices, responses etc to the Client, Project Manager, sub-consultants, Contractors and the like. All critical and sensitive issues are only to be issued after consultation with the Project Architect. Record poor performance and improvement notices on sub consultants, after consultation and coordination with Project Architect. Respond to PM, Client on any raised issues. Formal correspondence is to be per the lines of communication agreed with the Client / Project Manager. -Review of Contractors payment applications -Contractors’ programs: Review and respond with comments. -Maintaining a set of Client Instructions. Contractors verbal instructions. RFI’s and their responses. Submittals and their responses (pre-engineering). -Coordinating all Designer Architects, and sub-consultants interior design site supervision team’s tasks and duties in accordance with the Construction & Employer contract requirements and DSA work QA & QC work procedures. -HR Duties / Supervision of Assistant ID Site Architects, ID Inspectors and other staff -Maintain and distribute a tracking schedule / log. -Value engineering: Review and respond with comments, taking a proactive attitude to savings without compromising the project quality, lifespan or design intent. -Quality Control / Inspections of Contractors’ work in progress -Maintain tracking and record logs, working closely with document controllers [as appropriate], and issuing weekly. -Monitor and close out NCN’s as required. -Utilizing of computer software for the document and drawing control, If available and per the contract’s requirements eg Primavera Expedition. -Maintain a Daily diary, which should include: Weather. Inspections and testing carried out [on and off site]. NCN’s & Site Observations raised. Contractors’ resources. Key events, meetings, client visits. New activities started. -Design coordination and implementation -As built drawings. -Overseeing the implementation at the site or project office of general office tasks, housekeeping and document control, ensuring that the ID site team comply with all the agreed procedures [the list below is not definitive but is the basic requirements] -Preparation of reports for Taking over certificates. -In acting out the duties herein the employee is to follow and implement all relevant company and project work procedures. -testing and commissioning, NCR closure, snagging/de-snag program activities. -Meetings: QA/QC & Technical meetings, Contractors Progress meeting – usually chaired by the Engineer or PM, where attendance is a must, Deliverables meetings, Miscellaneous workshops, Contract Close out progress meetings, Minutes of meetings, which are chaired by DSA

Requirements

• autocad
• revit
• aconex
• bluebeam
• fidic
• 10-15 years

What You Bring

-Written site instructions given post contract are to be properly referenced and documented. -Middle East hospitality experience is preferred. -Verbal instructions can be given [but this should not be the norm]. -Local Authority Approvals -Engineering / Architectural or Interior diploma or an equivalent degree / certification. -Non-Conformance Notices [NCN] -Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team is a must. -10-15 years of site experience. -Proficient with FIDIC Contract Implementation. -Construction Contract requirements and compliance (Obtain copy and familiarize yourself with the requirements of the contract for all ID site supervision duties) -Aconex, Bluebeam, Acrobat, AutoCAD, Office, Snagging (Field, SNAGR, 4P, other). Revit would be advantageous. -Instructions which vary the works are not to be given on shop drawings, or RFI’s or submittals unless a Site Instruction is issued in parallel. -Work Instructions are to be issued via the PM or the Fidic Engineer.

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About Dsa Architects International

-Evolved from RSL Architects into a global practice with offices across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, earning a reputation for delivering complex architectural designs. -Notable projects include luxury hotels and resorts like the DoubleTree by Hilton Jeddah and Jumeirah Gulf of Bahrain Resort, for which it received multiple Luxury Lifestyle Awards. -Champions digital innovation, leveraging BIM and 3D modeling to enhance collaboration, reduce waste, and improve project delivery. -Each project is crafted to reflect local culture and history while harnessing international design standards, ensuring each building feels both rooted and visionary. -A design-driven yet delivery-focused culture allows them to manage projects end-to-end—from concept and master planning to site supervision and documentation. -Their ability to navigate diverse regulatory environments and execute across continents makes them a trusted partner for clients from major hotel operators to private investors.

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