Sr. Project Architect I

Description

• Meets established utilization target.
• Monitor the progress of coordination of all disciplines, including in-house and external consultants.
• Meet regularly with multiple project and firm-wide leaders to coordinate critical information on project status and potential risk.
• Schedule, manage and record phase quality reviews, engage and managing other project reviewers. May act as in-house peer reviewer within the Quality Process for other client teams.
• Guide and mentor project staff to support a culture of continuous quality improvement.
• Contribute to the capture and reuse of institutional knowledge within the firm focused on very large project implementation and share with the Technical Leadership Group.
• Meet with project team members on a regular basis to monitor work in progress and ensure that the firm’s process standards and procedures are being implemented.
• Work with the project leadership to schedule and coordinate staffing for quality reviews for all disciplines. Manage all those supporting the project’s Quality Process.
• Review and guide the development of the planning of each phase drawing document deliverable through the Cartooning process.
• Guide the team to implement the firm technical document standards and CA policies. Meet regularly with the project’s Senior Project Architect(s) and Engineering Discipline Leaders to discuss quality reviews and ongoing challenges seeking to resolve issues early.
• Participate in Business Development activity and collaborate with Project Managers, Marketing and Office Leadership as necessary.
• Engage in and contribute to the project Risk Assessment process including the phase updates. Proactively identifies, communicates, mitigates and resolves project-related issues.
• Monitor overall project metrics, including Deltek Practice Metrics and CA metrics, to identify and report potential risk issues early.
• Manage and monitor the integrated quality review processes for the project for all disciplines.
• Develop and implement with the team technical leadership a strategy for continuous proactive quality engagement.
• Guide the team through development and resolution of comprehensive and coordinated three-dimensional solutions across technical documentation and construction phases to project completion.
• Write technical articles relating to the technical quality subjects described above for internal and/or external publication.
• Monitor the alignment of the Project manual with the drawings.
• Guide and assist Project Architects in the Life Safety, Building and Energy Code analysis and compliance process for the project.
• Guide and assist the project team in the development of the Project Quality Plan and its updates to effectively manage the project's quality including phase milestone quality reviews and project pinups / technical charettes.
• Act as a proactive resource to the project team in their decision-making processes and provides support in the development of technically sound and innovative design solutions. Engage members of the Technical Leadership Group as needed.

Requirements

• Must possess strong business acumen.
• Strong coordination skills and the ability to build a rapport with the project team and client is essential.
• Demonstrated focus on quality.
• Current Architectural Registration in the United States required. The ability to obtain Architectural Registration in Arkansas strongly preferred.
• Strong technical leadership with knowledge of building codes and requirements.
• Must have experience designing, documenting, coordinating and administering the construction of significant health projects. Expertise in health codes, standards and familiarity with proven solutions to address often wildly conflicting requirements between building authorities, client needs, construction technologies and insurance provisions is essential.
• Experience leading all technical aspects with production teams on large, complex projects of more than $200M construction costs.
• Must have strong subject matter expertise.
• Must have the ability to be client facing with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Minimum 12 years of related professional experience. Experience includes 5 years in increasingly responsible roles in construction documentation on institutional and/or commercial projects and at least 3 years in a responsible role in construction administration on large institutional and/or commercial projects.
• LEED accreditation preferred.
• Must be able to lead large, complex or multiple projects.
• Minimum Bachelor degree in a relevant field required.
• Familiarity with Revit, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, and construction management software.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance