Architect

Description

• May provide assistance in connection with expertise in particular building types, component, material, element, or building code.
• Participates in team meetings to help resolve project issues, coordination with other disciplines, schedule adherence, and technical issues.
• Responsible for establishing, maintaining and adherence to project budget and schedule.
• Sets up project team software parameters and manages standards.
• Fosters and maintains a collaborative professional working relationship with the Project Leadership Team
• Responsible for communication with other disciplines, vendors, and contractors to ensure incorporation of all information into project requirements and provide support as necessary.
• Incorporates Integrated Sustainable Design solutions into projects.
• May assist team in construction administration document management.
• Corrects and updates, making minor adaptations and modifications, to complete working design documents.
• Ensures that construction detail documentation conforms to QA/QC and HOK Best Practice standards.
• Leads team in planning work and developing solutions to technical and design detail problems.
• Prepares client presentations and presents design concepts and drawings.
• Communicates with client representatives to verify design requirements and specifications, progress reviews and delivery of final presentation.
• Assures HOK document standards are met and archives documents appropriately.
• Reviews completed reports, plans, estimates and calculations for coordination.
• Applies proper QA/QC methods throughout project. May lead this effort.
• Develops solutions to design problems.
• Mentors and directs the work of less experienced staff, may participate in professional development; reviews and “Lessons Learned” sessions.
• Writes reports and memos to consultants and vendors to issue changes and track resolutions.
• Responsible for technical resolution and coordination for a defined portion of a project.
• Provides support to all team members for specific market, discipline, or other area of expertise.
• Supervises preparation of technical drawings by other less senior level architects or professionals.
• Attends on-site visits, field reviews and project meetings and documents appropriately. Prepares, coordinates and reviews the schedules, submission of shop drawings and samples.
• Takes personal responsibility for fostering a green workplace through sustainable work practices.
• Coordinates with project managers, clients, public agencies, consultants and contractors to incorporate engineering systems, respond to requests for information, clarifications, and modifications, and obtain approvals, negotiations and adjusting scope of services.
• Performs product research; assists project designers with material selection and system research.
• Participates in project reviews regarding project costs, budgets and adherence to schedule.
• Assures the overall strategy for producing documents and organizing data will be followed. This includes incorporating elements in a Building Information Model (BIM) or other 3D model.
• Prepares meeting minutes for consultant coordination meetings.
• Analyzes and develops approaches to the creation and modification of architectural documents, elevations, sections, details, specifications, etc. ensuring the incorporation of design intent.
• May assist Project Manager with defining project work plans.

Requirements

• 5 plus years’ experience.
• NCARB registration preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or equivalent in education or experience required. Master’s degree preferred.
• Must have or be eligible for a reliability, or higher, security clearance with PSPC
• LEED accreditation or Green Associate preferred.
• Communicates in a clear, concise, and professional manner at all times, both verbally and in writing and will have regular interface with clients.
• Licensed Architect with current registration in your region required, if licensure is offered in your region.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance