Director of Architecture - Philadelphia

Description

• Actively participate with professional and community-focused organizations to grow relationships and introduce/educate potential clients towards the Architecture/Building Engineering Practice at Michael Baker International.
• Balance technical alignment with staff, projects, and clients. Coordinate throughout IDA leveraging the strength and diverse array of talents throughout our organization to effectively meet our client’s needs.
• This local leadership position provides oversight and direction for all our local IDA resources, as well as evolving market sectors; and encompasses establishing and implementing goals and objectives, developing and promoting IDA’s values and strategic plans, and positioning for growth.
• Champion staff development through coaching and mentoring.
• Foster a positive and inclusive office culture.
• Driving proposal development and marketing efforts
• Promoting and monitoring technical excellence, creative design, and project performance across Architecture projects
• Encourage uniformly high design and production standards and monitors projects to ensure that quality and production standards are met for all design and contract documents.
• Foster a continuous learning culture by encouraging communication and the sharing of ideas and technical knowledge through mentoring, in-house presentations, case studies, and continuing education opportunities.
• Regularly attend local industry and client events representing the comprehensive capabilities of IDA to promote brand awareness.
• Collaborate office space needs with Infrastructure Office Executives.
• Facilitate inter-office/inter-disciplinary collaboration, communication, and cooperation.
• Provide administrative support to senior leadership as needed.
• Leading project planning, quality management, and risk assessment
• Ensure consistent use and application of operations management tools and facilitate weekly coordination meetings to facilitate effective resource planning, quality management, and project execution.
• Serve as the main point of contact for IDA within the CT and MA offices.
• Build rapport and establish positive relationships with existing and prospective clients to ensure client-focused performance.
• Organize IDA meetings, events, and team-building activities monthly.
• Coordinating staffing assignments, workshare and team utilization across the Market and with other Directors nationally
• Ensuring scope, schedule, and budget alignment
• Establish and promote collective leadership presence within the Philadelphia, PA office, reporting “in-person” to the physical office approximately three (3) days per week.
• Constructively critique individual and team efforts, towards continuous improvement.
• Work with Operations Managers to ensure staff maintain certifications and current licensing and training requirements to meet government regulatory requirements.
• Actively identify and recruit industry talent for strategic growth.

Requirements

• Experience with local Pennsylvania and New Jersey transit and aviation (transportation) clients.
• Proficient experience and understanding of interdisciplinary relationships between technical resources, clients, and stakeholders.
• Thorough knowledge of the business of Architecture with demonstrated experience leading, directing, and managing people.
• Strong leadership with a minimum of 10 years of experience in the design, documentation, and management of multi-disciplinary architecture/building engineering projects and staff resources beyond initial licensure.
• Understanding and experience with technical specifications software, including SpecsIntact, MasterSpec, etc., as well as Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) and building codes.
• Travel within the greater eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersy (20%+/-) is anticipated based on program/project responsibilities. Travel beyond is likely but not frequent.
• Strong business leadership and financial acumen.
• It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
• Specific experience with Design/Build and other alternate project delivery methods is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills exhibited through the ability to articulate ideas, both verbally and in writing; personable and outgoing in work relationships, both externally and internally; highly precise, detailed, and self-organized; frank and candid during all business relationships.
• LEED Accredited Professional BD+C is highly preferred.
• BS/BA Architecture; Bachelor of Architecture; or MS/MA Architecture. with active licensure as a Registered Architect (RA) in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. NCARB Certification is required, given potential projects geography.
• Bold leadership through performance management, accountability, flexibility around unexpected issues/challenges, conflict management, and empathy.
• In-depth knowledge/proficiency with Building Information Modeling (BIM) [Autodesk Revit Architecture], technical specifications software, as well as applicable building codes, and application project implementation.
• Business development experience is highly preferred, including research and developing responses to Requests for Proposals (RFP), as well as an oversight of written and graphic marketing materials.
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) membership is highly preferred, with active participation with the organization highly preferred.
• Excellent computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Adobe, and Bluebeam.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance