Architecture - Project Architect

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Advocates for and upholds the design intent of stations, transit facilities, and urban infrastructure, ensuring seamless translation into coordinated, high-quality construction documentation.
• Technical Content: Responsible for ensuring the overall design intent of the project established by the Project Designer is incorporated into the detailed documentation.
• Design Process: Monitors the design process from conceptual phase through construction administration, ensuring the design idea is consistent and properly executed.
• Technical Resolution: Works with Specification Writer to develop specifications and is responsible for coordination of drawings and specifications.
• Document Accuracy: Checks completed reports, plans, estimates and calculations for accuracy.
• Project Strategy: Sets the overall strategy for producing the documents and identifies the sheets planned for each stage of the work.
• Team Management: Sets up project team software parameters and manages standards.
• Professional Relationships: Fosters and maintains a collaborative professional working relationship with the Project Leadership Team.
• Communication: Responsible for communication with other disciplines, vendors, and contractors to ensure incorporation of all information into project requirements and provides support as necessary.
• Quality Assurance: Ensures that construction detail documentation conforms to quality assurance, quality control and best practice standards.
• Supervision: Supervises preparation of technical drawings by other less senior level architects or technicians.
• Leadership Role: Responsible for taking personal responsibility for fostering a green workplace through sustainable work practices.
• Client Service: Mentors and directs the work of less experienced staff, participates in professional development reviews and “Lessons Learned” sessions.
• Client Interface: Regularly communicates with client representative to verify design requirements and specifications, progress reviews and delivery of final presentation.
• Teamwork: Receives project direction from the Principal in Charge and Technical direction from the RBU Technical Principal.
• Documentation: Assists in planning and conducting work making minor adaptations and modifications to complete working drawing set(s).
• Coordination: Attends on-site visits, field reviews and project meetings.
• Support: Prepares and coordinates the review of contractor’s schedules, submission of shop drawings and samples.
• Research: Involved with specification set-up and drawing coordination, research and appropriate use of HOK Standards.
• Integration: Provides support to all team members for specific market, discipline, or other areas of expertise.
• Resolution: Participates in team meetings to help resolve project issues, coordination with other disciplines, schedule adherence, technical issues.
• Cost Review: Prepares meeting minutes of consultant coordination meetings.
• Presentations: May prepare 2D and 3D presentation/design drawings and builds models for client/project team review.
• Sustainability: Incorporates Integrated Sustainable Design solutions into projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or equivalent in education or experience required.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• 10 plus years’ design experience.
• Licensed Architect with current registration in your region required, if licensure is offered in your region.
• NCARB registration preferred.
• LEED accreditation or Green Associate preferred.
• Prior experience in large-scale transportation or infrastructure projects preferred.