Design Associate - Architecture

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About the role

In this entry-level design professional role, you will produce innovative, appropriate, and cost-effective designs, drawings, and specifications for assigned projects. You will coordinate work with other disciplines, fulfill experience requirements for professional license eligibility, and emerge as an independent resource.

Responsibilities

• Conceptual Design
  • Establish discipline basis of design for Design Manager review.
• Detailed Design & Analysis
  • Perform dimensional, interference, and basic design checks on layouts and sketches from Licensed Professionals, including interdisciplinary drawing sets as requested.
  • Perform assigned analysis or calculations.
  • Incorporate safety into drawings and ensure design compliance with Owner criteria.
• Detailing
  • Apply discipline design and detailing fundamentals under the supervision of and subject to final approval by the Lead Professional.
  • Assist Lead Professional with plotting, production, and assembly of drawing packages and writing specifications.
  • Conduct code compliance reviews with a design professional.
  • Maintain AE checklists for Design Manager review.
  • Participate in coordination review sessions.
  • Maintain orderly work files and prepare clear, well-written memos and correspondence.
  • Prepare presentation materials when assigned.
  • Coordinate and check work to minimize deficiencies, errors, and omissions using Haskell standards and procedures.
• Construction Documents
  • Produce well-organized, finished design documents of good appearance, accuracy, clarity, and correctness from layouts, sketches, or written instructions.
• Construction Support
  • Check shop drawings and submittal data for conformance with contract documents, subject to final approval by the Lead Professional.
  • Assist Lead Professional in field inspections, development of solutions to field problems, preparation of field orders, addenda, and record drawings.
  • Return shop drawings on schedule.
  • Respond to field/construction questions as directed by discipline leader.
  • Create inspection reports and punch lists.
• Planning, Scheduling, and Profitability
  • Create work plans for assigned tasks.
  • Monitor and project personal workload status, advising supervisor of scheduling difficulties.
  • Meet scheduled key dates and discuss progress regularly with Licensed Professional of Record.
  • Advise Design Manager of changes and design to budgeted man-hours.
• Project Management
  • Adhere to project strategy.
  • Document meetings and telephone conversations to communicate to discipline leader.
  • Travel as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering preferred; degree from accredited curriculum (NCARB or ABET) preferred.
• 3–5 years of experience required.

Skills

• Intermediate skill with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Proficient in Revit.
• Experience putting together construction document sets.
• Eagerness to obtain professional licensure.

Physical Requirements

• Ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations.
• Ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10–50 pounds.
• Good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment, and read application/form information.
• Frequently required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.