Project Architect

About the role

If you enjoy solving complex challenges in a collaborative environment that celebrates each person's ideas, experience, and creativity, this might be the opportunity for you. Flad is a national architectural firm with ten offices across the country, specializing in science, healthcare, academic, and workplace spaces. Flad is a team of creative, intelligent, energetic people who help our clients tackle the issues that change people’s lives.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, management, and coordination of project team members and consultants from project inception through completion.
• Work with the Project Manager to lead and mentor team members and consultants while representing the firm to the client.
• Manage project consultant coordination and relationships.
• Ensure the client’s vision, goals, and objectives are understood by all team members and consultants.
• Implement design requirements through documentation and construction, maintaining design intent and integration of specific pieces of the project.
• Gain increased responsibility for the technical planning and execution of project documents, including the quality, organization, and content.
• Assist project leadership with team debriefings and communicate lessons learned.
• Deliver design-sensitive projects on schedule and within budget while making authoritative decisions and recommendations of significant impact related to the project.
• Participate in and lead client presentations.
• Participate in and conduct internal project team meetings and begin to lead technical and consultant meetings.

Requirements

• Minimum of ten years of architectural experience, with at least five years of recent Project Architect experience on relevant, large-scale projects leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience with one of Flad's market segments preferred.
• Excellent presentation, written, verbal, and graphics communication skills.
• Revit proficiency required.
• Previous experience with AutoCAD preferred.
• Professional degree in architecture required.
• Professional registration required.
• Sustainability accreditation preferred.

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays.
• Financial health and wellness benefits: retirement savings plan; fiduciary advisor; identity theft plan; Section 125 flexible benefits, including mass transit and parking; income protection – life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Continuing education and career development: internal programs; funds set aside for external programs, licensure and sustainability support, annual professional registration and organization reimbursement.