Project Architect II - Education
About the Role
As a Project Architect II, you will own the technical design of major, complex projects and ensure the design intent survives from concept through documentation and into the field. You will investigate options, weigh trade-offs, and recommend solutions that work for the client, often developing new approaches for non-standard details. This is a supported but largely independent role where you will coordinate directly with consultants and engineers, resolve code questions with building officials, and mentor junior architects.
The next step from this role is Senior Project Architect and project leadership. Progressive is employee-owned (ESOP), so the projects you deliver build your own stake in the firm. We practice Performance Based Design, meaning designs must prove their value against the client’s needs.
Responsibilities
- Hold the design intent through every phase of documentation, ensuring Performance Based Design goals are met without unresolved deviations reaching the client.
- Lead the technical design and documentation on assigned major projects, producing architectural models, contract documents, and specifications in Revit and AutoCAD with built-in codes, sustainability requirements, and material standards.
- Stamp and seal construction documents as a licensed architect, owning technical accuracy and code compliance while making initial calls on complex or first-of-their-kind design problems.
- Own coordination of specifications with drawings, leading spec-to-drawing coordination and handoffs with internal teams, consultants, and engineers to catch conflicts in the office rather than at bid or in the field.
- Carry plan review and code questions to resolution, handling due diligence, existing conditions documentation, and plan review submissions, and settling code questions directly with the authority having jurisdiction.
- Lead reviews of submittals, drawings, estimates, and calculations, evaluating them against project scope and firm standards, and self-checking your own work to meet QA/QC requirements before deliverables go out.
- Solve construction problems in the field during site visits, addressing unforeseen conditions, code compliance issues, and document discrepancies to close open items.
- Keep project information, fees, and schedules moving by organizing how project files are published, issued, and transferred, providing informed input on fees and schedules, and raising scope changes proactively.
- Mentor junior architects through day-to-day coaching, Lessons Learned sessions, and contributions to process improvements and standard development.
Qualifications
- Licensed architect (stamping and sealing capability required).
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
- Comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program.
- Hybrid work schedule and summer hours.
- Profit-sharing.
- Paid service-learning hours for community involvement and corporate sponsorship for community organizations.
- Continuing education, mentorship, and growth opportunities.
- Firm ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®.
About the Firm
Progressive Companies is an employee-owned firm of nearly 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices. We specialize in Performance Based Design, ensuring our work delivers strategic outcomes and meets today’s needs while preparing for the future. Our projects span the nation, offering team members the opportunity to work on a variety of exciting and impactful projects.
We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices, embracing the AIA 2030 Commitment and a range of high-performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies to maximize positive impact. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core to our culture, fostering trust, respect, and innovative design.