Project Architect II - Lifestyle

Job Summary

You will lead key technical design components of complex architectural projects while ensuring alignment with client goals, codes, and sustainability standards. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate design intent into coordinated, high-quality documentation.

Performance Objectives

• Produce accurate, code-compliant project deliverables.
• Develop architectural models, contract documents, and specifications for small-to-moderate complexity projects, integrating codes, sustainability principles, and material standards, while consistently upholding Performance-Based Design intent throughout project documentation.
• Lead coordination between specifications and drawings.
• Manage due diligence and cross-team coordination with autonomy.
• Document existing conditions, prepare plan review submissions, and organize and transfer project files, while coordinating technical designs with internal teams, consultants, and engineers and contributing informed input to project fee and scheduling discussions.
• Lead reviews and resolve compliance issues to protect quality and schedule.
• Lead reviews of submittals, drawings, estimates, and calculations for accuracy and compliance; resolve construction-phase issues during site visits and code-related issues with authorities having jurisdiction (AHJ), and perform thorough self-checks so every deliverable meets QA/QC standards.
• Mentor junior staff and strengthen team practices.

People Matter

• We value diversity and inclusion, providing training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.
• We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, believing they are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design, making spaces welcoming and accessible to all.
• We embrace human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices, focusing on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.

Company Culture

• We are employee-owned, acting like owners with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• We are continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation® with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
• We are dedicated to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more.
• We are committed to giving back to our communities, offering paid service-learning hours to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.