Senior Project Architect

About the role

IA Interior Architects translates client goals, brand, and culture into powerful environments built around people, processes, technologies, and business drivers. Our clients in diverse markets worldwide require high-performance, visually compelling, and sustainable environments to move their enterprise forward, support their culture, engage their staff, integrate technology, and drive efficiencies. As architects, designers, workplace strategists, and environmental specialists in the largest global architecture firm concentrating exclusively on interiors, we help clients articulate and align their business strategies and core values with the dynamic use of space.

Our team members are collaborative, creative, professional, expert, and entrepreneurial. This role is for a Senior Project Architect in our Boston studio.

Responsibilities

• Creates construction documents (CDs) and reviews them to ensure compliance with firm standards, mechanical, building systems, codes, and ADA requirements.
• For smaller projects, may oversee all CD production and review.
• Coordinates with senior technical staff and design staff to provide technical solutions for design dilemmas.
• Manages projects through the contract administration phase.
• Coordinates engineering consultants' work to ensure compliance with design solutions and timely submission of documents.
• Assists with support for field surveys in unusual circumstances.
• Manages the contract administration budget for assigned projects, ensuring adherence to the set budget and immediately informing relevant parties of any potential variances.
• May mentor Junior and Intermediate Designers, oversee tasks, and provide feedback on work product.
• Conducts client interviews to determine technical requirements for the design.

Requirements

• Graduate of architecture or design school (equivalent experience may be substituted).
• Architecture license required.
• 8+ years’ work experience on corporate interior design projects.
• Extensive knowledge of design principles and standards.
• Intermediate documentation and field observational skills.
• Advanced interior architecture detailing skills.
• Working knowledge of CDs and procedures, building systems, codes, ADA requirements, and space requirements.
• Working knowledge of contract administration.

Skills

• Intermediate MS Office Suite skills.
• Advanced Revit skills.
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Intermediate presentation and graphic communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and lead junior staff through a combination of direct authority and subject matter expertise.