Senior Project Architect

Essential Functions

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This role provides expert leadership in:

• Documentation: Guiding the modeling and drawings used to accurately deliver projects
• Building Technology: Applying an understanding of construction methods to building design
• Project Delivery: Progressing project work from schematic design through construction documentation, ensuring design intent and technical quality are maintained
• Codes & Accessibility: Ensuring project designs and construction documents fully comply with applicable codes and accessibility standards
• Quality Standards: Promoting project quality through adherence to and the ongoing improvement of the company standards
• Sustainability: Conceiving projects with rigor to resolve human and environmental health impacts and meet sustainability goals
• Material Research: Selecting quality materials and identifying appropriate applications that consider the lifecycle of the products
• Construction Administration: Managing the construction phase through responsive coordination with the builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements
• Cost Consciousness: Analyzing construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and approved budgets and develops alternatives for controlling project costs
• Specification Writing: Defining the design intent for material qualitative requirements and performance standards to ensure contractually enforceable and accurate representation of the design

Demonstrates advanced skills in:

• Profitability: Effectively managing fees, resources, and the project delivery schedule to ensure the financial health of a project
• Planning: Developing effective spatial configuration options through analysis of adjacencies, phasing and expansion

Exhibits proficient ability in:

• Representational Skills: Guiding the visualization of design concepts
• Site Planning: Addressing project, sustainability, and regulatory requirements in the development of sites
• Programming: Progressing exploratory discussions to capture and align quantitative and functional requirements with aspirational and experiential goals
• Presenting Narratives: Conveying design vision through engaging and informative presentations to project stakeholders

Shows foundational capability in:

• Design Generation: Initiating the design approach to distinctive solutions which consider the totality of a project

EwingCole is a collaborative workplace that strives to recognize, and best align, the unique strengths of employees with project needs. At times, project responsibilities may require work outside the specific scope of a job description. Employees are expected to apply their skills where needed to support project success and client outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Architecture required, Master of Architecture preferred
• Registered Architect in at least one state with suitable credentials for registration in other states
• 15+ years of relevant experience
• Sustainability credential strongly encouraged
• Excels in the guidelines of preceding roles including Project Architect