Description:

As the leader of multiple design teams, you will guide projects from conception to completion, emphasizing creativity, collaboration, and sustainability. You will manage diverse teams, mentor staff, and work closely with clients to deliver functional and visually appealing designs within budget while ensuring design integrity and client satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

Lead and assist multiple design teams through all project phases including business development, concept design, planning and detailed design.

Lead the design effort inspiring creativity, critical thought and design excellence both internally and externally maintaining a collaborative open and non-ego driven process

Ensure the firms focus on innovative, creative and sustainable building is elevated and kept in the forefront of design

Manage and work with a diverse team of architects, interior designers, and engineers focused on project success

Mentor design staff and build confidence and trust in the office

Conceptualizes a building design from both a functional and aesthetic perspective in concert with a client's requirements, budget and program

Be open to, and skilled in developing and considering multiple design options

Develop designs through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats to express the design intent and communicate to project team, client, and building user groups

Lead design critiques and pin-ups

Be able to quickly assist in project or marketing design support and presentations

Responsible for projects of medium to large complexity/size

Participate and interact with clients from business development, during programming, design, and construction phases

Develop and maintain staff and client relationships

Utilizes 3D software, in addition to hand sketching, such as Sketchup and BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of buildings and their components

Evaluate and selects building systems, equipment, and materials relative to the design intent and project budget

Coordinates building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent

Analyzes site incorporating geotechnical, hydrological, environmental, social, economic and contextual conditions

Participates in development of the program, early site designs, test fits and other pre-design efforts

Ensures that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction

To present abstract ideas to the client and client representatives

Represent our client and firm at public meetings and jurisdictional hearings

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Qualifications and Skills

Strong portfolio documenting design authorship and excellence in design

Strong portfolio showing presentation graphics and tools utilized in communicating design from concept to client approval

Ability to deeply listen, collaborate consider different points of view objectively and without personal ego dominating the process

Ability to quickly generate and communicate different options and approaches to the same problem

Ability to engage in creative and critical thought

Ability to present and speak in public settings and jurisdictional settings

To produce design at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent and transformative

Understanding and skill in site design, relating building designs to specific sites and communities

To visually communicate concepts and ideas to others effectively through hand sketching and other graphic techniques quickly in dynamic situations

To lead and or provide design assist to one or more teams on medium to large size projects through the development of design concept

To check work of others for accuracy and completeness relative to the design intent and project budget

Requires proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Hand Sketching, Illustration and or use of 3d software for communicating early designs at a high level to client and design teams.

Knowledge of applicable accessibility, building and life-safety codes to a wide variety of project scopes and complexity

Knowledge of building construction systems, constructability & materials

Skills:

Architect, Architectural Design, Building Design, Project Delivery, Revit, Architecture, design, Construction Administration, Registered architect, Design development, Architecture project management, Higher Education, K-12

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

Hiring diverse talent

Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection

Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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