What are the responsibilities and job description for the Architectural Designer position at Elmington?
We are hiring founding team members. This is a unique opportunity to join a new architecture practice launching under an established developer with a built-in project pipeline from day one. Elmington is a Nashville based company providing comprehensive residential and commercial services through a collaborative, partnership driven approach. The firm specializes in affordable and multifamily housing, with over 35 projects completed nationwide.
In this role, you’ll play a key role in shaping the firm’s design standards, workflows, and culture while working directly with decision makers on active, real-world projects. You’ll experience accelerated professional growth, early leadership opportunities, and the chance to contribute to meaningful, community focused affordable housing projects that make a real impact.
If you’re motivated by meaningful work, professional growth, and the opportunity to help build something new from the ground up, we’d love to connect.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
At Elmington, we foster an entrepreneurial mindset, compensating for the value our team members bring to the table. We provide an environment that encourages room for advancement and career succession, recognizing and rewarding contributions to our collective success. With a team collaboration ethos, constant improvement is not just encouraged but embedded in our culture, offering autonomy to individuals who thrive on innovation.
The company will recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate its employees based upon factors such as work quality, behavior, training, and experience. In compliance with local, state, and federal laws, we provide equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, protected age category, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, military status, or physical or mental disability of any individual who is otherwise qualified.
In this role, you’ll play a key role in shaping the firm’s design standards, workflows, and culture while working directly with decision makers on active, real-world projects. You’ll experience accelerated professional growth, early leadership opportunities, and the chance to contribute to meaningful, community focused affordable housing projects that make a real impact.
If you’re motivated by meaningful work, professional growth, and the opportunity to help build something new from the ground up, we’d love to connect.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Communication proficiency
- Planning and organizing
- Prioritizing
- Ethical conduct
- Problem assessment and problem solving
- Information gathering
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Flexibility
- Adaptability
- Teamwork oriented
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture
- 3-5 years of professional experience in multifamily residential, student housing, hospitality, commercial or related market sectors.
- Architectural registration is not required; progress toward licensure is preferred.
- Experience working through all design phases, with knowledge of materials and detailing associated with Type I, Type III and Type V multifamily and mixed-use construction.
- Experience with garden-style or mid-rise multi-family projects.
- In-depth knowledge of commercial real estate design principles, industry standards, building codes, and zoning regulations
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Blubeam, Microsoft Office, and Procore.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining exceptional attention to detail, organization, and accountability.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively alongside developers, builders, designers, and marketing teams.
- Strong understanding of brand-driven design and the ability to creatively translate brand guidelines into residential spaces.
- Assist in the creation of conceptual site plans and density studies, incorporating feedback from stakeholders and regulatory authorities.
- Support design development through conceptual and schematic architectural plans, renderings, and presentations.
- Prepare comprehensive architectural construction documents, schedules, and details using Revit.
- Coordinate architectural Revit models with consultants and disciplines to ensure complete and accurate 3D models and 2D drawing deliverables.
- Participate in construction administration, including responding to RFI’s and reviewing submittals.
- Frequently sit, stand and walk
- Regularly required to talk or hear
- Frequently required to use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls
- Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
- Vision abilities to include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
- Temperature in the workplace is typically moderate
- Travel Requirements This position requires travel to ensure projects and timelines are aligned.
At Elmington, we foster an entrepreneurial mindset, compensating for the value our team members bring to the table. We provide an environment that encourages room for advancement and career succession, recognizing and rewarding contributions to our collective success. With a team collaboration ethos, constant improvement is not just encouraged but embedded in our culture, offering autonomy to individuals who thrive on innovation.
The company will recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate its employees based upon factors such as work quality, behavior, training, and experience. In compliance with local, state, and federal laws, we provide equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, protected age category, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, military status, or physical or mental disability of any individual who is otherwise qualified.