What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Designer position at PBK?
The Senior Designer is highly motivated, creative, and ready to join our design team. This challenging and fast paced position will require a personable candidate with experience in designing educational facilities, sports, healthcare or large-scale corporate facilities, drawing, sketching and preparation of design presentation drawings.
Your Impact
Your Impact
- Create architectural design concepts and continue the development through all design phases.
- Work well in a design team environment and with senior management.
- Exhibit extremely strong inter-personal skills.
- Possess strong graphics and sketching skills.
- Be an effective presenter of ideas and concepts.
- Possess knowledge of interior finishes and trends.
- Be completely dedicated to client service.
- Must be a licensed Architect.
- 5 years of professional experience required.
- Must demonstrate proficiency in using Revit Architecture.
- Ability to use ACAD, Photoshop, SketchUp or other 3D Modeling, Animation, Rendering computer graphics programs a plus.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work well under pressure, juggle and prioritize multiple projects and adjust work accordingly, often against tight deadlines.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to interact with senior management, external client organizations and vendors.
- Demonstrated experience leading design efforts on K-12 educational projects from concept through design development
- Strong design portfolio showcasing innovative, functional, and client-focused solutions across large-scale or complex projects
- Advanced proficiency in visual communication, including hand sketching, digital rendering, and presentation graphics
- Ability to translate client vision and educational programming into compelling, buildable design concepts
- Experience collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams, including engineers, consultants, and internal stakeholders
- Proven success presenting design concepts to clients, school districts, or governing bodies with confidence and clarity
- Strong understanding of current trends in educational design, including flexibility, safety, and student-centered environments
- Experience mentoring junior designers and contributing to a collaborative, high-performing design culture
- Ability to balance creativity with technical feasibility, budget considerations, and project timelines
- Familiarity with planning processes, stakeholder engagement, and public-sector project delivery