Senior Architect - Multifamily Residential (Architecture)
Are you looking for an opportunity to grow your career? We want to hear from you! Greenfield Architects is hiring a Senior Architect to lead our Multifamily Residential Studio. This position will serve as a leader and mentor to inspire and guide the studio team through all phases of the design process. The successful candidate will have the ability to help refine the skills of the existing team members, while providing both design and technical direction, ensuring client satisfaction, profitable project performance, and maintaining project quality.
The Senior Architect MFR is responsible for the overall design and management of projects under the direction and review by the President of Greenfield Architects Ltd. and Vice President of Greenfield Architects Ltd. This position requires the application of a high degree of design and technical skills, building code compliance, project administration, schedule, cost, and quality control.
Greenfield Architects Ltd. was established in 1990 and brings a wealth of experience in facility design, construction, and energy performance. We are committed to innovation, industry leadership, environmental stewardship, and helping meet the needs of our community.
Responsibilities:
- Manage client relationship including proposal development, presentation, contract management, and client communication.
- Produce proposals for design services with a high degree of success in competitive circumstances and manage the production of design services within those estimated costs.
- Lead overall design process while managing multiple projects between $2M to $80M dollars on an annual basis.
- Manage entire design team for production of project design drawings and construction documents for multi-family residential projects. Other project experience in the design of retail centers, medical offices, business offices, hotels, distribution, industrial, and universities is a plus.
- Ensure customer satisfaction by coordinating and monitoring service for quality performance.
- Manage construction administration of projects including bidding, shop drawing review, RFIs, and periodic on-site observation of work during construction to monitor compliance with construction documents.
- Manage and coordinate outside engineers, specialty consultants, and inside resources.
- Utilize understanding of building costs, and drivers of those costs, while managing the design process to produce a design representing a construction project that is within established cost parameters.
- Communicate change concepts, engage in constructive discussions about change and impact thereof, and lead change initiatives as needed.
- Identify multiple solutions to a problem and evaluate and determine which solutions are most effective.
- Utilize creativity and innovation to think outside the box using an entrepreneurial spirit.
Important Areas of Expertise:
- Bachelor of Architecture (BARCH) degree
- Minimum 10 years as a Licensed Architect in the US
- LEED BD + C preferred
- 10 or more years of Architectural firm experience in designing and managing Multifamily Residential Projects
- Proficient in Revit, AutoCad, & Microsoft Office Suite
- Demonstrated high order of architectural competence, both as an individual and as a leader within the team.
- Strong Presentation Skills-both written & verbal.
Working for Greenfield Architects:
Greenfield Architects Ltd. as part of The High Company, LLC offers a competitive benefit package:
- Tuition Assistance with 100 percent reimbursement for approved courses and degree programs which are job related and approved in advance by your supervisor
- Employee Assistance Program provides professional, confidential assistance for any type of personal issue you or your eligible dependents are experiencing
- Excellent benefits including medical, dental and vision available for full-time coworkers and family. Vacation is offered to regular full-time coworkers and is earned annually on your anniversary date. You may carry over a portion of your hours into the next anniversary year
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with a company match.
- Ten Paid Holidays
- Short Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Reimbursement of one Architectural License renewal fee.
- Reimbursement of membership fee to the American Institute of Architects.
Other Details:
- You will work in a professional office environment. Your desk will be near a window with plenty of natural light
- Limited travel between project meetings or construction sites (typically 1-2 hours)
- You may be asked to participate in a case study or take an assessment
- Applications via email will not be reviewed. Please apply online via the career's website
Behaviors
Preferred- Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
- Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject
Motivations
Preferred- Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
- Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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