Associate Architect | Brisbane

Mega Recruitment; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mega Recruitment is seeking an experienced Associate Architect in Brisbane to join a senior team. You will lead projects from inception to completion, oversee teams, budgets and resources, and mentor staff while coordinating with stakeholders.

This role emphasizes ownership, technical excellence and strategic project delivery. You will work on design through construction, ensure quality and resource alignment, and contribute to the firm’s architectural standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of architectural experience.
• Strong Australian project experience.
• Current experience working within a Brisbane architectural practice.
• Proven experience leading architectural projects from start to finish.
• Experience managing teams, budgets, resources and programmes.
• Strong technical and construction knowledge.
• Confidence resolving complex project and delivery issues.
• Experience mentoring and developing architectural staff.
• Strong consultant, stakeholder and client coordination skills.
• A solid understanding of Revit.
• Excellent communication and leadership capability.
• Full Australian working rights.

Responsibilities

• Leading projects from inception through to completion.
• Managing project teams and allocating resources effectively.
• Monitoring project budgets, programmes and deliverables.
• Overseeing documentation and technical quality.
• Coordinating consultants and external stakeholders.
• Resolving project issues as they arise.
• Working closely with senior leadership on project strategy and decision-making.
• Mentoring and developing junior and mid-level staff.
• Managing client relationships and project expectations.
• Ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to a high architectural standard.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Client coordination

Project management

Communication

Tools

Revit

Job description

We’re working with an established and highly regarded architectural practice in Brisbane seeking an experienced Associate Architect to join their senior team.

This is a role for someone who knows how to take ownership.

You’ll be overseeing projects from start to finish, managing teams, resources and budgets, resolving issues as they arise and working closely with the senior leadership team to ensure projects are delivered successfully.

We’re looking for someone who is highly technical, commercially aware and confident across all phases of architecture, but who also genuinely enjoys leading and mentoring others.

As an Associate Architect, you’ll be responsible for managing your own projects while overseeing the people delivering them.

You’ll be involved from the early stages through design, documentation and construction, ensuring each project is properly resourced, coordinated and delivered to the required standard.

You’ll be expected to understand the bigger picture while still being capable of getting into the detail when needed.

This will include:

Leading projects from inception through to completion

Managing project teams and allocating resources effectively

Monitoring project budgets, programmes and deliverables

Overseeing documentation and technical quality

Coordinating consultants and external stakeholders

Resolving project issues as they arise

Working closely with senior leadership on project strategy and decision-making

Mentoring and developing junior and mid-level staff

Managing client relationships and project expectations

Ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to a high architectural standard

In the role as an Associate Architect, we require the following minimum qualifications:

10+ years of architectural experience

Strong Australian project experience

Current experience working within a Brisbane architectural practice

Proven experience leading architectural projects from start to finish

Experience managing teams, budgets, resources and programmes

Strong technical and construction knowledge

Confidence resolving complex project and delivery issues

Experience mentoring and developing architectural staff

Strong consultant, stakeholder and client coordination skills

A solid understanding of Revit

Excellent communication and leadership capability

Full Australian working rights

Your role will be more focused on project leadership and oversight than day-to-day documentation, however you will still need to understand Revit and be technically strong enough to review, guide and challenge the work being produced by your team.

This opportunity will suit someone who enjoys having responsibility and wants to be trusted to run their own projects.

You may already hold an Associate title and be looking for a stronger opportunity, or you may be doing everything expected of an Associate but haven’t yet received the recognition or progression that comes with it.

If you enjoy mentoring people, building strong project teams, solving problems and seeing a project through from the early stages to completion, this is the kind of role where those strengths will be valued.

Applicants must currently be based in Brisbane and working within an architectural practice, with strong and recent local Australian experience at this level.
Full Australian working rights are essential.

Due to the seniority of the position and the level of local project knowledge required, overseas applications will not be considered

This is an opportunity to step into a senior role where you’ll have genuine ownership of your projects and the opportunity to influence both project outcomes and the people around you.

You’ll be joining an established practice where your technical experience, leadership capability and ability to bring the best out of a team will be recognised.

For someone already operating at this level but looking for the title, responsibility and recognition to match, this could be a very timely next move.

If you’re an experienced Architect or Associate who enjoys running projects, leading teams and taking responsibility from start to finish, we’d love to hear from you.