Associate Architect

ingletonwood; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

Holiday: 25 days + BH

Coaching & mentoring

Living wage employer

Pension scheme

Health plan

Membership support

Family policies

Team events

Cycle to work

Parking (London excluded)

Season ticket loan

Death in service

Early finish incentives

Volunteer leave

Health & wellness programs

Referral scheme

Employee groups

Job summary

Ingleton Wood in London seeks an Associate/Senior Associate Architect to join our office. You will lead architectural design, project delivery and management across diverse sectors, with a path toward team leadership and succession planning for the London office.

The successful candidate will develop the team, manage projects from inception to completion and grow client relationships, delivering high quality architectural solutions.

Qualifications

• Part III RIBA qualification with 5+ years PQE.
• Experience on education, residential and social housing projects.
• BIM experience using REVIT.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from inception to completion across multiple sectors.
• Develop business opportunities and grow the London practice.
• Provide architectural design, project delivery and management services.
• Mentor and develop the architectural team.
• Monitor quality assurance, resource planning and client relationships.

Skills

Building Regulations

NBS specification

3D Revit

Client relationship management

Financial management

Education

Part III RIBA qualification

Tools

REVIT BIM

Tendering software

Job description

About us…

Ingleton Wood is a value‑led, people focussed practice providing clients with inspirational and practical design solutions; we exist to improve the communities in which we all live and work.

Originally established in 1935, we are a dynamic multi‑disciplinary property and construction consultancy, providing a wide range of services across many industry sectors, including commercial, education, defence, residential and more.

We develop long term relationships with clients, adding value at every stage of development. We are one of a few medium‑size consultancies offering integrated design and technical expertise.

We have a nationwide presence with offices located across the UK. We plan to open further sites in the future to develop our national service.

Life At Ingleton Wood…

is busy but great fun, we work hard, and we play hard. There is a huge emphasis on teams and working collaboratively both professionally and socially.

We bring people together to improve the quality and sustainability of the built environment through our expert knowledge in delivering local solutions for global issues. A sentiment underpinned by our shared vision of solving global challenges one building at a time, and supported through our values;

We are progressive

We collaborate

We support

We take ownership

To see a real time view of what we are up to check our social channels

You can expect…

• Opportunities for flexible and remote working – we understand a work life balance helps us all.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days plus bank holidays with long service recognition and festive shutdown.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth in a supportive environment including in‑house coaching and mentoring.
• Competitive salaries with regular review and benchmarking to ensure fair pay. We are a real living wage employer.
• Competitive Company Pension Scheme.
• Health cash plan scheme.
• Professional membership support
• Family policies
• Great office team building events and fully expensed seasonal social events.
• Cycle to work Scheme.
• On‑site parking facilities (excluding London office)
• Season Ticket Loan (if applicable)
• Death in service benefit.
• Early Finish incentives when the Practice targets are hit.
• Additional leave allocated for volunteering (up to 2 days).

• Health & Mental Wellness Programs.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• Employee working groups

The role…

We are currently recruiting an Associate/Senior Associate Architect to join our London office. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and commercially minded architect to work alongside the existing Architectural Director, with a clear pathway towards future team leadership.

The successful candidate will provide architectural design, project delivery and project management services across a diverse range of sectors and project types. In addition to leading projects, the role will progressively assume greater responsibility for the management and growth of the architectural team, supporting our succession planning strategy and the continued development of the London office.

Over time, the successful candidate will need to develop into full responsibility for:

• Day‑to‑day management and mentoring of the architectural team.
• Oversight of project delivery, quality assurance and resource planning.
• Business development, client relationship management and work winning.
• Fee generation and pipeline development for the entire London architectural team.
• Financial management, forecasting and performance reporting.

The role will involve leading projects from inception through to completion across a broad range of sectors, with project values typically ranging from £300,000 to £40 million. The successful candidate will be expected to build strong client relationships, identify new business opportunities and contribute positively to the growth and success of the wider practice.

Please Note: Due to the nature of the work undertaken successful applicants will need to have active UK SC Clearance or the ability to gain UK SC clearance. Further information can be found at: National security vetting: clearance levels – GOV.UK

The selected candidate will…

• Ability to understand client instructions and requirements to develop their briefs, produce feasibility reports for clients, prepare sketch feasibility layouts to assist project viability.
• Assist with bid preparations and organising tender/fee submissions.
• Prepare any necessary building regulation, planning applications, Listed Building applications and monitor and deal with as necessary by liaising with authorities.
• Prepare design concepts for competitive tenders including production of working drawings and plans, producing pre-tender estimates, and obtaining costs from suppliers, undertake tendering process and post tender analysis, including production of tender report to client.
• Potential value engineering exercise and make recommendations to client.
• Act as Project Manager on projects by attending site for Pre‑Start and Project Meetings, understand and clearly define clients’ expectations to provide advice, keep them informed of progress on projects and make them aware of technical and financial implications.
• Continually improve team profitability by managing time and resources allocated to projects and by ensuring that time spent on projects is recorded and that fee invoicing is carried out at appropriate stages.
• Grow client portfolio through networking opportunities and assist with work generation.

Essential skills, experience, and attributes…

• Have a thorough understanding of the Building Regulations.
• Understand the NBS specification system.
• Knowledge of health and housing sector design, including HBN’s, HTM’s etc.
• Possess good hand sketching skills and be able to undertake draft housing master planning
• Knowledge of drafting fee proposals and understanding of financial management
• Have thorough working knowledge of 3D Revit and be comfortable starting drawings from scratch
• Part III RIBA qualified with 5+ years PQE
• Experience of working on education, residential projects, and social housing
• BIM experience using REVIT.
• Experienced in networking and client facing roles.

We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.