Project Architect

PureGym; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Free nationwide gym membership for you

Hybrid working

Flexible working culture

Personal private healthcare including

Life insurance x4

Company pension contribution

25 days annual leave plus 1 personal

Option to purchase additional holiday

Great learning & development resources

Enhanced maternity pay, paternity and

adoption leave

Descripción de la vacante

PureGym is seeking a Project Architect (6 Month FTC) to join the Property Development Team. This hybrid role involves 1-2 days per week in our London or Leeds offices, with the architectural function driving design across new and refurb projects.

You will be fully accountable for architectural delivery, ensuring brand standards, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to continuous improvement of gym formats and standards.

Formación

• Qualified Architect with industry recognised certification and credentials.
• Experience of design and delivery of multi-site property developments.
• Experience in large-scale organisations in leisure, retail or hospitality.
• Able to travel as required.
• Strong communication with senior management and stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Architectural delivery of new sites acquisitions and refurbishment from feasibility through design to completion and handover.
• Assess feasibility of new sites before acquisition and identify refurbishment opportunities.
• Provide technical evaluation and design requirements for each site.
• Ensure approved design adheres to brand format requirements and standards.
• Supply input on building control, fire regulations, technical standards, etc.
• Create architectural documentation/outputs for building approvals and consents.
• Contribute to decision making at key stages in the property development process.
• Support continuous improvement of gym formats and standards.
• Represent Development function internally and externally.

Conocimientos

Architectural delivery

Multi-site projects

Autonomous working

Stakeholder comms

Lean thinking

Travel flexibility

Leisure/retail exp

Communication skills

Problem solving under pressure

Educación

Architect qualification

Descripción del empleo

The PureGym Way

The PureGym Group is a global gym business with a community of more than 700 gyms and over 2 million members. At PureGym, everything we do comes back to one simple idea: helping you feel good.

We're proud of our people and have a strong focus on internal progression. Championing diversity, we are committed to providing an excellent employee experience and workplace culture. As such, we are a Disability Confident Committed employer, and offer interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria for a role, and opt‑in to the scheme on their application form.

Our gyms are friendly, supportive, and judgement‑free spaces where everybody can come in, work out and leave Feeling PureGym Good. We are proud to be certified byTop Employers Institute.See our careers page for full benefits.

We offer

• Free nationwide gym membership for you + 1
• Hybrid working
• A truly flexible working culture
• Personal private healthcare, including digital GP
• Life insurance x4
• Company pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave, plus 1 personal day
• Option to purchase additional holiday (up to 5 days)
• Great learning & development resources
• Enhanced maternity pay, paternity and adoption leave

The Role

Location: London or Leeds Hybrid

Type: Full Time

Contract type: 6 month Fixed Term Contract

We are looking for aProject Architect (6 Month FTC) to join the Property Development Team.

This is a hybrid role, working in our Leeds/London office 1-2 days per week

The Role

The Architectural function is a key part of the Property Development Team. With over 380 gyms in the UK, the PureGym brand is going from strength to strength on its growth journey, underpinned by a technology-enabled offer delivering high quality, affordable fitness that can be accessed flexibly.

You will be fully accountable for the architectural design of all allocated property development projects, covering either, or both, new and existing sites. In addition, to contribute to the wider Development department in establishing a culture of best practice and continuous improvement.

Main Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architectural delivery of both new sites acquisitions and refurbishment projects from feasibility through design to completion and handover.
• Assessing high‑level feasibility of new sites before acquisition and identifying optimal refurbishment opportunities across the existing estate.
• Providing the appropriate technical evaluation and insight for each site and delivering on the corresponding architectural and design requirements.
• Ensuring the approved design adheres to the key brand format requirements and standards.
• Supply specialist technical input regarding building control, fire regulations, technical standards etc. into the design of each site.
• Identify and create all necessary architectural documentation/outputs required to obtain all required/appropriate building approvals and consents.
• Contributing to appropriate decision making at key stages in the property development process using governance forums where required.
• Proactive input into the continuous improvement of gym formats and standards.
• Supporting, recognising and encouraging peers to achieve team goals while fostering a positive, constructive environment.
• Positively representing the Development function internally and being an ambassador for PureGym externally.
• Being recognized as someone who makes a significant contribution across the Development function.

The Person

• Qualified Architect with industry recognised certification and credentials.
• Experience of design and delivery of multi‑site property developments consistently and at scale.
• Ideally has experience working in or with large scale organisations in customer facing industries such as leisure, retail or hospitality.
• A highly capable operator who can work autonomously to resolve sometimes complex problems and make critical decisions under pressure.
• Proactive, accountable, hands on, adaptable and able to react quickly to a fast moving, ever‑changing environment.
• Technically competent and solution focused, can identify, prioritise and escalating issues/opportunities appropriately.
• An excellent communicator, with the ability to simply convey complex messages and engage with senior management.
• Commercially astute, able to evaluate investment decisions considering member brand expectations balanced with the required levels of return.
• Member focused, always striving to improve the experience for all members through own area or working across the business.
• Process orientated, with the ability to identify and remove waste through applying lean thinking.
• Able to work cross‑functionally, to bring together all parts of the business to deliver the right outcome for members and PureGym.
• Ideally has a passion for or an interest in fitness and leisure
• Able to travel as required.

PureGym is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our company mantra is ‘Everybody Welcome’ and we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive place to work. From a hiring standpoint, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to ensuring that our PureGym colleagues reflect the diversity of the nation as well as our millions of gym members we serve.

Please note: Qualifications and Skills represent the essential criteria for the role, which need to be met to be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. Volume of eligible applications may impact everyone being able to be offered an interview.