Senior Architect - Life Science

JR United Kingdom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and design company seeks a Senior Architect – Life Sciences to join their Birmingham office. In this role, you'll leverage your expertise in delivering complex projects within the life sciences sector, ensuring high-quality architectural solutions. The company offers competitive salary and exceptional benefits, including a company car or cash allowance, generous pension contributions, and ample annual leave.

Benefits

Company car or cash allowance

Up to 6% matched contributory pension plan

25 days annual leave plus options to buy additional leave

Discount schemes (gym memberships, mobile phones, etc.)

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering projects from concept to detailed design in life sciences.
• Strong ability to produce technical details and specifications.
• Experience in managing multidisciplinary projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and specify all aspects of Architecture per guidelines and standards.
• Manage project delivery, ensuring time, cost, and quality requirements are met.
• Contribute to mentoring Early Careers population.

Skills

Creativity

Imagination

Vision

Technical knowledge

Education

Degree in Architecture or related field

Job description

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Senior Architect - Life Science, Birmingham

Client: BakerHicks

Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

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Posted:

04.06.2025

Expiry Date:

19.07.2025

Job Description:

Why this role?

Our architects specialise in highly regulated and complex project delivery. They take the time to understand a client’s process flows and unique hurdles of each environment. This creates highly efficient workflows with user safety and wellbeing at their core.

Thanks to years of technical expertise in delivering science and technology facilities, we understand the changing nature of scientific discovery and design for future flexibility from day one, so the assets meet the changing needs of users.

Our Manchester office is looking to grow their team with a Senior Architect – Life Sciences.

About You

As Senior Architect – Life Sciences, you will have experience in delivering projects from concept to detailed design in the life science sector for laboratories and GMP manufacturing facilities. You will be part of an enthusiastic and committed team of Architects and Technicians who will deliver high-quality output on projects.

To be successful, you will exhibit high levels of creativity, imagination, vision, and enthusiasm to produce distinctive architectural solutions and have good knowledge in producing technical details and specifications.

Key Purpose

At BakerHicks, we provide the industry’s most creative minds the space to consider, collaborate, innovate, and develop advanced technologies and processes. From large-scale discovery and R&D facilities supporting the science community, health service, pharmaceutical, bioscience, fine chemicals, and other industries, to laboratory refurbishments across the UK and Europe, we’re contributing to making the world a better place, one project at a time.

• Design and specify all aspects of Architecture in accordance with current guidelines, standards, regulations, and project deliverables
• Contribute to the development and mentoring of our Early Careers population and improve departmental capabilities
• Manage Architectural involvement in multidisciplinary projects, including time, cost, quality, and client relationship management and delivery
• Champion quality and compliance controls within local teams and projects

Each project is different. Our multidisciplinary project delivery approach ensures schemes are compliant, safe, and flexible for reconfiguration and expansion as markets evolve.

Many positions are subject to security clearance. The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain security clearance as required by clients and sectors.

Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting.

About BakerHicks

We’ve been innovating in design, engineering, and project delivery since 1957, operating from 14 locations across Europe. For more about our story, see: About | BakerHicks.

BakerHicks is a Morgan Sindall Group company.

Join some of the industry’s most talented people in our appealing, friendly, accessible offices. Our salary and benefits packages are among the best in the industry, including:

• Company car or cash allowance
• Up to 6% matched contributory pension plan
• 25 days annual leave plus options to buy additional leave
• Discount schemes (gym memberships, mobile phones, etc.)