Architectural Designer

Douglas C. Wright Architects; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k

Profit Sharing

Pre-tax Transit

Holidays

PTO

Summer Fridays

Educational Discounts

Job summary

Douglas Wright Architects in New York seeks a motivated architect with 4+ years of experience for a full-time position, with salary commensurate with experience. The role emphasizes high-end residential projects, client and consultant coordination, budgets, schedules, and construction documents through administration.

Proficiency in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite is required; knowledge of SketchUp and Revit is valued.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in architecture.
• Experience with high-end residential work (apartments, townhouses, or single family homes).
• Familiarity with project management aspects (budgets, schedules, client/consultant communications, document management from design to construction documents, construction administration).

Responsibilities

• Manage budgets and schedules for multiple projects.
• Coordinate with clients, consultants and contractors through design and construction documents.
• Produce construction documentation and oversee administration through project close.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Communication

Multi-tasking

Time management

Project coordination

Education

B.Arch or graduate degree

Tools

AutoCAD

Adobe Creative Suite

Photoshop

InDesign

PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

SketchUp

Revit

Job description

Douglas Wright Architects seeks highly motivated Architects with 4+ years experience for a full time position. In addition to full-time salary commensurate with experience, the position offers benefits including health insurance, 401k, profit sharing, pre-tax transit, holidays, PTO, summer fridays, and educational discounts among others.

For the positions offered, we would look for the following:

• 4 to 6 years experience
• familiaritywith aspects of project management (budgets, schedules, communications with clients and consultants, document management from design through construction documents, document production and Construction Administration)
• Experience with high-end residential work (either apartments, townhouses, or single family homes)
• Experience with country clubs a plus, but not required.
• Experience working with teams of 2 or more architects
• Leadership and collaboration skills
• Good communication skills with other architects, contractors, consultants and the experience of coordinating these teams
• Multi-tasking/time management skills: the ability to work on several projects at the same time in either a management or production role.
• Graduate level / B.Arch degree from a school with courses in the history of architecture and traditional design methods a plus

The position requires fluency in AutoCAD. High proficiency or the ability to manage designers in Adobe Creative Suite programs, Photoshop, In Design, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Knowlege of Google SketchUp and/or Revit would be highly regarded though not required.

Refined skills in the following are preferred, though not required:

• Freehand drawing and design ability, hand drafting
• Rendering skills in watercolor, marker, pencil or other media

We are a young firm with much room for advancement in these positions. These are offered as career track positions. Excellent performance would be recognized and rewarded with greater responsibilities and compensation. Salaries would be commensurate with experience, effort, and production.

salary requirements.

An applicant must be authorized to work in the US.

Please see our website: https://dcwarchitects.com/ for an overview of the firm’s projects, design philosophy and work approach, and biography, and to consider if you would be interested in applying for the positions.

• High-end residential – both houses and apartments
• Large scale residential estates
• Master planning for clubs, resorts, and other institutions
• Restorations and renovations
• Country clubs
• Institutional buildings
• Commercial projects

Our health insurance plan can be joined after three months employment with the firm. After six months of employment, DCWA pays the cost of health insurance for the individual employee. The remainder of premiums for tother participants or family can be paid by the employee pre-tax through DCW Architects at our group rate. You would be an 'at will' employee. Position could start immediately.