Architectural Designer: Sustainable, Interdisciplinary Impact

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Austin (CO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is seeking an architect with at least four years of professional experience to contribute to transformational projects worldwide. You will lead portions of projects, develop diagrams, and coordinate drawings, renderings, and models.

You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, mentor junior staff, and apply building materials and systems knowledge to integrate design with technical detail. Portfolios are required in the application.

Qualifications

• Completion of a professional degree in Architecture or a related field.
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience or equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Professional licensure process is close to completion; LEED accreditation preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, parametric and rendering software, and Adobe Suite.
• Proficiency in Google Workspace.

Responsibilities

• Actively leads distinct portions of a project with periodic supervision by Project Leadership.
• Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision quality with a high attention to precision and accuracy at an overall project level.
• Produces, coordinates and/or oversees presentation and contract deliverables such as diagrams, 3D models, drawings, renderings, physical models and animations.
• Effectively communicates internally with project teams and externally with consultants and clients through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• Creates and innovates with a strong conceptual design ability.
• Integrates interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the design of distinct portions of projects.
• Actively collaborates at a project, consultant team and client team level by critically and constructively evaluating ideas.
• Contributes to and actively participates within the studio and office.
• Demonstrates an intermediate understanding of building materials, systems, specifications, codes, details and construction techniques.
• Able to enrich design concepts through technical strategies.
• Identifies and effectively uses appropriate tools to design and document at all project phases.
• Manages time and workload of own work efforts and those of others to meet project task deadlines and commitments, with occasional interaction and direction from Project Leadership.
• Guides and teaches less experienced staff.

Skills

Strong communication

Leadership

Team collaboration

Education

Professional degree in Architecture or related field

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

Rhino

Parametric design

Adobe Suite

Google Workspace

Job description

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is seeking an architect with at least four years of professional experience to contribute to transformational projects worldwide. You will lead portions of projects, develop diagrams, and coordinate drawings, renderings, and models.

You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, mentor junior staff, and apply building materials and systems knowledge to integrate design with technical detail. Portfolios are required in the application.