Design Associate - Architecture

The Haskell Company; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 48,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Haskell is seeking an entry-level design professional to produce innovative and cost-effective architectural designs, drawings, and specifications for assigned projects. You’ll coordinate with other disciplines and work toward licensure eligibility while growing with a nationally recognized Top Workplace.

You will develop in drafting and detailing, contribute to construction documents, and support field inspections under supervision, with training in design development and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture from an accredited program; NCARB or ABET accreditation preferred.
• Entry-level role with potential to develop into licensed professional.

Responsibilities

• Conceptual Design: Establish Discipline basis of design for Design Manager to review.
• Detailed Design: Perform dimensional/interference checks and basic design; perform analyses; ensure safety in drawings; comply with Owner criteria.
• Detailing: Apply design and detailing fundamentals; assist Lead Professional with plotting, production, and writing specifications; ensure code compliance; maintain AE checklists; coordinate reviews; prepare memos; ensure quality.
• Construction Documents: Produce organized, finished design documents from layouts or sketches.
• Construction Support: Check shop drawings, assist in field inspections, issue field orders, respond to questions, create inspection reports.
• Planning, Scheduling and Profitability: Create work plan; monitor workload; meet dates; discuss progress; inform changes; design to budget man-hours.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Attention to detail

Willingness to learn

Team coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture

NCARB or ABET accreditation preferred

Tools

Sketch-Up

Revit

AutoCAD

Bluebeam

Microsoft Office

Job description

At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you’ll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way while making a real impact.

In this role, you will have entry level responsibility, as a design professional, for the production of innovative, appropriate, cost-effective designs, drawings and specifications in your discipline for assigned projects. You will emerge to an independent resource and begin to coordinate work with other disciplines. Additionally, you will work to fulfill experience requirements for eligibility to take professional license exam.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conceptual Design
  • Establish Discipline basis of design for Design Manager to review.
• Detailed Design
  • Analysis Ability
    • Performs dimensional, interference and basic design checks on the layouts and sketches of Licensed Professional and, as requested, on interdisciplinary drawing sets.
    • Performs analysis or calculations as assigned.
    • Designing for Safety incorporated into drawings.
    • Responsible for design compliance with Owner criteria.
• Detailing
  • Applies discipline design and detailing fundamentals in developing designs and specifications under the supervision of and subject to final approval by the Lead Professional.
  • Assists Lead Professional with plotting/production/assembly of drawing packages and writing specifications.
  • Code compliance review with a design professional.
  • Maintains AE checklists for Design Manager to review.
  • Participates in coordination review sessions
  • Maintains orderly work files and prepares clear, well written memos/correspondence. When assigned, prepares presentation materials.
  • Coordinates and checks work carefully to minimize all deficiencies, errors and omissions.
  • Uses Haskell standards and procedures.
• Construction Documents
  • Produces well-organized, finished design documents of good appearance, accuracy, clarity and correctness from layouts, sketches or written instructions.
• Construction Support
  • Subject to final approval of Lead Professional, checks shop drawings and submittal data for conformance with contract documents.
  • Assists Lead Professional in field inspections, development of solutions to field problems, preparation of field orders, addenda and record drawings.
  • Shop drawings returned on schedule.
  • Responds to field/construction questions as directed by discipline leader.
  • Creates inspection reports and punch lists.
• Planning, Scheduling and Profitability
  • Creates work plan for assigned tasks.Monitors and projects personal workload status, advising supervisor of difficulties in accomplishing schedules.
  • Meets scheduled key dates.
  • Discusses progress regularly with Licensed Professional of Record.
  • Advises Design Manager of changes.
  • Design to budget man-hours.

Education & Years of Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture required. Degree from accredited curriculum (NCARB or ABET) preferred.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• Discipline production software at beginner level (i.e., Sketch-Up).
• Intermediate skill with Microsoft Office (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Working knowledge of Revit; familiarity with AutoCAD, Bluebeam, and visualization software.
• Ability to assist with design development, construction documents, detailing, and presentation materials.
• Basic understanding of building systems, construction methods, codes, and accessibility requirements.
• Ability to coordinate assigned work with architects, engineers, and other team members.
• Strong communication, organization, attention to detail, and willingness to learn.
• Interest in healthcare architecture and pursuit of architectural licensure.
• Preferred qualifications
  • Internship or professional experience in healthcare architecture.
  • Professional architecture degree from a NAAB-accredited program.
  • Established NCARB Record and progress toward AXP completion and the ARE.
  • Familiarity with healthcare planning, FGI Guidelines, and occupied facility renovations.
  • Experience with multidisciplinary BIM coordination.

At Haskell, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, professional development opportunities, and more. Join us and be part of a team where your contributions make a difference.

Environmental Factors and/or Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, this position is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations; and the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information. The associate frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities:

Haskell will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

Haskell is an Equal Opportunity Employer (Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities) and Drug-Free Workplace.