Design Associate - Architecture

Haskell Company; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Haskell Company seeks an entry-level design professional to produce innovative, cost-effective designs, drawings and specifications. You will coordinate with other disciplines and work toward eligibility for the professional license exam.

You’ll develop construction documents, support field inspections, and contribute to project planning to meet schedules and budgets. Proficiency in Revit and MS Office is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering preferred.
• 3–5 years of experience required.
• Willingness to pursue licensure.

Responsibilities

• Conceptual Design: Establish discipline basis of design for design manager review.
• Detailed Design: perform dimensional/interference checks and basic design calculations.
• Detailing: develop designs and specs under supervision; prepare memos and drawings.
• Construction Documents: produce finished design documents with accuracy and clarity.
• Construction Support: review shop drawings for conformance; assist in field coordination and issue resolution.
• Planning/Scheduling/Profitability: create work plans and monitor workload; meet key dates.
• Project Management: document meetings and communications for discipline leader.

Skills

Construction documents

Microsoft Office

Licensed professional exam readiness

Eager to get licensed

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering

NCARB/ABET accreditation preferred

Tools

Revit

Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)

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 their discipline for assigned projects. You will emerge to an independent resource and begin to coordinate work with other disciplines. Additionally, you'll 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.
• Project Management
  • Adhere to project strategy.
  • Documents meetings and telephone conversations in order to communicate to discipline leader.
• Travel as required.

Education & Years of Experience:

• Design Associate I:Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering preferred. Degree from accredited curriculum (NCARB or ABET) preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience required

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• Intermediate skill with Microsoft Office (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Proficient in Revit
• Experience putting together Construction document sets
• Eager to get licensed

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.