Job Captain

The Architect's Newspaper; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Herman Coliver Locus Architecture is seeking a Job Captain with 3–5 years of experience to contribute to multi-family, civic and community-focused projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. The role emphasizes design leadership, detailing, and collaboration with clients and consultants.

Candidates should have an architectural degree and proficiency with Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, and rendering tools. The firm values sustainability, clarity in construction documents, and mentoring junior staff.

Qualifications

• Architectural degree from an accredited university.
• Strong design and communication skills.
• Extensive familiarity with construction documents set assembly.
• Understanding of how buildings are built and detailed.
• Dedication to environmental sustainability and resource efficiency.
• Comfort with Title 24, CalGreen and ADA regulations.
• Experience with Type I, Type III and/or Type V construction.
• Comfort with directing/supervising junior staff.
• Prior multi-family residential and/or civic/institutional experience from SD through CA.
• Thorough written and spoken English and architectural terminology.
• Passion for your work and collaborative nature.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop architectural solutions for listed projects.
• Collaborate with clients, consultants, and contractors on job sites.
• Mentor and supervise junior staff.

Skills

Strong design

Communication skills

Directing junior staff

Collaborative nature

English proficiency

Education

Architectural degree

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Rendering

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

Herman Coliver Locus Architecture is accepting applications for a Job Captain / 3-5 years experience as a JCHCLA, as a practice, is unusual. By design, 100% of our clients are community-based. Our work is focused in two distinct realms: We balance the ardor and rigor of designing multi-family, supportive housing with wrap-around social services for those most in need (low-income families and seniors, transitional-aged youth, people with disabilities and those experiencing homelessness), with the exhilaration of designing transcendent and exquisitely detailed sacred spaces and their attendant uses, largely, though not exclusively, within the Jewish community. We are a team of 14 design professionals, nationally recognized for our human-centered, sustainable, mission-driven work. We are most distinguished as a civic-minded, community-oriented, award-winning practice.

This year, we're actively working on the following projects:

• Supportive independent senior housing with child care on the Laguna Honda campus in SF
• 50 apartments of affordable family housing in Half Moon Bay
• Synagogue renovations in San Francisco and Carmel
• An early education and community center in the South Bay
• 136 supportive housing apartments in SF Mission neighborhood
• 175 apartments for low-income seniors with a community serving banquet hall in SF’s Chinatown
• 56 supportive apartments in San Rafael
• 118 apartments of affordable family housing in Fremont

You would be working on one or more of the first three listed projects.

What we expect of you:

• strong design and communication skills
• extensive familiarity with how a set of construction documents is drawn & assembled
• an understanding of and curiosity for how buildings are built & detailed
• a dedication to issues of environmental sustainability & resource efficiency
• strong, recently honed Revit, AutoCad, SketchUp, and rendering skills (Adobe Creative Cloud a plus)
• comfort with code analysis, as well as Title 24, CalGrace and ADA regulations
• experience with Type I, Type III and/or Type V construction
• an architectural degree from an accredited university
• comfort with directing/supervising those more junior
• prior multi-family residential and/or civic/institutional experience from SD through CA
• a thorough written and spoken command of the English language and architectural terminology
• a passion for your work
• a collaborative nature

What you can expect of us:

• opportunities to design
• the chance to engage with clients, consultants, contractors on job sites
• mentorship from firm leadership & more senior design and management staff
• a competitive salary based on level of experience, as well as full benefits
• a sustainable work / life balance
• a non-hierarchical, egalitarian work environment
• a casual, yet rigorous studio culture
• a focus on continued education
• great stories

Our studio in SOMA is near MUNI, BART and Caltrain. This position is permanent and full-time.