Project Architect

Ballinger

Philadelphia (Philadelphia County)

Hybrid

USD 90,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

401(k) Plan

Paid Holidays

Personal Time Off (PTO)

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Parental Leave

Commuter Benefits

EAP

Fresh fruit and yogurt provided every‑

Job summary

Ballinger, an Architecture Engineering Firm, seeks a Project Architect in Philadelphia to lead projects within healthcare, corporate, science, and academic teams. The role blends design leadership with mentorship and client coordination in a collaborative environment.

Based in Philadelphia with three days on-site, this hybrid role offers opportunities to mentor staff, drive project delivery, and contribute to firm standards while partnering with senior architects and principals.

Qualifications

Bachelor or Master of Architecture degree required.
Registered Architect required.
Experience with healthcare or corporate buildings preferred.
Strong proficiency with Revit and AutoCAD.
Proven mentoring and design leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

Lead projects with Senior Project Architects and Principals.
Design, analyze, document healthcare, academic, or corporate buildings.
Coordinate with disciplines to deliver integrated documents.
Mentor staff and lead components within projects.
Present and support clients and external teams.
Ensure budget adherence.
Lead project with client and contractor.

Skills

Leadership

Team collaboration

Client coordination

Mentoring

Project management

Revit

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Enscape

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Education

Bachelor or Master of Architecture

Registered Architect

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Enscape

Bluebeam

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

At Ballinger, an Architecture Engineering Firm, we are passionate about complex challenges and real-world problem-solving. Design challenges come in all shapes and sizes, and the ones we prefer test us as design professionals. We seek out complex projects with big impact because they require us to ask tough questions, synthesize data, and push past the boundaries of existing answers into the realm of innovative solutions. Ballinger team members thrive on those challenges because our clients do, too: our work for them enables their ambitious endeavors in science and medicine, research and government, manufacturing, and technology. Ballinger welcomes ambition with career development, mentorship, and leadership opportunities. Here ideas will always be more important than hierarchy because they result in buildings as transformative as the missions they serve.

This is a hybrid role based in Philadelphia, PA- on site three (3) days per week.

Role Summary

Your focus as a Project Architect will involve leading projects of varying sizes in a collaborative atmosphere partnering with Senior Project Architects, Senior Project Designers and Principals. In addition to significant client involvement, we expect you will have regular professional interaction with our healthcare, corporate, science and academic teams, and provide employee mentoring to less experienced staff while being mentored by Senior Project Architects.

Responsibilities

Designing, analyzing, detailing, and documenting healthcare academic or corporate buildings
Preparing technical drawings and specifications to ensure that their construction conforms to specifications, codes, standards, and client requirements
Coordinating with both architecture and engineering team members to deliver an integrated set of documents across the discipline
Generate red lines in a documentation set
Accountability for budget adherence
Act as a firm-wide mentor
Advise on Firm Standards (RUG/Technical/ Templates/Specs)
Engage in internal project leadership (lead a component or discipline within a project team)
Engage in external project leadership (lead project with client and contractor)
Present and provide day to day support to client and external project team
Autonomous internal and external leadership of building or discipline delivery
Perform ongoing studies for process improvement
Build on industry network, potentially through trade organizations, local events, speaking or conferences where applicable
Participate & contribute to performance reviews where applicable
Participate in internal committees where applicable

Technical Skills

Ability to take and provide direction within a larger team
Develop design or technical solutions with Project Manager and Principal
Lead large-scale or multiple projects, develop work plans, and project execution strategies with the Project Manager
Self-starter, able to independently generate design solutions and direction to other team members
Interfaces and leads all disciplines during the design/coordination phases.
Lead construction administration-related activities across the team and all disciplines
High level of responsiveness and collaboration with contractors and clients
Demonstration of targeted expertise with a key role in the firm
Demonstration of superior technical skills, dedication, and ownership of work
Proficiency of Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Enscape or other modeling software applications
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite applications
Graphics and visualization skills to effectively communicate design ideas
Attention to detail
Strong organizational and interpersonal skills

Requirements

As a Project Architect with Ballinger, you must possess superb production, analytical, and communication skills and be able to perform well in a design environment.

Additional Requirements For The Project Architect Include

Bachelor or Master of Architecture
Registered Architect required.
Highly versed with preparing full sets of design documents using Revit, Bluebeam
Minimum 10-20 years of experience in building design and documentation in academic and research buildings experience strongly preferred
Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Enscape or other modeling software applications
Superb production, analytical, and communication skills

It is the policy of Ballinger to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race (including hairstyle/texture), religion, color, citizenship, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Ballinger prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.

About Us

Ballinger is one of the oldest continuously practicing architecture and engineering firm in the United States. Founded in l878. We make places for people who make the future. Healers and learners, makers and innovators: they are the people who inspire us, because their work changes lives for the better. For them, a building must be both functional and exceptional, an environment that empowers those who experience it. We believe that a building designed and engineered with insight and intelligence becomes a catalyst for today’s transformative endeavors – and an enabler of tomorrow’s promising futures.

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