Project Architect II - Lifestyle

Progressive Companies; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Award-winning wellness program

Hybrid work schedule

Summer hours

Profit-sharing

Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)

Job summary

Progressive Companies seeks a Project Architect II to lead technical design components of complex multifamily and mixed-use projects. You will translate design intent into coordinated documentation and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to meet client goals, codes, and sustainability standards.

You will guide junior staff, oversee QA/QC, and participate in planning, design, and coordination to ensure high-quality deliverables and compliant solutions.

Qualifications

• Produce accurate, code-compliant project deliverables and documentation.
• Coordinate specifications and drawings across deliverables with strong attention to QA/QC.
• Mentor junior staff and contribute to team development.
• Lead cross-disciplinary coordination to ensure project goals are met.

Responsibilities

• Lead key technical design components of complex architectural projects.
• Translate design intent into coordinated documentation using BIM and other tools.
• Ensure alignment with client goals, codes, and sustainability standards.
• Support planning, design, and coordination of multifamily and mixed-use projects.

Skills

Revit proficiency

Code compliance

Documentation

Mentoring

Team coordination

Job description

As a Project Architect II, you will lead key technical design components of complex architectural projects while ensuring alignment with client goals, codes, and sustainability standards. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate design intent into coordinated, high-quality documentation. This role offers the chance to provide professional architectural consultation in the planning, design, and coordination of complex multifamily & mixed use projects.

Performance Objectives

• Produce accurate, code-compliant project deliverables. Develop architectural models, contract documents, and specifications for small-to-moderate complexity projects, integrating codes, sustainability principles, and material standards, while consistently upholding Performance-Based Design intent throughout project documentation.
• Lead coordination between specifications and drawings. Take the lead on aligning project specifications with architectural drawings across all deliverables, applying strong proficiency in Revit to produce precise documentation that supports project goals.
• Manage due diligence and cross-team coordination with autonomy. Independently document existing conditions, prepare plan review submissions, and organize and transfer project files, while coordinating technical designs with internal teams, consultants, and engineers and contributing informed input to project fee and scheduling discussions.
• Lead reviews and resolve compliance issues to protect quality and schedule. Lead reviews of submittals, drawings, estimates, and calculations for accuracy and compliance; resolve construction-phase issues during site visits and code-related issues with authorities having jurisdiction (AHJ), and perform thorough self-checks so every deliverable meets QA/QC standards.
• Mentor junior staff and strengthen team practices. Actively mentor junior architects, sharing technical knowledge and fostering skill development to build a stronger team and process-improvement feedback.

People Matter

Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.

Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more.

As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.

The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.

Sustainable and Inclusive

We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.

Employee Owned

We act like owners- because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.

Culture of Excellence

The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration.

• award-winning wellness program
• hybrid work schedule
• summer hours
• profit-sharing
• employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)

Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.