Senior Architectural Project Lead

Kaas Wilson Architects LLC; BLOOMINGTON (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaas Wilson Architects LLC in Bloomington, MN seeks an experienced Project Architect/Team Lead to oversee design, delivery, and coordination of multiple projects through all phases, ensuring budgets, schedules, and client communications are met.

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience required; Master’s preferred with licensure. You will mentor staff, manage teams, and collaborate with clients and consultants to ensure success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of eight years of relevant experience.
• Active board licensure strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify budget, consultants, schedule for completion, fees, and costs; prepare proposals and contracts.
• Coordinate with clients, governing authorities, consultants, contractors, and other disciplines to ensure effective cross-team communication.
• Collaborate with the Principal in charge to manage workloads to meet project requirements and maximize staff utilization.
• Manage project priorities and staff resources to meet project milestones and profitability.
• Ensure projects are billed at regular intervals.
• Mentor and coach team – teach specific skills, explain decision-making, and help with prioritization of tasks; provide encouragement to support team morale.
• Understand staff’s skill set – recognize areas of weakness and assist in growth, acknowledge areas of strength and motivate to maximum potential.
• Encourage growth towards licensure – monitor and support AXP hours (if licensed).
• Hone staff’s individual skills and hold them accountable for work and deadlines.
• Utilize scheduling to grow each employee's skill set and create well-rounded team members.
• Maintain honest, but professional dialogue with team members, giving constructive feedback regularly.
• Coordinate all team efforts, both administrative and technical, to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective execution of assigned projects.
• Provide complete and timely communication of project information to and from clients and project team.
• Provide on-going communication through team meetings/minutes to the project team through effective use of company provided tools & templates.
• Serve as the primary client liaison to bring the fee proposal, contract, schedule, budgets, and scope of work to completion and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Keeps clients apprised of project progress on a regular basis. Also notifies the client and design team of project changes or other actions taking place on the assigned project.
• Initiate and maintain contact with other key project individuals for clarification, coordination, and negotiation of critical issues.
• Solve complex building code, architectural design and construction problems to serve the client’s project and inform the client of any issues that deviate from the project goals and/or that impact the project budget and timeline.
• Understand structural and site/civil engineering trades and the impact that these trades have on the architectural design concept.
• Determine the extent of the construction detailing required for various elements of a project and ensure constructability, code compliance, affordability, and aesthetics.
• Understand modern architectural / construction means and methods; and be able to fully detail these systems.
• Direct consulting teams in the early stages of design and be involved in the election of structural and MEP systems and assemblies - coordinate these consultant trades through the Construction Document phase.
• Schedule quality control reviews and coordinate all project documentation.
• Actively work with Principals/leadership to pursue both new projects and expand the scope of existing projects.

Skills

Mentorship

Multitasking

Organization & communication

Client-facing

Revit

Bluebeam

Microsoft Office

Google Workspace

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Revit

Bluebeam

Microsoft Office

Google Workspace

Job description

Kaas Wilson Architects LLC in Bloomington, MN seeks an experienced Project Architect/Team Lead to oversee design, delivery, and coordination of multiple projects through all phases, ensuring budgets, schedules, and client communications are met.

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience required; Master’s preferred with licensure. You will mentor staff, manage teams, and collaborate with clients and consultants to ensure success.