Senior Project Architect | Healthcare

Northern Impact; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multidisciplinary design firm is seeking a talented Healthcare Senior Project Architect to join their San Jose office. This role involves collaborating on complex healthcare projects, ensuring high-quality design and documentation in a dynamic team environment. With a focus on communication and client relations, this position is perfect for an experienced architect ready to make a significant impact in the healthcare sector.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience with large-scale healthcare projects.
• California licensure and LEED accreditation preferred.
• Ability to navigate California's OSHPD regulations.

Responsibilities

• Develop project design and performance strategies.
• Provide technical design input and detailed project documentation.
• Collaborate with consultants to ensure project deliverables are met.

Skills

Strong graphics skills

Communication

Client relations

Technical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture

Master’s degree in architecture

Tools

Revit

3D Max

SketchUp

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Overview

National multidisciplinary design firm is seeking a talented Healthcare Senior Project Architect to join their Sacramento, San Francisco or San Jose office. In this role, you will be an integral team member of the leadership group developing complex healthcare projects alongside the Senior Designer and Project Manager. This role requires excellent time management, communication, client relation and technical skills as you work closely with a Principal or Project Manager and a team of consultants developing design concepts into high quality documents.

The firm has 11 offices all around the world focusing on healthcare, arts and culture, community, corporate, education, and government projects. Recently, the firm won the prestigious American Architecture Award for Museums and Cultural Building, along with IIDA Healthcare Design Award.

Responsibilities

• Develops a thorough understanding of projects’ design philosophy and provides major input in developing a design and building performance strategy and effectively conveys this to assigned team members when appropriate.

• Provides technical design input and support for the development of the entire design concept. Responsible for a project’s technical design effort, subsequent detailed design development, project coordination and quality control efforts during all phases of project work, in close collaboration with Senior Designer.

• Seeks creative and innovative solutions to assigned tasks and develops appropriate research and documents to support these solutions.

• Actively collaborates with and coordinates work of consultants and knowledge resources to ensure the project deliverables are coordinated, integrated and support the design concept and performance goals of the project.

• Contributes to the preparation of design documents and leads the detailed development of construction documents during all project phases, delivering complete, accurate and coordinated project documentation.

• Advances the production of schematic, design development and construction documents drawings and specifications in compliance with project scope, schedule, cost and design intent.

• Maintains awareness of evolving building technology and systems.

• Reviews shop drawings, material samples and CD’s for conformance with design.

• Performs construction administration duties (e.g. RFI’s, RFP’s, change orders, etc.)

• Prepares reports and specifications; reviews completed reports, plans, cost estimates and calculations.

• Executes applicable agency review analysis (accessibility, zoning, life-safety, etc.)

• Establishes architectural budget, task schedule and other components of the project work plan in collaboration with Project Manager.

• Implements meeting objectives, facilitates meetings and provides meeting notes documentation.

• Maintains contact with clients, consultants and contractors during all project phases, participating in marketing, client and owner presentations as required.

Qualifications

Preferred candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, Master’s degree preferred

• California licensure is preferred

• LEED accreditation preferred

• Experience in healthcare projects required

• This position requires 10 + years’ experience including working on large-scale project types

• Ability to work with the regulations established by California’s OSHPD group

• Strong graphics skills are an essential

• Knowledge of Revit, 3D Max, SketchUp and other industry accepted software as well as expertise with project management software and Microsoft Office Suite products is needed

• Ability to work in a hybrid working situation supporting our Northern California offices in person when appropriate

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