Architecture - Transportation

HOK•Boston, MA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves advocating for and upholding the design intent of stations, transit facilities, and urban infrastructure, ensuring seamless translation into coordinated, high-quality construction documentation. The position requires leadership in planning work, developing solutions to technical and design detail problems, and managing project budgets and schedules. The architect will supervise the preparation of technical drawings, create and present client presentations, and ensure adherence to QA/QC and HOK Best Practice standards. A key aspect is the incorporation of Integrated Sustainable Design solutions and mentoring less experienced staff. The role also involves fostering collaborative relationships within the Project Leadership Team and ensuring the overall strategy for producing documents and organizing data, including BIM, is followed. The architect will also be responsible for client interface, communicating with client representatives to verify design requirements, progress reviews, and final presentation delivery. Teamwork is essential, involving the analysis and development of architectural documents, technical resolution and coordination, and developing solutions to design problems. This includes attending on-site visits, coordinating with other disciplines, vendors, and contractors, performing product research, and assisting with material selection and system research. The role requires communication with project managers, clients, public agencies, consultants, and contractors to incorporate engineering systems, respond to requests for information, and obtain approvals. Writing reports and memos, reviewing plans and estimates, and participating in team meetings to resolve project issues, ensure schedule adherence, and address technical challenges are also key responsibilities. The architect will apply proper QA/QC methods, provide support to team members, and may assist with construction administration document management and defining project work plans.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in architecture or equivalent in education or experience required.
5 plus years’ experience.
Licensed Architect with current registration in your region required, if licensure is offered in your region.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
NCARB registration preferred.
LEED accreditation or Green Associate preferred.
Prior experience in large-scale transportation or infrastructure projects preferred.

Responsibilities

Advocates for and upholds the design intent of stations, transit facilities, and urban infrastructure, ensuring seamless translation into coordinated, high-quality construction documentation.
Leads team in planning work and developing solutions to technical and design detail problems.
Responsible for establishing, maintaining and adherence to project budget and schedule.
Supervises preparation of technical drawings by other less senior level architects or professionals.
Prepares client presentations and presents design concepts and drawings.
Ensures that construction detail documentation conforms to QA/QC and HOK Best Practice standards.
Incorporates Integrated Sustainable Design solutions into projects.
Mentors and directs the work of less experienced staff, may participate in professional development; reviews and “Lessons Learned” sessions.
Fosters and maintains a collaborative professional working relationship with the Project Leadership Team.
Assures the overall strategy for producing documents and organizing data will be followed. This includes incorporating elements in a Building Information Model (BIM) or other 3D model.
Assures HOK document standards are met and archives documents appropriately.
Sets up project team software parameters and manages standards.
Takes personal responsibility for fostering a green workplace through sustainable work practices.
Communicates with client representatives to verify design requirements and specifications, progress reviews and delivery of final presentation.
Analyzes and develops approaches to the creation and modification of architectural documents, elevations, sections, details, specifications, etc. ensuring the incorporation of design intent.
Responsible for technical resolution and coordination for a defined portion of a project.
Develops solutions to design problems.
Corrects and updates, making minor adaptations and modifications, to complete working design documents.
Attends on-site visits, field reviews and project meetings and documents appropriately.
Prepares, coordinates and reviews the schedules, submission of shop drawings and samples.
Responsible for communication with other disciplines, vendors, and contractors to ensure incorporation of all information into project requirements and provide support as necessary.
Performs product research; assists project designers with material selection and system research.
Coordinates with project managers, clients, public agencies, consultants and contractors to incorporate engineering systems, respond to requests for information, clarifications, and modifications, and obtain approvals, negotiations and adjusting scope of services.
Writes reports and memos to consultants and vendors to issue changes and track resolutions.
Reviews completed reports, plans, estimates and calculations for coordination.
Participates in team meetings to help resolve project issues, coordination with other disciplines, schedule adherence, and technical issues.
Participates in project reviews regarding project costs, budgets and adherence to schedule.
Communicates in a clear, concise, and professional manner at all times, both verbally and in writing and will have regular interface with clients.
Applies proper QA/QC methods throughout project. May lead this effort.
Provides support to all team members for specific market, discipline, or other area of expertise.
May provide assistance in connection with expertise in particular building types, component, material, element, or building code.
May assist team in construction administration document management.
May assist Project Manager with defining project work plans.
Prepares meeting minutes for consultant coordination meetings.