Design Principal

The Haskell Company•Salt Lake City, UT

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Design Principal provides corporate leadership for architectural design quality and excellence and serves as an architectural design consultant to projects across all Business Units. The role leads the company’s most challenging architectural design projects, advocates for strong architectural design, and helps develop the design capabilities of architectural staff. For projects, the Design Principal collaborates with project and engineering staff to develop conceptual designs, leads design work sessions and charrettes, contributes designs and presentation materials to proposals, and presents designs to clients and governmental agencies. The role stays involved through design development, construction documents, and construction administration to support the conceptual design vision. It also supervises, recruits, mentors, and develops assigned architectural design staff. The position requires a four-year degree in a related field, at least 15 years of architectural design experience, demonstrated architectural design capability, leadership and management skills, interpersonal and presentation skills, and an architect’s license. The job involves ordinary ambulatory activity and may require standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and handling light-to-medium weights of 10–50 pounds, as well as frequent sitting and use of a keyboard and other equipment.

Requirements

Four-year degree in a related field.
Minimum 15 years of experience in architectural design.
Proven architectural design capabilities.
Leadership and management skills.
Interpersonal and presentation skills.
Licensed architect.

Responsibilities

Represent the company internally and externally in architectural design.
Personally lead the most challenging architectural design projects.
Advocate for architectural design across all Business Units.
Apply architectural design resources appropriately across Business Units to meet corporate priorities.
Select projects and prepare submissions for design awards programs and professional journal publication.
Work with the Project Director, A/E Project Principal, Project Architect, and engineering staff to develop conceptual architectural designs.
Lead project design work sessions and charrettes.
Participate in preparing architectural designs, presentation materials, and graphics for proposals.
Present architectural designs to clients and governmental agencies.
Work with project teams through design development, construction documents, and construction administration to support follow-through on conceptual design.
Maintain awareness of opportunities to enhance architectural design and encourage appropriate design quality on projects.
Supervise assigned architectural design staff and conduct performance reviews.
Recruit, mentor, and support the career development and training of assigned architectural design staff.