Senior Project Architect

JCJ Business Corp Inc•Las Vegas, NV

3h•Hybrid

About The Position

JCJ Architecture is a full-service planning, architectural and interior design firm with over 85 years of practice, consistently ranked in ENR’s top 500 design and top 100 Green Building firms. The firm operates with offices in Boston, Hartford, Las Vegas, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, & Tulsa. JCJ Architecture views design as a collaborative process, aiming to balance client goals, functional objectives, and physical context with project scope, constraints, and opportunities. Employee-owners work to create environments that strengthen communities, businesses, and institutions, and help organizations and individuals thrive, covering both commercial and institutional project types. The Senior Project Architect provides daily leadership and mentoring to project teams on all aspects of a project, from design to technical, through various phases. This role involves developing designs and documents from schematic through construction phases, adhering to JCJ and industry standards, often serving as the Document Team Leader.

Requirements

Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) or Master of Architecture (MArch) degree.
10+ years’ experience in architecture with supervisory management experience.
Licensed Architect, Professional Registration required.
Advanced Computer and Information Management Skills (Revit).

Responsibilities

Assumes some project management responsibilities for assigned projects inclusive of client and consultant meetings and communications.
Coordinates a project from initial design through construction administration.
Develops project documentation requirements as a result of research, discussions with Project Manager, PIC, Lead Designer and client interviews.
Develops solutions to client architectural requirements, needs and complexities.
Collaborates with the design team to develop the overall project design to address the client’s needs inclusive of budget, schedule and vision.
Provides technical knowledge and insight on possible material and design choices that may be beneficial in design or cost to overall project.
Oversees the assembly of necessary technical documentation (drawings and specifications), in accordance with JCJ standards, for all project phases.
Oversees the compilation of the project product manual which records design decisions.
As part of a project team, leads a team of technical staff to develop project technical documentation requirements and solutions for assigned projects.
Interfaces with consultants to complete the coordination of the documentation phases of the project in a timely manner.
Coordinates structural, electrical and mechanical drawings and specifications with architectural drawings and specs.
Meets with engineers as necessary and articulates the integrations of the architecture and the engineering with the full A/E team, including specifications group.
Prepares code analysis for assigned projects, reviews documents for compliance with all applicable Federal, State and Local laws, ordinances, regulations, statutory and documentation requirements.
Performs construction administration tasks including shop drawing review, responses to RFIs, site visits, and document modifications, as required, on assigned projects.
Responsible for setting project documentation requirements.
Define and describe document set to Project Team leaders in an appropriate manner to facilitate development of milestone schedule for contract documents.
Responsible to complete code analysis and verify compliance of documents.
Responsible to meet documentation budget.
Develop work plan for document team and delegate work between assigned staff.
Monitor documentation efforts to meet allocated JCJ hours/budget in project plan.
Responsible for completing documentation within the project schedule.
Provide documentation milestones for incorporation into overall project schedule.
Responsible to lead and direct documentation team.
Responsible to direct and monitor efforts of both JCJ document team members and consultant team members to achieve milestones and quality levels per project plan.
Report weekly progress to Project Manager.
Identify submittals for review during CA.
Responsible to approve elements that diverge from contract documents during CA.
Assist in document modifications required during CA.
Responsible for quality of drawings and specs.
Responsible for consultant coordination in documentation.
Responsible to execute details consistent with design direction and intent.
Responsible for incorporating QA review comments.
Responsible to assemble record documents and input final project space allocations into Project Journal at project completion.
Assists in Quality Control reviews.
Understands how to use local and state building codes.
Notifies team of possible conflicts.
Supports new business development opportunities and participates in the proposal/interview process as needed.
Assists in the development and presentation of materials, drawings, models in support of the process.
Assume special projects and duties as assigned or requested.