About the Role
This role involves joining the Transit Group practice to win, design, and mentor a team of architects on Transit projects. It offers the opportunity to shape the design of large-scale transit facilities with local, national, and international work.
Responsibilities
- Grow the transit practice in the region with Practice Group Manager and Leaders.
- Leverage existing experience and relationships to grow the market.
- Develop and maintain internal organizational relationships.
- Lead and facilitate cross-sector, discipline, and inter-office collaboration.
- Develop and grow client relationships in Urban Mixed-Use development, high-rise residential, hospitality, and commercial office sectors.
- Develop and maintain key industry contacts.
- Lead and participate in business development pursuits, including proposal writing and review.
- Manage projects, including developing cost proposals, work breakdown structures, and monitoring project progress.
- Create and update risk management plans.
- Perform QA/QC on projects and serve as Architect of Record (AOR) across the United States.
- Lead client relationships and project presentations.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in the Living Practice Group.
- Provide high-level guidance to achieve trusted partner status with clients.
- Provide hands-on involvement and leadership in project design, coordination, preparation, and document delivery.
- Motivate, mentor, and delegate work to team members.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience managing multi-disciplinary teams, serving as client liaison, and solving complex challenges.
- 5+ years of recent and relevant Rail and Bus facility experience.
- Architectural Degree from a NAAB accredited program.
- Licensed Architect with current registration.
- Minimum 20 years experience.
- NCARB file or eligibility to secure one within 45 days of hire.
- Minimum 12 years of experience with strategic thinking and interest in business and practice issues.
- Existing relationships in mixed-use residential, commercial, hospitality, and retail private sectors.
- Experience with large, complex projects within a multi-disciplinary practice.
- Strategic thinking leadership skills, connecting business with practice.
- Comprehensive understanding of project coordination and multi-disciplinary requirements under demanding deadlines.
- Demonstrated creativity, passion, and interest in design.
Skills
- Managing multi-disciplinary teams
- Client liaison
- Solving complex challenges with creative solutions
- Strategic thinking
- Leadership
- Project coordination
- Business development
- Proposal writing
- Risk management
- QA/QC
- Project design
- Mentoring
Location
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
Experience Level
- 15+ years of experience
- 5+ years of recent and relevant Rail and Bus facility experience
- Minimum 20 years experience
- Minimum 12 years of experience
Education Level
- Architectural Degree from a NAAB accredited program
- Masters’ degree is preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000 - $230,000
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- EAP
- 401K
- STD
- LTD
- AD&D
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Reward & recognition program
- Wellbeing benefits
- Adoption assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Nine paid holidays
- 15 days PTO that accrue per year
About the Company
- Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
- We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
- We achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best.
- We believe everyone's contribution matters.
- We are pioneering a skills-based approach to career pathing and maximizing impact.
- Employees will do meaningful work, delivering sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.
- Make your mark on your career, colleagues, clients, life, and the world.
- Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Equal Opportunity
- We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day.
- Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
