About the Role
HOK is a collective of future-forward thinkers and designers dedicated to improving people's lives, serving clients, and healing the planet. This role is responsible for the issuance and content of deliverables, technical content of documents, and coordination of disciplines, including consultants and supervision of staff producing documents.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the overall design intent of the project is incorporated into detailed documentation.
- Monitoring the design process from conceptual phase through construction administration.
- Providing technical resolution and coordination for a defined portion of a project.
- Performing product research and assisting in writing specifications.
- Checking completed reports, plans, estimates, and calculations for accuracy.
- Setting the overall strategy for producing documents and identifying sheets for each stage of work.
- Defining how data will be organized into files and which elements will be incorporated into a Building Information Model (BIM).
- Setting up project team software parameters and managing standards.
- Fostering and maintaining a collaborative professional working relationship with the Project Leadership Team.
- Communicating with other disciplines, vendors, and contractors to ensure incorporation of all information into project requirements.
- Ensuring construction detail documentation conforms to quality assurance, quality control, and best practice standards.
- Supervising the preparation of technical drawings by less senior staff.
- Acting as team leader on certain projects.
- Mentoring and directing the work of less experienced staff.
- Participating in professional development reviews and “Lessons Learned” sessions.
- Taking personal responsibility for fostering a green workplace through sustainable work practices.
- Developing a positive relationship of trust with client leadership.
- Communicating with client representatives to verify design requirements and specifications, progress reviews, and delivery of final presentations.
- Fostering a commitment to external and internal client service.
- Coordinating use and tracking shared electronic documentation and files with project team, clients, and consultants.
- Assisting in planning and conducting work, making minor adaptations and modifications to complete working drawing set(s).
- Meeting with municipal building department and other governing agency officials to coordinate approvals or variances.
- Writing reports and memos to consultants and vendors to issue changes and track resolutions.
- Providing technical support and project communications to the team as required.
- Attending on-site visits, field reviews, and project meetings.
- Preparing and coordinating the review of contractor’s schedules, submission of shop drawings and samples.
- Assisting the Specification Writer in product research, consulting with manufacturers, and evaluating/selecting project-related materials.
- Involvement with specification set-up and drawing coordination, research, and appropriate use of HOK Standards.
- Providing support to all team members for specific market, discipline, or other areas of expertise.
- Participating in team meetings to help resolve project issues, coordination with other disciplines, schedule adherence, and technical issues.
- Participating in review of project costs and budgets, and adherence to schedule.
- Preparing meeting minutes of consultant coordination meetings.
- Preparing 2D and 3D presentation/design drawings and building models for client/project team review.
- Incorporating Integrated Sustainable Design solutions into projects.
- Participating in business development meetings with team leaders to target specified project, client, or market opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture or interior design required
- 10 plus years’ experience preferred
- LEED credential required within 12 months of employment
Skills
- Building Information Model (BIM)
Location
- Remote
- Onsite
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10 plus years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture or interior design
- LEED credential
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(K) savings plans
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Accident insurance
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Parental leave
About the Company
- HOK is a collective of future-forward thinkers and designers who are driven to face the critical challenges of our time.
- We are dedicated to improving people's lives, serving our clients and healing the planet.
- Together, we cultivate a culture of design excellence at the confluence of art and science, blending the power of creative expression with a clear sense of purpose.
Equal Opportunity
- HOK is an EOE, including disability/vets.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
