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About the Role
The Project Architect partners with the Project Manager to lead the architectural team and deliver projects successfully from design through documentation. They carry design intent through the project, provide deeper technical expertise, and lead the team in meeting project milestones and quality expectations. The role is primarily focused on directing, coordinating, and mentoring the architecture team, while providing technical leadership and helping resolve complex project challenges.
Responsibilities
- Supervise, coordinate, plan and review the work of 4-8 staff members, including mentoring.
- Develop architectural solutions using the building code and provide advantageous code interpretations.
- Support projects by interacting and negotiating with jurisdictions to obtain building permits.
- Interact with clients to achieve project goals and propose innovative solutions.
- Understand and adhere to project contract requirements.
- Provide strong leadership for assigned projects and firm-wide support to other project architects and teams.
- Communicate project deadlines, phase completion, staffing needs, and changes to the project manager promptly, including team morale and client perception.
- Perform QA/QC.
- Reinforce project metrics such as utilization, technical standards adherence, efficiency improvement efforts, and project profitability.
- Perform project management duties such as work plan and schedule development for larger project phases or entire small projects.
- Stay familiar with trends in the A/E/C industry.
- Participate in the interview process for hiring new staff.
- Participate/lead in the management review of subordinate staff.
- Provide constructive feedback for continuous improvement.
- Develop specialized knowledge through interest and/or engagement in industry groups.
- Support the marketing and business development group.
- Model the firm’s values and core commitments, ensuring alignment with internal expectations for professionalism, collaboration, and ethical behavior.
- Respect and reinforce established firm policies and processes.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Requires a Bachelor or Master’s degree from an accredited program.
- Licensed Architect is required.
- Generally have 8+ years of experience.
- Proficiency in Autodesk Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam, MS Office Suite required.
- LEED AP Preferred.
- Possesses intermediate to advanced knowledge of the OSSC/ ADAAG and the ability to achieve the intent of the code through variances and appeals.
- Possesses knowledge of other codes such as OMSC, OFC, NFPA, OSHA, FHA, ANSI, City of Portland, etc. and the USGBC LEED rating system and score card.
- Knowledge of Sketchup, SpecLink, Smartsheet, and Deltek preferred.
- Advanced ability to communicate through verbal, written and graphic communication formats.
- Advanced ability to determine the right tool for the task.
- Advanced ability to prioritize and evaluate multiple important tasks.
- Advanced critical thinking to identify strengths, weaknesses or alternate solutions to a problem independently.
- Advanced professional judgment and decision-making processes to determine the most appropriate course of action.
- Established leadership skills that motivate and guide teams and projects to desired outcomes.
- Established skills necessary to resolve conflicts within project teams.
- Established ability to negotiate with and/or advocate for team members, consultants, clients, jurisdictions for the benefit of SERA and the project.
Skills
- Autodesk Revit
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Bluebeam
- MS Office Suite
- OSSC/ ADAAG
- OMSC
- OFC
- NFPA
- OSHA
- FHA
- ANSI
- City of Portland codes
- USGBC LEED rating system
- Sketchup
- SpecLink
- Smartsheet
- Deltek
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Graphic communication
- Prioritization
- Critical thinking
- Professional judgment
- Decision-making
- Leadership
- Conflict resolution
- Negotiation
- Advocacy
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor or Master’s degree
- Licensed Architect
Equal Opportunity
- SERA Architects Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.