Project Architect - Workplace

Your Opportunity

Join our Workplace Buildings practice in the downtown Los Angeles office, that provides Architecture, Project Management, Buildings Engineering, and Workplace Design services. We have a long history and deep commitment to our clients including both private, public and institutional sector work.

We are seeking a Project Architect to join our integrated buildings practice. An ideal candidate would be an architect with an interest in project management. 

As a contributor on our professional team, you will work collaboratively with the design team(s) to assist clients through all phases of design, from planning to construction administration. You will also work with peer project architects, project managers and principals overseeing the scope, schedule, and budget of community impactful design projects. 

Your experience ensures that you are familiar with all phases of project development and capable of leading a team through production of design and contract documents. You will also lead the development of integrated technical design proposals, develop fee schedules, prepare a variety of output/drawings throughout the project, and collaborate with team members to contribute to the final deliverables.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead project coordination and meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors. 
• Engage in the development of a design through sketches, digital models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats. 
• Manage team and process creating contract documents. 
• Utilize BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of buildings and their components. 
• Participate in design critiques, pin-ups, and in-person charrette sessions with the client.
• Apply accessibility codes, applicable building codes, and life-safety codes to a wide variety of project scopes and complexity.
• Prepare and revise documentation in various architectural phases including programming/planning, site plans, floor plans, building elevations, building sections, details. 
• Participate in bidding and negotiation phase and prepare addenda. 
• Review shop drawings and submittals, respond to RFIs, prepare site observation reports, and other contract administration tasks. 
• Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and basic cost estimating. 
• Assist in the preparation of the project specifications. 
• Coordination of specs with construction documents. 
• Participate in constructability reviews. 
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects.
• Report-writing for project deliverables, including Basis-of-Design reports and technical memos.
• Responsible for varied size projects, from master service agreement (on-calls) to medium and large projects of high complexity. 
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Additional responsibilities include assisting with staffing plans, and other marketing & business development opportunities.
• Attendance at project on-site meetings and construction progress reviews.
• Short-term travel – primarily within CA and the west coast – may also be necessary for project work.