Senior Project Architect, Healthcare Architecture

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

You will support all aspects of the project process from validation/pre-design through construction administration and close-out within Acute, Sub-Acute and Outpatient Healthcare projects. Coordination with consultants, contractors, and Owners can be a part of your weekly activities to manage projects. You may be required to support multiple projects at any time, within various phases of design and construction. This position requires an onsite presence as needed in a co-location setting with the Project Team thru the design and construction phases.

This is a pipeline position. Please expect a delay in communication from the hiring team as we are looking to hire for this position in early 2023.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for projects of large and medium complexity/size.
• Inspire creativity, critical thought, and design excellence both internally and externally.
• Conceptualize a building design from both a functional and aesthetic perspective in concert with a client’s requirements, budget, and program.
• Develop a design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats to express the design intent and communicate to project team, client, and building user groups.
• Utilize BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of buildings and their components.
• Participate in design critiques and constructability reviews.
• Present the design with the Project Manager and Project Designer to stakeholders during early project phases. Develops building design in accordance with cost parameters.
• Develop space planning, block planning, and adjacency diagrams in coordination with building program.
• Evaluate and select building systems and materials.
• Coordinate building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent.
• Implement sustainable design principles into the design and environment.
• Analyze site incorporating geotechnical, hydrological, environmental, social, economic and contextual conditions.
• Participate in development of the program and other pre-design efforts.
• Ensure the design intent is maintained through documentation and construction.
• Responsible for leading others in project team setting and design critiques and pin-ups.
• Implement Life Safety strategies for healthcare and related occupancies.
• Knowledge of Lean tools and on-site big room experience is a plus.