Project Architect OR Senior Project Architect (Healthcare Market)

What You'd Be Doing

• Leading design solutions, coordination, and production through all project phases, in an iterative, collaborative process tied to each project's success metrics.
• Building a strong project team alongside your Project Manager and helping everyone do their best work through thoughtful task assignment and support for their growth.
• Leading collaboration with healthcare clients, facilities teams, and clinical users, keeping feedback flowing clearly between them and our internal team.
• Owning all technical aspects of the project, including code review and resolving special code conditions under CBC/Title 24, FGI Guidelines, and NFPA.
• Leading communication with HCAI and other local AHJs, including plan review submittals and comments.
• Managing collaboration with consultants and contractors for the best design outcomes, and leading coordination with our specs team.
• Leading design and validation of building envelope systems.
• Directing a thorough, on-time QA/QC process, and being accountable for a complete, quality set of architectural documents that meets contract requirements.
• Leading construction administration with other project leaders and on-site staff, including site observations and verifications.
• Spotting potential risks early and raising them with your Project Manager and Project Executive.
• Helping with pursuits by preparing and reviewing proposal and interview content and joining client interviews.
• Bringing regenerative thinking to the design and performance of the built, social, and natural environments.
• Keeping responsible control over technical submissions when signing and sealing documents.
• Using MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam, and Revit/BIM 360 day to day, and getting familiar with Rhino, Enscape, and Lumion.

Project Architect or Senior Project Architect?

As a Project Architect, you'll lead small to medium-scale healthcare projects and manage small teams with a mix of experience levels.

As a Senior Project Architect, you'll lead large, complex healthcare projects, with extra focus on the early design phases. You'll also:

• Manage multiple project leaders and work alongside other senior leaders to deliver creative, technically sound, holistic solutions.
• Mentor design staff through project delivery and client relationships.
• Help lead pursuits, not just support them.
• Help lead internal programs that improve design best practices across the firm.
• Shape architectural detailing and documentation standards firm-wide.

What We Look For

• Project Architect: 5+ years of architectural experience. Senior Project Architect: 10+ years, including leading large, complex projects.
• Healthcare project experience required (e.g., acute care hospitals, ambulatory and outpatient facilities, medical office buildings, renovations in occupied facilities).
• Recent HCAI/OSHPD experience required, including OSHPD 1 (hospital) and/or OSHPD 3 (clinic) projects.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in architecture.
• Architectural licensure preferred; strongly preferred at the Senior level.
• Strong working knowledge of CBC/Title 24, FGI Guidelines, NFPA, and accessibility codes.
• Advanced Revit skills and a solid grasp of how construction documents and envelope systems come together.
• Experience coordinating multi-discipline consultant teams and leading construction administration.
• A clear communicator who's comfortable with clients, agencies, and contractors.
• A collaborative, team-first mindset and genuine curiosity about doing good work.