Senior Rail and Transit Architect

Your role

Business & Project Leadership

• Ability to provide architectural team leadership, interact with senior management and play a decisive role in project pursuits.
• Supervises project delivery and senior technical professionals and provides direction on employee development activities and shared goals throughout the technical discipline.
• Assists with the evaluation of and identifies current and future staffing availability based on technical and budgetary requirements of future workload and manpower projections.
• Project Production and Management: Ensure appropriate staff allocation to projects in consideration of project schedules, budgets, key milestone dates and work products.
• Marketing and Client Maintenance: Participates in pursuing new project opportunities for the firm by maintaining contacts with current and prospective clients.
• Contribution to prepositioning efforts, teaming arrangement, staffing plans and scope, schedule and fee preparation in the pursuit of new opportunities.
• Possess an Entrepreneurial spirit and a desire for career advancement.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of financial performance, metrics and risk management.

Design & Technical Leadership

• Ability to Sign and Seal design documents.
• Ability to present oneself professionally to clients. Ability to routinely interface with clients and keep clients properly informed.
• Work collaboratively with the Rail and Transit Market leadership in the presentation of our technical skills to perspective clients.
• Ability to perform programming, planning and other conceptual design activities.
• Develop designs and sketches to be input into Revit-based construction documents as well as direct a project team to do the same.
• Demonstrated past ability to lead production of project documents through all stages of design and construction.
• Ability to mentor junior staff and lead a project team to produce a complete set of construction documents.
• Ability to perform QC review for design & red-line documents for production staff in BlueBeam or using another digital format.
• Ability to coordinate with sub-consultants and other disciplines and mentor junior staff to do the same.
• Ability to create organized Exhibits in BlueBeam and PowerPoint for client and team review.
• Ability to direct & perform (if required) site observation and field work including site investigations, existing facility inventory and field measured documentation.
• Provide status reports of progress on architectural documents.
• Communicate regularly with the team and stay within the hours budgeted for tasks assigned. Maintains accountability of financial performance.
• Advanced knowledge of local building codes, FEDERAL and STATE compliance requirements and experience with MTA code reviews processes and achieve a consensus.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary buildings environment while leading the coordination of disciplines including but not limited to: MEP, Structural, Civil, Environmental, Planning, Code, Interiors, Passenger experience, Cost Estimating, etc.…
• Ability to consult product manufacturers, vendors and contractors, to evaluate, and obtain accurate constructability, cost information and select materials, equipment specification and inspection of architectural features in the field.
• Familiarity with Alternative Delivery (Design Build, Progressive Desing Build, CMAR, etc) methods
• Ability to effectively work on multiple projects or issues simultaneously.
• Ability to analyze information and propose effective solutions on own initiative.
• An understanding of the mechanics 3D models in BIM and other digital formats. (The intent is not to perform production task, just provide oversight.)
• Performs such other duties as the Supervisor determine necessary to support the Architecture Practice.