Project Architect - Healthcare

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McMillan Pazdan Smith
is an award-winning architecture, interior design, and advisory services firm with eight studios located in the southeast. We pride our selves on strong client relationships and community partnerships. Our projects represent the work of a collaborative group of dedicated design professionals driven by a solitary goal: to deliver a functional solution that inspire collaboration, function, imagination, constructability, and attributes of a well-constructed environmental design.

We are currently seeking a Project Architect to join our Healthcare team

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for finished plans, specifications, and approval of materials and construction documents
• Apply sound and diverse knowledge of architectural principles and practices in a broad array of assignments and related fields
• Act independently regarding architectural methods and complexities
• Use advanced techniques and modify/extend theories, precepts, and practices
• Assist with budget management
• Work directly with client and/or user group to develop schematic design concepts and programming studies
• Observe architectural features of structures in the field
• Provide professional architectural consultation in the planning, design, and coordination of large, complex projects
• Write specifications as assigned
• Conduct code research and analysis and review with various agencies for approval
• Collaborate with engineers, consultants, contractors and/or clients.
• Assume Project Manager role as necessary
• Prepare project proposals, design team budget, schedule, and workforce projections
• Supervise and provide guidance regarding overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts, and policy matters
• Ensure that the project meets environmental, safety, structural, zoning, and aesthetic standards
• Manage and nurture the client relationship
• Supervise design team members as necessary
• Perform construction administration to include facilitation of project communications, maintenance of project records, review and certification of amounts due to contractors, and preparation of change orders
• Provide architectural production support as required
• Produce work involving a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of conventional materials, and difficult coordination requirements
• Review shop drawings, submittals, and respond to RFIs
• Produce construction documents, revisions, and addendums

Required Qualifications

• Professional degree in Architecture from an NAAB-accredited program
• Registered as a licensed architect
• Ability to provide business development for firm within practice expertise area
• 6-8 years combined experience as a design professional and/or architect
• Proficiency with Microsoft Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, and Revit
• Firm grasp of building technology fundamentals
• Thorough knowledge of relevant codes, operations, processes, and trends
• Excellent time management, organizational and written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree of Architecture
• Experience with Newforma Project Center and/or Newforma Project Analyzer
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Bluebeam PDF Revu
• Additional relevant certifications indicating additional expertise such as for construction administration, interior design, LEED/Green Globes/sustainability, etc.
• Experience writing and editing specifications Write and edit specifications as assigned

Position Location - Atlanta

McMillan Pazdan Smith is committed to providing employees with a team environment where we teach each other to improve and reimagine what is possible while creating a shared commitment to earning the trust of our clients and communities. McMillan Pazdan Smith is also committed to providing employees with a comprehensive benefits plan to meet their current and future needs. Benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a PTO plan, an employer-provided life insurance with both long- and short-term disability, health savings account with certain medical plan enrollment, dependent care flexible spending accounts, paid professional membership dues and relevant exam fee reimbursement among other benefits.

Physical Demands and Workplace Environment The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to grasp objects; reach with hands and arms; balance, stop, kneel, or crouch; speak or listen. The employee must occasionally lift and/or carry up to twenty-five pounds.

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