Senior Architect - Quinn Evans
Ann Arbor, MI
About the Job
About Quinn Evans
Quinn Evans is a nationally recognized architecture and design firm and recipient of the American Institute of Architects' 2024 Firm Award. Our process is informed by the past to address today's complex challenges and design our shared future. We are technical experts, caretakers, conveners, and listeners. We identify the solutions that best serve the community and the long-term life of a place. We bring expertise in cultural and sustainable stewardship to every aspect of our practice and projects. Our projects encompass a variety of project types including public sites, museums, and visitor centers, civic, performing arts, educational, and hospitality, to multi-family housing.
Team building is critical to our practice. Together, we create better work and more fulfilling professional lives. We do this through a culture that fosters constructive engagement leveraging a diversity of staff, practice, client communities, and points of view.
Be a part of a collaborative and diverse team that is designing ways for places and people to thrive today and tomorrow. Quinn Evans is one of the largest women-owned design practices in the country. We take pride in our diverse team and workplace culture. We emphasize leadership, innovation, teamwork, and professional development. We offer competitive compensation, a supportive hybrid work environment, and opportunity to make a difference through work on unique and impactful projects.
We contribute to and advance our profession through sponsorship and team member leadership positions. This includes the American Institute of Architects, Association for Preservation Technology, membership in the President's Circle of the National Organization for Minority Architects (NOMA) and as a signatory of the 1.5°C COP26 Communiqué.
Job Description
We are seeking a full-time Project Architect with 8 to 12 years of experience leading a variety of projects across cultural, learning, and heritage practice areas involving both new construction and adaptive use renovations. The ideal candidate possesses excellent communication, design, technical, and organizational skills and is experienced in all phases of design and construction. The position will require working closely with project team members and principals to successfully produce articulate and technically strong project documents to execute quality projects.
Responsibilities
- Collaboratively implement design and building performance strategies to align with project design philosophies; actively participate in project team meetings
- Provide design and technical development, project coordination, and quality control for all aspects of a project
- Conduct research to support creative and innovative solutions to project challenges
- Collaborate with and coordinate work from consultants to ensure integrated project documents that support project design and performance goals
- Contribute to the preparation of quality design documents including detailed construction documents that result in complete submissions for all phases of a project and are compliant with design intent and project scope, schedule, and cost requirements
- Perform construction administration duties such as review of shop drawings, product data, and material samples for conformance with design intent, response to RFIs, and review of pay applications and change orders
- Keep informed of evolving building technology, materials and products, and sustainable strategies
- Maintain contact with clients, consultants, and contractors during all project phases and participate in marketing, client and owner presentations as required
- Provide mentorship and guidance to other design and intern staff
Qualifications
- Registered Architect Professional degree in Architecture with a minimum of 8 years of experience
- Experience with Housing/Mixed Use projects is preferred
- Excellent communication skills in design, graphics, and presentation
- Demonstrated leadership and experience working in project team environments
- Experience participating and presenting in client meetings and sub-consultant coordination
- Proficient with Revit; experience with Newforma and MS Teams a plus
- Experience in preparing construction documents and construction administration
- Strong knowledge of building codes and regulations
- LEED credentials are a plus
Quinn Evans is an equal opportunity employer, offering employment to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation/gender status, Veteran's status, and disability. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage women and diverse applicants to apply.
