Design Architect

Design Architect

Requirements

• Registered Architect.
• 8+ years of professional experience in mission critical building design, construction and/or operations.
• Experience with industry standards, building codes and safety standards.
• Experience with Office, Revit/BIM, Bluebeam, Autodesk, or similar design software applications.
• Knowledge depth (SME) of building systems design and architectural details for steel, concrete, tilt-up and insulated metal panel structures.
• Significant experience in geotechnical/soils design, concrete and steel structural design, sustainable design, interior/exterior finish systems, and design of physical security systems.
• Knowledge of Fire Protection/Fire Alarm systems such as Early Warning/Detection Systems.
• Knowledge of Environmental, Health and Safety programs.
• Proven analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Project Management Experience.
• Effective presentation and communication to peers, stakeholders and leadership.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Own all aspects of building design from concept, requirements to commissioning
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams, contractors, and regulatory agencies to resolve discipline related issues involving safety, quality, cost, schedule, proposed changes, value engineering proposals, submittals, requests for information and other design related issues.
• Ensure design project deliverables such as drawing sets, requests for information, submittals, studies, audits, calculations and reports meet requirements.
• Drive and hold teams accountable for design deliverables and engage on emerging requirements to ensure schedule requirements are met. Advise on opportunities to compress schedules wherever possible.
• Proactively anticipate and mitigate potential quality issues. Monitor and resolve design quality issues to ensure facility requirements are met.
• In collaboration with stakeholders, engage in deliberate, forward thinking to identify and mitigate risks.
• Participate in onsite testing and commissioning and other quality checks throughout the project life cycle to ensure proper installation and commissioning of systems and integration with other critical systems.
• Create, review and comment on design documents, specifications, and calculations.
• Provide technical expertise and oversight to ensure the design and construction meet local and NRC requirements and industry standards for nuclear facilities.
• Collaborate with other technical disciplines as required to ensure fully functioning, integrated systems.
• Provide deliberate and thoughtful development of lessons learned for design improvements of future products. Study and document lessons learned from similar project builds in the nuclear industry.
• Manage multi-disciplinary work, occasionally non-architectural related, as needed to support the project and General Matter business objectives.
• Close collaboration and engagement with the Quality Team, with focus on area walk downs, critical benchmarks, systems integration and operation, issue resolution, commissioning review and implementation, providing technical support and guidance on Design related matters.
• Support Facilities Engineering and Operations Team on knowledge sharing, technical guidance and system operation of Design throughout the project schedule.
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Evidence of exceptional ability (prior projects, portfolio of work, completed products, etc).
• Experience in a fast-paced engineering environment or a highly technical role requiring a resourceful, entrepreneurial approach to complete tasks within tight timeframes or budget constraints.
• Experience on mission critical facilities.
• Experience on large scale construction projects.
• Experience in data center or mission critical design and construction support.
• LEED Accreditation.
• Experience with construction and cost estimating processes.
• Experience with Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), Revit, Visio, Oracle P6, Google suite, and Bluebeam software.
• Experience with local/state code compliance.