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Posted: 16-Feb-23
Location: Bethesda, MD
Type: Full Time
Salary: 80,000
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Salary Details:
Preferred Education:
SGA is a boutique architecture firm based in Bethesda, Maryland. Our practice focus is on multifamily buildings, typically within one mile of Metrorail stations in the Washington, DC region. If you have a passion for the built environment, want to see your work become reality, and enjoy leading a team to a successful project completion, we'd love to hear from you!
Learn more here: www.sgacos.com
Prerequisites for Consideration
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as either a citizen of the US, non-citizen national, lawful permanent resident, or a resident alien otherwise authorized to work in the US. Applicants here on temporary visas will not be considered, and SGA is not currently offering H1B visa sponsorship. All applicants must provide a cover letter, resume, and select examples of your work with your submission (may be submitted electronically or as a link to your on-line portfolio). NO PHONE CALLS OR WALK-INS.
Responsibilities of the Position
- Lead the multifamily building design group by overseeing 1 to 4 projects at a time.
- Assemble the project team for each project, and delegate responsibilities and tasks to team members.
- Create and monitor the project schedules for the projects under your responsibility, determining the critical path to completion, and ensuring the project stays on track to be completed on time and on budget.
- Provide oversight and support to the team members (internal and external) working on each project under your responsibility.
- Liaise with the client, owner, internal team members, consultants, government officials and general public through all phases of the project.
- Present the project, represent the firm, and represent the project owner as required at public meetings and official hearings.
- Produce construction documents independently and in conjunction with the team through each state of the design process.
- Review/red-line drawings, and implement a comprehensive QA/QC plan to be applied to all submissions.
- Work closely with reviewers and permitting agencies to ensure projects progress through entitlement and permitting efficiently.
What we’re looking for in you:
You are a licensed architect with 7-10 years’ of experience, a significant portion having been in multifamily building design. You are an expert user of both Revit and AutoCAD, and are willing to mentor junior team members in the use of Revit and BIM, as well as multi-family building design concepts in general. You have worked effectively on a team producing multi-family building construction documents and enjoy collaborating with your colleagues throughout the process from initial design conception through permitting and construction administration. You have significant construction administration experience on multifamily buildings. You are excited to lead a team of project designers, ranging from entry level to senior, as well as outside consultants.
What you get from us:
- A small diverse team of colleagues for collaboration and project support.
- A competitive salary commensurate with experience.
- Paid transit fare or parking benefit.
- Free mobile phone plan coverage under company account, or reimbursement allowance toward individual plan of your choice.
- Financial assistance with professional license renewal, training, certifications, and memberships.
- Casual work environment, birthday and holiday team celebrations, and a convenient office location near Metro.
- 100% Employer-paid medical/Rx, dental, and vision insurance.*
- 200 Hours annually of flexible Paid Time Off to use as you see fit.*
- Participation in a Simple IRA* administered by Vanguard with a 3% employer match.**
*After your 90-day introductory/evaluation period.
**Beginning on your 1-year work anniversary.
EOE Statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to age, race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity or expression, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.
