Job Description

The 50+ person growing studio is seeking a Job Captain with healthcare experience to join their growing collaborative firm!

Mid-size Los Angeles Architecture + Interiors studio has received acclaim for its award-winning healthcare designs for clients including Kaiser Permanente, UCLA, UCI, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Voted as one of the “Best Places to Work” for healthcare, designers and architects at this firm never leave! This is one of our first clients and candidates love it here. From landmark medical campuses to intimate imaging suites, the studio designs exceptional environments that promote healing while meeting the healthcare industry's planning, efficiency and technical demands. Their studio's architectural ingenuity, technical expertise, and attention to detail consistently place their projects at the forefront of cutting-edge design. (Note: Opportunity for fully remote available with occasional travel to job sites & critical meetings. Candidates must reside in Southern California.)

Overall Responsibilities

• Prepares design and construction documents and assists in architectural project solving

Job Responsibilities

• Lead or design small project.

• Involved with project communication and documentation, along with project team task assignments.

• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally both verbally and in writing to clients, consultants, vendors and staff

• Proficient with office standards as it relates to project documentation

• Assist in writing meeting minutes, change orders, RFI responses and professional correspondence

• Estimate hours for assigned tasks and finish tasks within the agreed-upon budget hours for the task.

• Proficient in the documentation of project design such as three-dimensional modeling, product, or material research.

• Participate in office design charettes.

• May participate in the development of design.

• Support design team and ensure that the design intent is followed through all phases.

• Assist in development of project documents during all phases of the project.

• Understand the organization of the contract documents.

• Assist in organization and generation of working drawings.

• Possess knowledge of drawing setup, layers, plotting/publishing, dimensions, blocks, attributes, purge/audit/recover, back up files, view ports.

• Assist in the development of architectural graphic standards

• Understand technical terminology of the architectural and construction industry.

• Coordinate drawings with consultant drawings and specifications.

• Apply building code concepts of accessibility, occupant loads, exit widths, fire rated walls and doors, ramps, stairs and handrails, and interior environment.

• Prepare complex plans, elevations, and details under guidance of supervisor.

• Understanding of basic construction systems of walls, roofs, doors, and windows.

• Support the construction administration phase of a project by jobsite visits, assisting in review of submittals, shop drawings, response to RFI’s, and preparation of instruction bulletins for changes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional architectural experience, with senior-level job captain positions requiring 8+ years of demonstrated expertise in project management and team leadership.

• Acute healthcare experience preferred; candidates with DSA or life sciences backgrounds will also be considered for intermediate-level Job Captain roles

• Good organizational skills and ability to work under own initiative

• Responsive and dependable to meet deadlines

• Excellent visual, verbal and written communications skills

• Working knowledge of architectural graphic standards

• Exceptional Revit and CAD skills

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