Bring your passion and experience to a national interdisciplinary, award-winning design firm and collaborate with industry thought leaders in design, sustainability, and architectural innovation. If you’re a licensed CA architect looking to lead complex projects in the Southern California region, this may be the perfect role for you.
This architectural firm fosters an environment where diversity of thought, background, and experience creates new energy. Through curiosity, tenacity, creativity, and unique insights, you can make an impact every day—on colleagues, clients, and those who inhabit the spaces created. The firm is committed to meeting clients’ sustainability goals and challenging the industry by developing expertise and research to push beyond net zero energy to net positive energy; from a neutral effect on health, safety, and resources to a positive one. As the need and desire for sustainable environments grow, so does the focus on high-performance buildings with sound data that can be shared with clients and design teams.
This architectural studio is team-oriented and employee-friendly, integrating social activities into the office culture. The firm offers challenges, recognition, and personal visibility, with opportunities to be part of great projects.
The firm has 12 offices all around the nation focusing on healthcare, arts and culture, community, corporate, education, and government projects.
Responsibilities
Develop a thorough understanding of the project's design philosophy, provide major input in developing a design and building performance strategy, and effectively convey this to assigned team members.
Provide technical design input, taking responsibility for the project's technical design efforts, detailed design development, project coordination, and quality control during all phases, closely collaborating with the Senior Designer.
Mentor emerging and recently licensed professionals within the practice group.
Provide technical and professional oversight as a Senior Project Architect for future project architects within the practice group.
Seek creative and innovative solutions, develop appropriate research, and document these solutions.
Actively collaborate with and coordinate the work of consultants and knowledge resources to ensure project deliverables are coordinated, integrated, and support the design concept and performance goals.
Lead the detailed development of construction documents during all project phases, ensuring complete, accurate, and coordinated project documentation.
Advance the production of schematic, design development, and construction document drawings and specifications in compliance with project scope, schedule, cost, and design intent.
Execute applicable agency review analysis (Accessibility, zoning, life-safety, etc.).
Maintain contact with clients, consultants, and contractors during all project phases, participating in marketing, client, and owner presentations as required.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Architecture (Master’s degree preferred)
10+ years of professional experience with small-to-large scale project types, including Workplace/Commercial Interiors, Interior Architecture, Core and Shell projects, Adaptive Reuse (multiple program types), Hospitality, and Building Repositioning.
Architecture license in California required
Current knowledge and use of California Building Codes
Experience working with local Building & Safety offices (City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, and other regional municipalities)
Experience securing entitlements with the municipalities noted above and/or providing architectural support to land use consultants
Experience with private clients/developers and public sector/municipality clients
Proficiency in Revit required
Experience with AutoCAD, SketchUp, Enscape, and other graphic tools desired
Experience with Bluebeam Studio
LEED accreditation preferred
Join this dynamic team where your contributions will be recognized and valued, and you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative and impactful projects.
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Matching Candidates and Companies
Northern Impact is dedicated to connecting innovative professionals
in engineering, architecture, retail, marketing/sales, information technology, legal, HR, finance & accounting with growing and like-minded companies.
Organizational Values
Team Collaboration – We treat each candidate and employer as a member of the team. As with any successful team, timely and effective collaboration is paramount. We are dedicated leaders of the recruitment process, ensuring our candidates and employers succeed.
Communication – We ensure candidates and companies are given real-time feedback on the status of the recruitment process to ensure all parties are satisfied.
Culture – Corporate culture and fit are critical to the long-term success of being any hire hired. We are
dedicated to evaluating company culture and validating a candidate’s potential fit in all recruitment's.
Results Orientated – Our goal is to find the right candidate for all of our clients – We succeed
when candidates and clients realize a long-term employment.
Growth – To help facilitate the companies’ growth and revenue with our skilled Professionals.
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By submitting your resume to us, we’ll keep you up-dated on current opportunities in the job market place. Many of our placed candidates were never actively looking, but made a change because Northern Impact presented a better opportunity to get them to the next level in their career. Your resume is kept confidential and only presented with your permission. We screen companies for you and strive to match your skill, talent and passion to ensure the right cultural and long lasting fit.
Submit Resume to info@northernimpacts.com
For Business inquires call Esther Stenzler : +1 (213) 335-4696
