Senior Healthcare Project Architect - NBBJ LP

Senior Healthcare Project Architect – San Francisco

For more than 75 years, NBBJ has been guided by a vision to design for life. We are an award-winning global design and architecture firm, a creative company fueled by ideas, and a place where everyone is empowered to contribute to creating a better practice. Recognized as the world’s most innovative architecture firm by Fast Company, we have partnered with some of the world’s leading companies and institutions — Google, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UCSF, Stanford University and Massachusetts General Hospital, among many others — to set new standards for performance, organizational culture, health and wellness, and technology- and data-driven design.

This is an excellent opportunity to join NBBJ New York in a Senior Healthcare Project Architect role.

NBBJ San Francisco is seeking an experienced Project Architect who has worked on large, complex healthcare projects involving client contact and leadership responsibilities. The Sr. Project Architect will perform architectural design and development work for projects involving construction of new buildings and the alteration of existing buildings and facilities. The successful candidate must be flexible and willing to work with a high-performing team to support other services when the need arises.

Your New Role:

• Working collaboratively with designers, consultants, contractors and owner to achieve mutual project goals
• Ability to work in a collaborative, design-focused open environment
• Engaging in ongoing coordination with engineering disciplines and design-assist subcontractors
• Reviewing and monitoring of performance mock-up
• Responding to Requests for Information (RFIs)
• Reviewing and coordinating submittals and shop drawings
• Coordinating and detailing technical solutions regarding design, fabrication and installation
• Assisting and leading the effort to prepare Change Order documents and seeking approvals
• Monitoring installation and performing completion reviews
• Interfacing with Hcai inspectors concerning code compliance
• Interfacing with Owner-provided inspectors concerning quality control

What you need to Succeed:

• 15+ years of experience in Architecture
• Bachelor of Architecture degree required; Master of Architecture preferred
• Licensed Architect; LEED Accreditation a plus
• Experience providing Construction Administration services on a large-scale healthcare project
• Familiar with building codes and tested life safety features
• Experience with exterior envelope systems from design through construction completion; high-rise experience is beneficial
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proactive approach to timely problem solving is a must
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• User of AutoDesk Revit Architecture required
• Adobe CS4, Sketchup, 3DStudio Max and/or Form Z a plus