Senior Architect - Federal (Multiple Locations)

Burns & McDonnell - Roanoke, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Roanoke, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The position involves providing architectural services for various federal projects, including those for the Department of Defense and Department of Energy. The role encompasses overseeing project phases, ensuring compliance with codes, managing project costs, and maintaining client relations. The architect will also be responsible for supervising site observations, preparing reports, and making significant design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Performs various tasks throughout each project phase.
• Supervises the preparation and checks the accuracy of contract documents.
• Incorporates applicable codes, construction techniques and sequences in various projects including all aspects of cross disciplines.
• Supervises and/or performs site observations such as recording and reporting of existing conditions and construction progress.
• Handles problems and questions as they occur during construction.
• Responsible for project cost control.
• Responsible for external communications such as making telephone calls and preparing correspondence to clients, officials, and contractors as required by various projects.
• Writes reports such as feasibility studies, condition reports and recommendations.
• Performs building code reviews and prepares applications.
• Responsible for major design decisions, involving spatial, aesthetic elements and detailing of materials.
• Documents the progression of a routine project through correspondence, calculations, memos, etc.
• Follows routine projects through approvals and construction.
• Initiates contact with client and town officials. Exercises professional judgment in areas of contractual liability.
• Makes public presentations. Responsible for accounting of individual project involvement, i.e. scheduling, scope, role and budget.
• Knowledge of estimating project needs and capable of translating them into budget hours and costs.
• Ability to monitor the budget of a task or series of tasks and make necessary adjustments to keep on budget.
• Capable of providing leadership to a team that is performing a sequence of tasks.
• Ability to instill motivation to the team to meet projected milestones and capable of adjusting the procedures to keep the progress on target.
• Maintains good client relations.
• Follows up on qualifying leads as directed.
• Contributes suggestions on business development.
• Sufficient knowledge of marketing to assist in the preparation of proposals and/or presentations.
• Ability to recruit, identify capable candidates for a growing architectural team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in architecture from a NAAB accredited program.
• Minimum 8 years related experience (completion of master's degree in related field may be substituted for one year of experience).
• Must be able to obtain a Security Clearance.
• Registered Architect or ability to obtain.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Capable of applying intensive and diversified knowledge of principles and practices to broad areas of assignments.
• Must be capable of devising new approaches to problems encountered.
• Previous consulting experience preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous consulting experience preferred.