Senior Building Architect
Position Overview
This position exists to deliver expert leadership and project management for industrial building design and coordination activities under a major energy contract based in England. The role requires overseeing architectural, structural, and multi-disciplinary engineering deliverables, ensuring compliance with technical and regulatory standards, and maintaining top-quality documentation throughout all phases of the project.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Leadership & Strategy
- Define conceptual principles for building engineering studies and prepare basic design data and specifications.
- Lead, supervise, and coordinate structural engineers, architects, and building designers to ensure technical quality.
- Organise and assign discipline workload, monitor progress against deadlines, and act as primary interface for all building-related matters.
Quality Compliance & Oversight
- Coordinate architectural, structural, and HVAC studies, ensuring technical and regulatory constraints are thoroughly analysed.
- Validate drawings and deliverables issued by engineering offices or subcontractors for accuracy and compliance.
- Guarantee the quality and compliance of all building-discipline studies according to project standards, procedures, and document-flow rules.
Project Execution Support
- Participate in project reviews, risk analyses, audits, and coordination meetings to support project management teams.
- Manage subcontractor tendering and review deliverables during the EPC phase.
- Coordinate with all disciplines, including Electrical, HVAC, HSE/Safety, Instrumentation, Piping, Underground networks, and others.
Reporting & Performance Management
- Maintain continuous communication with Project Management and relevant departments regarding progress and resources.
- Track project modifications and prioritise them, verifying feasibility and reviewing technical drawings.
- Support reporting, planning, and design follow-up activities, maintaining real-time commented master documents and managing the open points list.
Training & Continuous Improvement
- Apply and maintain up-to-date project procedures, standards, and engineering instructions throughout the project lifecycle.
- Organise and validate structural drawings, packages, standards, and calculation notes, supervising 3D model activities and material take-offs.
- Ensure all documentation is technically accurate, readable, and compliant, including adherence to traceability and verification rules.
Qualifications & Experience
- Confirmed experience in building engineering within industrial sectors.
- Technical mastery of industrial building design across PRO & EXE phases.
- Strong understanding and application of workflow, task sequencing, and project-specific procedures.
Key Competencies
- Ability to coordinate with multiple engineering disciplines and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated capability in project leadership, technical supervision, and quality assurance.
- Expertise in information traceability, document control, and maintaining consistency between discipline drawings.
Senior Building Architect
Position Overview
This position is responsible for leading, supervising, and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering studies for a high-profile industrial building project in the United Kingdom. The role ensures technical quality and compliance across architectural, structural, and secondary-package deliverables for the contract, acting as the primary interface between the client and building-related disciplines. The company is a global EPC provider, specialising in complex engineering projects requiring stringent adherence to standards, procedures, and technical excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Leadership & Strategy
- Analyse technical and regulatory constraints and prepare basic design data and specifications for industrial buildings.
- Define the conceptual principles while coordinating architectural, structural, and HVAC studies and associated disciplines.
- Organise workloads, assign tasks, and monitor progress according to project deadlines, ensuring proper resource allocation.
Quality Compliance & Oversight
- Validate drawings issued by engineering offices and subcontractors to uphold quality and compliance standards.
- Guarantee technical quality, content accuracy, and presentation of all documentation in English, following strict project standards.
- Supervise verification of calculation notes, drawing title blocks, and numbering per established procedures.
Project Execution Support
- Manage estimates including quantities and hours and oversee building material take-offs for accurate project planning.
- Participate in project reviews, risk analyses, audits, and coordination meetings during execution phases.
- Maintain continuous communication with project management teams, providing design follow-up and progress updates.
Reporting & Performance Management
- Support project management teams in reporting, planning, and monitoring adherence to budgets, schedules, and milestones.
- Maintain real-time commented master documents and manage the “open points” list to ensure traceability and action tracking.
- Regularly report to the Project Lead and Building/Civil Lead regarding status and progress of deliverables.
Training & Continuous Improvement
- Apply and monitor project procedures, document-flow rules, and colour-code verification requirements.
- Lead, supervise, and coordinate structural engineers, architects, and designers, fostering team development and knowledge transfer.
- Organise and validate drawings, architectural packages, standards, and calculation notes to maintain technical consistency.
Qualifications & Experience
- Confirmed experience in building engineering with technical mastery of industrial design in PRO & EXE phases.
- Ability to demonstrate management and coordination of multidisciplinary teams, including structural engineers and architects.
- Strong understanding and application of workflow, task sequencing, project standards, rules, and engineering instructions.
Key Competencies
- Exceptional leadership and team supervision capabilities for technical project delivery.
- Advanced knowledge of regulatory interfaces and ability to prioritise project modifications efficiently.
- Consistent application of methodology, traceability, and information control in a dynamic project environment.
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