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Your Role
Due to increased workload in UK and Europe, Gensler’s Birmingham office is seeking a Technical Architect to join our team. You will have Revit capabilities and be responsible for initiating the technical solutions to best meet the client and design briefs. You will be experienced in handling the technical process, with excellent communication and team relationship skills, and the ability to understand and interpret both the client, designer and contractor’s needs and requirements.
What You Will Do
As a Technical Architect, you will tap into your creativity to design unique professional environments, providing technical support for completion and execution of projects, working on all project stages.
- Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously working with the team to design and deliver major projects for professional and financial service companies and other corporate environments. These can be architecture and interior design projects.
- Experience in the design and delivery of workplace and cities design projects is essential
- Manage project lifecycle; estimating, bidding, project kick-off, weekly coordination, punch/snagging lists, turnover, opening, and project close-out
- Support communication between project team, clients, vendors, contractors, consultants, and building and permitting officials
- Provide technical guidance and innovative solutions to resolve complex technical and design challenges
- Maintain project manual and specifications
- Conduct and document site visits, process submittals, substitution requests, and RFI’s during construction
- Have a proactive, problem solving attitude and be able to work closely with the wider consultancy team to develop innovative technical design solutions
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Your Qualifications
- An undergraduate or Master’s degree in Architecture
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in having implemented technical solutions.
- Experience in project leadership, excellent client liaison and team management skills
- Ability to develop collaborative relationships across the firm, with clients, and with other key constituents
- Proficiency in Revit preferred
- Experience with the full project lifecycle
- Ability to understand how buildings are constructed and to create technical documents that succinctly describe the work to be done
- Strong leadership, organizational, communication and relationship-management skills
This job description reflects the core activities of the role although there will be changes in the emphasis of duties as required from time to time.
Please apply
Please apply for this Technical Architect role and submit your CV and brief portfolio for review.
Life at Gensler
Our comprehensive benefits include medical and dental insurance, pension, profit sharing and twice annual bonus opportunities.
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As part of the firm’s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.
NOTICE TO APPLICANTS
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under applicable regulatory laws.
Individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable regulatory laws.
Gensler endeavors to make gensler.com/careers accessible to all applicants. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us.
Regarding Gensler’s approach to recruiting new talent, we will never ask an applicant for sensitive or personal financial information during the recruitment process. We advise all applicants seeking employment with Gensler to review available information on recruitment fraud. Anyone who suspects that they have been contacted by someone falsely representing Gensler should email talentacquisition@gensler.com.
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