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Architect & Architectural Manager
POSTED 4/29/2025
Architect & Architectural Manager
Responsible for overseeing architectural projects and ensuring they align with standards, client expectations, and regulatory requirements. Key responsibilities:
- Directing Teams: They lead teams of architects and engineers during various projects, such as building new homes or improving infrastructure.
- Project Oversight: They monitor the preparation of documents and contracts for construction projects, review funds, and prepare estimates.
- Quality Assurance: They coordinate construction activities and ensure quality assurance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Stakeholder Management: They maintain cohesion among clients, contractors, and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery.
Additional Information:
This includes managing the integration of structural, MEP, lighting, AV, landscape, civil engineering, and other consultants throughout the design and construction phases.
- Project Bidding and Estimations: Make bids on potential building projects and develop initial cost estimates, construction timelines, and any special requirements.
- Client Interaction: Work directly with clients to determine their needs and requirements for building projects, offering design solutions that align with their goals.
- Detailed Drawings and Design: Prepare detailed architectural drawings and plans that demonstrate both the exterior and interior layout of the project, ensuring a high level of visual and structural integrity.
- Staff Coordination: Direct and manage staff in the development of project drawings, studies, and budgets, ensuring quality control at every stage of the design process.
- Contract Preparation: Develop and prepare work contracts for building subcontractors, ensuring clear scope and expectations are set.
- Site Inspections: Regularly visit building worksites to ensure that construction is being carried out according to architectural plans and that quality standards are maintained.
- Public Presentations: Develop and deliver presentations to inform the public about upcoming public building projects, promoting transparency and community engagement.
- Architectural Software Proficiency: Utilize architectural software to create comprehensive building plans and designs, ensuring the integration of supporting engineering documents.
- Conflict Resolution: Review architectural documents for potential conflicts with other disciplines and resolve issues before they impact the project.
- Quality Assurance: Perform QA/QC and technical reviews to ensure the final product meets all required standards.
- Team Leadership and Collaboration: Lead and coordinate with the entire project team, including other architects, engineers, and consultants, ensuring smooth collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
Qualifications:
- Architectural License preferred.
- Experienced.
- Proficiency in Revit and experience in managing the integration of engineering documents with architectural designs.
- Strong understanding of building codes, standards, and building structures, with the ability to generate technical documents that clearly define design intent and requirements.
- Experience with construction submittals, substitution requests, and Requests for Information (RFI’s).
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to prepare and deliver presentations to large groups.
- Strong leadership, organizational, and management skills, with the ability to lead design and construction meetings with clients and contractors.
- Knowledge of building permitting processes and experience interfacing with building permitting officials during design and construction.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $90,000.00 – $120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Compensation Package:
- Profit sharing
Ability to Commute:
- Phoenix, AZ 85041 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Phoenix, AZ 85041: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
Project Design Technology Director
POSTED 4/23/2025
Placed at the heart of Gensler’s People + Process + Technology the Design Technology Community drives the firm’s digital transformation of our creative and project delivery practices across the globe. Our ultimate outcome is to co-create a design technology ecosystem that enables our practitioners to leverage the most advanced methodologies and technological solutions reaching a new level of creativity and delivering the most impactful designs to our clients. This is a great opportunity to join a team of innovators at an organization with a global impact, to contribute to world class design, and to help driving our firm’s ambitious commitments to climate resilience.
Your Role
Gensler is embarking on a multi-year, large scale, healthcare project with a very collaborative Owner-Architect-Contractor team. We are seeking a Project Design Technology Director with in-depth knowledge of the entire design and construction process and a strong sense of innovation to support our Design Technology Leadership in managing a high level, world-class game changing project that will redefine patient care. The Director should exemplify leadership through a diverse portfolio of large-scale collaborative projects, experience with Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Big Room concept, as well as the proven ability to work with large project teams in an executive role.
The Project Design Technology Director is multifaceted role that provides project technical leadership, strategic vision and deep tactical expertise in the design technology and digital project delivery space. As the Project Design Technology Director, you will champion the strategy, implementation, and management of all aspects of a long-term, high-profile project delivery, acting as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders, author of critical project related documents / standards, as well as upholding the highest level of design and execution of project.
What You Will Do
- Leadership and management in Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) and BIM Implementation / Execution on large complex projects.
- Prioritize and align the project design technology initiatives with the impact of the project delivery needs.
- Understanding the appropriate roles of an Owner-Architect-Contractor (O-A-C) team, and O-A-C collaborative IPD project delivery model.
- Authoring, advisory, and executing BIM and Design Technology Implementation Strategy on large complex projects.
- Ability to articulate and report on key performance indicators of Design Technology practices across all projects involved.
- Lead design teams, as well as construction teams through a properly executed Design Technology Strategy.
- Meet regularly with all project stakeholders including Client, Construction Manager team, and individual BIM Managers.
- Work with Project Teams Leadership to review contracts, BEP, Project Standards, and other documents to address the Digital Design aspect for project delivery.
- Work with the Regional Design Technology Leadership to incorporate workflows, best practices and content shared across the project and firm.
- Oversee the implementation of training needs within the project team.
- Lead a rigorous implementation of collaboration platforms like Autodesk Construction Cloud.
- Execution of digital fluency between applications to eliminate digital waste.
- Agile production workflows using automation and similar techniques to approach complex tasks and problem solving.
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or equivalent, with 15+ years of experience in design and/or construction practice preferred. Licensed professional preferred.
- 5 years of proven experience in complex project-specific parametric BIM workflow from start to finish in all phases of design and delivery.
- Expert knowledge of, and proven practical background in, Autodesk Revit Architecture and related BIM software (Navisworks, Revizto, BIM 360/Autodesk Construction Cloud Workflow)
- Knowledge of design applications such as SketchUp, Rhino, Visual Programming (Dynamo / Grasshopper), Project Visualization tools, Generative Design tools and how they may best work together.
- Expert in implementing and supporting design collaboration platforms such as design authoring tools in a virtual environment, Panzura collaboration, AEC cloud-based products (ACC, Docs, Coordinate and Build).
- Articulate communicator, able to convey Design Technology concepts to all levels of design and delivery leadership.
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to listen and drive consensus through relationship building and ability to bring project teams to work together across the globe.
- Ability to exercise judgment and discretion and to set priorities and manage competing demands.
- Reliable, responsive and positive work ethic with the highest degree of integrity.
- Creative thinker dedicated to problem solving and research.
Life at Gensler
At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Awareness Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.
As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.
Design Technology Manager
POSTED 4/23/2025
Your Role
We are seeking a professional with a passion for experimentation, innovation, and problem solving to join our Design Technology team. As a Design Technology Manager located in our incredible Phoenix office, your role will be on promoting, implementing, and elevating our BIM, Computational and Visualization workflows and protocols. In partnership with the SW Regional Design Technology leadership, you will ensure the deployment of initiatives to elevate Design Technology fluency and capabilities to projects and to the Phoenix office.
This is a multifaceted role that provides vision, leadership, strategic value and deep tactical expertise in the design technology and digital project delivery space. You will use your soft skills, relationship building and technical expertise to drive with confidence process innovation, optimization, and digital platforms implementation in partnership with your fellow Regional and Global Design Technology community.
You will maintain the lines of communication with office leaders, studio leaders and project teams. You will also establish goals and project plans in support of Global, Regional and office objectives, as well as monitoring and reporting on progress. You will establish, interpret, and communicate changes in guidelines, policies, procedures, and other related matters as well as acting as a mentor to project teams on the best Design Technology practices through the lifecycle of a project.
What You Will Do
- Design Technology process innovation, creation, and implementation.
- Subject Matter Expert on agile digital project delivery to project teams.
- Project Technology Execution Plan development, implementation, and support.
- Development, implementation and support of tools, templates, and workflows.
- Champion digital transformation and cultural change to project teams, the office and the region.
- Collaborate with Regional Design Technology leaders on requirements and priorities.
- Participate in establishing and driving the Design Technology roadmap for the Phoenix office.
- Lead cultural, process-driven, and technical training in Design Technology.
- Research emerging technologies and define use-cases for implementation on projects.
- Partner with Design Synergies and design practitioners in the Phoenix office.
- Develop and strengthen relationships with office and studio leaders by improving communication, transparency, and involvement at project start up.
- Work with the Regional Design Technology Director to collect project metrics and establish reporting of key performance indicators.
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in AEC/O space.
- Experience working in Architecture or related industries, with detailed knowledge of project processes, milestones, and deliverables.
- Documented progressive growth and experience in leading / supporting Design Technology and innovative framework / workflows in project delivery.
- Expert in design authoring technology platforms in areas of implementation, practice, and development for Autodesk Revit, and Navisworks.
- Expert in implementing and supporting cloud-based platforms for design collaboration such as BIM 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).
- Entrepreneurial spirit that embraces change and constantly seeks out new opportunities.
- Articulate communicator with strong story-telling ability to push new innovative concepts and ideas in a highly creative culture.
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to listen and drive consensus through relationship building and ability to win the trust of teammates and project teams.
- Highly desired understanding of and experience in computational design platforms and visual programming such as Rhino, Grasshopper and Dynamo.
- Highly desired experience in interoperability integration with a visualization pipeline and VR/AR hardware and software including VRay, 3DS Max and Enscape, as well as generative A.I.
*This is not a remote position. The successful candidate is expected to be in our Phoenix office.*
Life at Gensler
At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Awareness Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.
As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.
Project Architect/Designer
POSTED 4/17/2025
We are seeking a person with at least 4 years of experience to join our team. Candidates should have completed either a 5 year Bachelor of Architectural professional degree or a 4+2 Master of Architecture professional degree. Licensure is preferred but working towards licensure is acceptable. The ideal candidate must be proficient in Autocad, Revit, MSOffice Suite, Adobe Suite, and Bluebeam. You should be able to communicate with consultants, clients, contractors, and authorities having jurisdiction. You must be able to prepare construction documents as well as guide junior level staff to work together to meet deadlines, receive building permits, and respond to contractor requests to facilitate conbstruction. This is a 40 hour per week, Monday thru Friday, in office opportunity. We offer insurance and benefits after 90 days. Please email resume and cover letter to the address below.
Project Manager
POSTED 4/15/25
Come build something with Shepley Bulfinch as a Project Manager!
Shepley Bulfinch is seeking a well-rounded Project Manager who is creative and passionate about architecture, curious about solving complex problems, and looking to grow and learn from others that share the same values. The ability to manage a team of 3-10 people, establishing project workplans (staffing, budget, schedule) and fulfilling contractual, financial and cost control responsibilities. Special emphasis is placed on the importance managing higher education and mixed-use development projects. We are looking for someone comfortable leading or assisting on the internal production and delivery of architectural drawings, interfacing with clients, and leading meetings during the construction administration phase of a project.
Who We Are:
Shepley Bulfinch is a national architecture and design firm with offices in Boston, Hartford, Houston, Phoenix and Durham. Founded in 1874, the firm has a notable legacy of challenging convention, pioneering visionary design ideas, and collaborating with clients who seek to drive measurable change.
How do you know if this role is right for you?
You are collaborative, flexible and well-rounded. You have proven experience in making your voice heard to fulfill the design goals of the firm. You know how to maintain positive working relationships with clients and contractors. You thrive working independently and collaboratively. You are passionate about design and comfortable explaining your design choices. Finally, you have a strong foundation of technical knowledge and familiarity with both interior and exterior detailing.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 10 years of experience working on all phases of architectural projects
- Prior experience with higher education and mixed-use development projects
- B.Arch., M.Arch. or equivalent degree
- Registered architect preferred (we will accept candidates actively pursuing licensure)
- Significant experience managing and using Revit for architectural documentation, as well as experience reviewing submittals, responding to RFIs and revising documents in Revit.
Shepley Bulfinch offers competitive benefits and compensation, including health and dental insurance, a 401(k) and profit-sharing plan, and flexible work schedules, as well as a range of professional growth and development opportunities.
Shepley Bulfinch is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Architectural/Technical Designer - Senior
POSTED 4/9/2025
Your Role
At Gensler, we design for people. We leverage our global perspective and local presence to innovate at every scale. We’re not just designers; we’re tinkerers, craftspeople, visionaries, innovators, and thought leaders. Fueled by passion and an entrepreneurial spirit, our people bring new ideas to solve challenging problems. Whether you’re into sketching new ideas, hacking a building, or growing client relationships in global markets, there’s something here for everyone.
We are looking for a Senior Architectural / Technical Designer to design mixed-use, workplace, residential, hospitality, education projects and more throughout the Southwest Region. We are collaborative and client focused, with a commitment to design experience, sustainability and social purpose.
You’ll lead and drive client projects from concept through build, ensuring that we deliver unparalleled architectural solutions. You will collaborate with a team of architects and designers to develop innovative and resilient learning environments, manage technical documentation, and provide creative direction.
What You Will Do
- Work closely with our project leadership and design team to develop architectural solutions from conceptual level through construction documentation
- Resolve complex technical and design issues, providing guidance to the team
- Lead the creative efforts and develop overall design concepts and design presentation strategies
- Mentor and provide creative direction to design teams
- Act as the primary design interface with clients and consultants
- 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
- Produce design concept drawings and finished design presentation documentation
- Review and manage project program and design deliverables
- Review drawings, mockups, materials, and finish samples submitted by project contractors
- Participate in business development and marketing efforts
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture from an accredited school
- 15+ years of project experience in architectural design
- Licensed Architect required
- Strong leadership, communication, presentation, and relationship management skills
- Proficiency in Revit required; experience with AutoCAD, Bluebeam Revu, SketchUp, Enscape, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), and MS Office encouraged
- Working knowledge of building codes, standards, building construction, and building structures
- LEED accreditation is preferred
- Demonstrated commitment to sustainability and sustainable building practices; portfolios should include at least one project with LEED, Living Building Challenge, WELL Building Standard, Fitwel, and/or Net Zero Building certification
Life at Gensler
At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From hiking and camping excursions to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.
As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.
*Notice: At Gensler an unlicensed Architect or Designer focused in architecture will have the job title of Technical Designer and operate in this capacity for alignment with internal programs, doing business with clients and compliance with industry and government regulations. If you have any questions regarding this notice, please ask our Talent Acquisition team during the application process.