Senior Architect (+10 years experience)

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

• Category: Architectural Engineering

Description

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BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) is an international architectural company characterized by an entrepreneurial spirit, true teamwork across expertise areas and new ways of approaching conventional tasks. We have an informal work environment where camaraderie and collegial support are highly valued and where ambition, very high work morale and dedication to being the innovators of our field unify our staff. Our office culture is characterized by creativity, high energy, and a strong team spirit. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a workplace where we want to be and work continuously at becoming better and better at what we do. 

We are a company experiencing steady growth and, as we grow, we also strive to mature. Over the past 15 years as a group, we have developed from being 10 to 750 people in the organization in Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona, Shenzhen and Los Angeles. 

As our office in Barcelona is growing at a rapid pace and we have a pipeline of interesting projects, we are looking for Senior Architects with +10 years’ experience.

AVAILABILITY: We request immediate availability, for selected candidates to join with in 4 weeks or less from contract extended.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work with and report daily to the Project Manager and/or Project Architect.
• Assist with the management of junior team members.
• Drafting comprehensive drawing sets from concept through construction documents.
• Generate detailed 3D models to develop all parts of the changing design process.
• Technical detailing & construction administration experience, with the ability to resolve design issues in a creative and pragmatic way by developing multiple design options that meet the project budget and design approach.
• Strong ability to prepare, develop and edit drawings and models as they relate to the project.
• Good conceptual and design skills, with aesthetic flair.
• Communication, coordination and management of consultants, contractors, clients, regulatory agencies and approving bodies to meet overall project objectives.
• Deliverables produced in accordance with BIG’s standards and based on direction from the Project Manager/Architect and the Partner in Charge.

Essential skills:

• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English and Spanish - spoken and written.
• Significant contributions to an extremely well documented and coordinated drawing set.
• Excellent ability in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, Adobe Suite; Grasshopper and V-Ray is a plus. 
• Solid knowledge of products, materials, zoning / building codes and construction methods.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines on budget and on time.
• A keen eye for attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proactive and self-motivated, with the ability to take initiative in response to direction from project managers, directors and partners.
• A team player, with a flexible and open attitude towards new ways of working and collaborating.

Experience and qualifications:

• Professional qualification as an Architect or an equivalent overseas qualification.
• 10+ years of professional experience in all phases of the design process: conceptual, detail and design development, construction documents, and construction administration with site supervision.
• Experience on built and published references.

BIG offers: 

• A young and social environment with many social events. 
• Diverse group of people with many different nationalities. 
• Salary scheme based on experience and qualifications. 
• Flexible lunch options. 

Application:
Please apply using the "Send Application" button (CV, portfolio and motivation letter). We will contact you if your profile matches our requirements. 

As we are excited to welcome our new colleague to our team, we are looking to fill this position as soon as possible. Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis, and the job ad will be taken down when the right candidate has been found.

Diversity has been part of our DNA since BIG’s foundation. A multitude of cultures and backgrounds creates a new point of reference which leads to amazing insights. At BIG, we celebrate and support diversity because it makes our team, work and the built environment better. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and take affirmative action to employ equally regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. 

Company

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BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. Like a form of programmatic alchemy we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms.

BIG is led by 12 partners – Bjarke Ingels, Sheela Maini Søgaard, Finn Nørkjær, Thomas Christoffersen, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Andreas Klok Pedersen, David Zahle, Jakob Lange, Beat Schenk, Daniel Sundlin, Brian Yang and Jakob Sand. In addition, BIG has named 11 Associates at BIG NYC, including Agustin Perez-Torres, Iben Falconer, Christopher White, Daniel Kidd, David Brown, Jakob Henke, Leon Rost, Doug Stechschulte, Martin Voelkle, Ziad Shehab, Sören Grünert  and 6 Associates at BIG CPH, including Cat Huang, Frederik Lyng, Gabrielle Nadeau, Hanna Johansson, João Albuquerque, Ole Elkjær-Larsen.