Senior Project Architect (8+ Years Experience)

Santa Monica, California, United States

• Category: Architectural Engineering

Description

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BIG is a group of 500+ architects, engineers, urbanists, inventors, researchers and business minds from all over the world who are based in our Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona offices. Our built work ranges from the most diverse urban playground and Michelin-star dining - to affordable housing that feels everything but and a school among the verdant fjords of the Faroe Islands. Our vision spans traveling at supersonic speed with Hyperloop One to living in floating cities and eventually Mars! While we are led by a group of expert partners, directors and associates - a flat hierarchy and collaborative spirit are essential to our BIG ecosystem. We share our collective knowledge and expansive network through study trips and educational workshops – BIG School offers in-house lessons while BIG Picture brings in industry experts to inspire and invigorate. We are infectiously ambitious and unified by the shared mission to craft the world we want to live in, to give form to our future one project at a time. 

Join us on this mission if you are a US Licensed Architect who has:

• A professional degree in Architecture
• 8+ years of architecture experience working on all phases of a single project
• Experience with Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, and MS Office
• In-depth knowledge of building codes and construction documentation
• Construction Administration experience, including field observation

Duties include:

• Defending BIG’s design intent throughout all phases
• Reporting to the Senior Project Manager
• Lead communication with Client & Consultant team
• Production of contract documents
• Management and mentorship of team members

Essential skills:

• Client management 
• Facilitating communication between clients, consultant teams, project teams, vendors, along with building and permitting officials
• Production of contract documents
• Management and mentorship of team members
• Providing technical guidance and innovative solutions to complex technical and design challenges

At BIG, we value and encourage the following qualities:

• Be Proactive – Take initiative, do research, and don’t be afraid to try new things; prevent issues rather than fixing them 
• Be Reliable – Be someone leadership can trust to deliver on any task 
• Be Accountable – From the big picture to the day-to-day, own the decisions you make 
• Be Consistent – Prove you can do it, and then do it again and again 
• Be Tenacious – Be committed, show up, contribute with passion, do your best, get stuff done and don’t give up 
• Be Independent – Don’t be afraid to ask questions, but be able to take a task or project and run with it 
• Be Clever – Be smart, know your stuff, think critically, keep the big picture in mind, figure things out, and be curious
• Be Nice – Be a team player and a good colleague, be honest, respect your peers, don’t take yourself too seriously, and have fun! 
• Be Generous – Share your knowledge and skills with other Bisters, and mentor others when you can. 

BIG Benefits:

• Generous Time Off: Increases over your time at BIG as well as 12 recognized holidays and Winter Break
• Professional Development: Support for continuing education, Amberbook, dedicated time off for AREs, AIA Membership dues, plus regular Lunch & Learns
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, along with ancillary and disability insurance
• Retirement Savings: 401(k) Plan with 3% company match 
• Saving Plans: Flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care
• Family Leave: 2-week pre-birth leave to all expecting parents to get set up for your new family member, generous parental leave, and flexible return-to-work options
• Catered Meals: Complimentary breakfast daily and catered lunches on Wednesdays
• Staff Entertainment: Friday beers and biannual parties - We're BIG on celebrations!
• Additional perks: Dog friendly office, company sponsored sports teams, employee referral bonus, & more!

Salary: $95,000 - $125,000
(The salary offered will be based on the length and relevance of the candidate's work history and the skills developed through their professional experiences.)

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, gender identity or Veteran status.

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.