Senior/Lead Designer (Experienced)

London, United Kingdom

• Category: Architectural Engineering

Description

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Overview

At Zaha Hadid Architects, we are seeking to hire an experienced Senior/Lead Architect on a fixed-term, full time contract to join our growing team in London. The ideal candidate should have strong detailing and delivery skills, with substantial coordination and construction stage experience (RIB 3+).

Main responsibilities

Coordinate with consultants, contractors and suppliers

Produce details and construction drawings

Work independently to resolve design and technical issues 

Research products and specifications

Your profile

Effective communicator when describing complex ideas for drawings or models

Collaborative and influential team leader and team player 

Highly organized, effectively managing your time and that of others.

Confident in exercising judgement, making, and implementing reasoned decisions.

Professional always and leading by example.

Enquiring and adaptable.

Self-motivated and self-critical.

Willing to develop, learn and go the extra mile.

Skills Required

Must demonstrate Revit proficiency.

Strong technical knowledge in coordination and detailing.

Required experience

Qualified Part 3 Architect (or equivalent international qualification) with demonstrable and relevant experience of working in practice.

Previous experience of working on large scale, complex projects is beneficial.

Experience delivering packages at RIBA stages 3+ or equivalent.

How to apply

Along with your CV and Portfolio, please also include detailed examples of projects using Revit in your application.

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About us

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) redefined architecture for the 21st century with a repertoire of projects that have captured imaginations across the globe. Creating buildings uniquely tailored to the communities they serve, ZHA has been awarded the highest honours from professional and academic institutions worldwide. Founded by Zaha Hadid in 1979, ZHA is one of the world’s most consistently inventive architectural studios—and has been for four decades. These decades of pioneering research are inscribed within our architecture to become more spatially inventive, more structurally efficient, more technologically advanced, and more environmentally considerate with every new design. Combining innovative architectural solutions with ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction practices, we do not look at the disparate parts but work to understand them as a whole to meet the aspirations of each new generation. As an employee-owned business, we reinvest all profits back into our people and our company; continually enhancing our multidisciplinary research to address the challenges impacting communities around the world.

Company

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ZHA

We work at all scales and in all sectors. We create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces that work in synchronicity with their surroundings.

Zaha Hadid Architects create landmarks projects for all types of functional programs. Their buildings are never bland or mundane, but moreover assertive statements of a particular view, that the world may indeed look different. Their efforts have resulted in a staggering almost one thousand projects throughout the globe, in every scale, from urban design schemes to objects and furniture design.

Zaha Hadid Architects embraced digital drawing early on. This has made the studio able to challenge traditional ways of making architecture. In collaboration with senior office partner Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid has meticulously explored the possibilities of parametric design, allowing for the conception and construction of architecture as seamless flows of energy and matter. Zaha Hadid is the 2004 Pritzker Prize laureate and winner of the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011.