Project Architect - Sports​/Education​/Facilities Studios

Project Architect

We are currently hiring a Project Architect in our Architectural division at our Buffalo, NY office. The Project Architect will support our either our Sports or Higher Education or Essential Facilities and Municipal Design Studio. Experience in any of those markets is a plus, but not required to apply.

The Sports Studio is focused on large scale sports, venue and hospitality projects throughout the United States.

The Essential Facilities Design Studio specializes in architectural projects for fire stations, police stations, SWAT Training, armories, 911 Centers, fire and police training centers, department of public works, ambulance centers, mercy flight hangers, and other miscellaneous municipal work for local and County municipalities.

The Architectural Division at LaBella provides comprehensive planning and design services for a wide variety of markets, including Municipal, State, Federal, Healthcare, K-12 and Higher Education, Residential, and Commercial projects.

The overall expectations of the Project Architect position are to work with large project teams, including in-house and outside subconsultants, to ensure that all aspects of the project are being met and completed. An individual in this position needs to be capable of delegating aspects of work to the Project Technician and coordinating with all other disciplines to successfully deliver high quality, coordinated projects.

The Project Architect will assist the Project Manager with client meetings, design team meetings, and construction administration. In addition, the Project Architect must be motivated and capable of performing all duties with minimal guidance.

A successful candidate will be self-motivated with the ability to lead, communicate, coordinate, and motivate. A successful candidate will also possess strong interpersonal, collaboration, and organizational skills, as well as contribute to a positive work environment. This position has excellent advancement opportunities within our corporate structure.

Duties

Ideal candidate could:

• Execute a project start to finish
• Complete thorough and accurate Code reviews
• Have proposal writing experience
• Has experience with client management
• Has a record of executing projects with low change order percentage
• Understands how to execute public works projects
• Has specification writing experience including front end spec preparation
• Is willing to certify their own work