Project Architect II - Lifestyle

As a Project Architect II, you will lead key technical design components of complex architectural projects while ensuring alignment with client goals, codes, and sustainability standards. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate design intent into coordinated, high-quality documentation. This role offers the chance to provide professional architectural consultation in the planning, design, and coordination of complex multifamily & mixed use projects.

• Produce accurate, code-compliant project deliverables. Develop architectural models, contract documents, and specifications for small-to-moderate complexity projects, integrating codes, sustainability principles, and material standards, while consistently upholding Performance-Based Design intent throughout project documentation.
• Lead coordination between specifications and drawings. Take the lead on aligning project specifications with architectural drawings across all deliverables, applying strong proficiency in Revit to produce precise documentation that supports project goals.
• Manage due diligence and cross-team coordination with autonomy. Independently document existing conditions, prepare plan review submissions, and organize and transfer project files, while coordinating technical designs with internal teams, consultants, and engineers and contributing informed input to project fee and scheduling discussions.
• Lead reviews and resolve compliance issues to protect quality and schedule. Lead reviews of submittals, drawings, estimates, and calculations for accuracy and compliance; resolve construction-phase issues during site visits and code-related issues with authorities having jurisdiction (AHJ), and perform thorough self-checks so every deliverable meets QA/QC standards.
• Mentor junior staff and strengthen team practices. Actively mentor junior architects, sharing technical knowledge and fostering skill development to build a stronger team and process-improvement feedback.

Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.

Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more.

As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.

We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.

We act like owners- because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.

The firm is continually…