Design Director – Architecture – Sports

Overview

What We're Looking For:

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for achieving the firm’s design goals by providing leadership, creativity, and mentorship throughout the practice. This role establishes foundational design goals and values serving select market sectors or specialized discipline in support of firmwide philosophy, values, and principles governed by the Chief Design Officer and other practice-wide leadership. This role serves as a primary source of leadership and accountability for the consistency, quality and innovation within the role’s market and/or discipline focus.

Design Directors also foster a positive creative culture across all studios and with clients to ensure the delivery of high-quality design work across the organization.

• Works in conjunction with each Office Design Leader to coordinate and produce a consistently high quality design product achieving HNTB's 4 for 4 standards (Consistent delivery of quality work, on time, on budget and to the client's satisfaction on every project).
• Instills a design culture of excellence by conducting regular project design reviews within all offices to ensure project design performance.
• Leads the development and implementation of the activities of the National Design Committee.
• Provides HNTB an active link to academia through studio and advisory council participation.
• Represents HNTB at the national level within professional and design societies.
• Works closely with Officers by representing design with strategic planning framework.
• Assists Office Leaders in the hiring, supervision, development and evaluation of the design staff throughout the organization.
• Actively participates in the development and presentation of pursuit strategies across all market sectors within the firm.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Planning as appropriate to the specific core practice and 15 years of experience in progressively responsible positions, ideally with a large, multi-discipline firm
• 10 years’ experience in design of complex projects