Architect – Senior Level

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New Orleans, LA, US

Waggonner & Ball, a Moffatt & Nichol Studio, is actively seeking a Senior Architect with historic preservation experience in our New Orleans office. Join a dynamic, collaborative team where you'll lead innovative design across diverse projects, mentor emerging talent, and help shape client relationships and new business opportunities.

As the successful new hire, you will be highly motivated, creative, and a team-oriented individual. You will lead the development of design criteria and direction for projects across a broad range of project types and scales with historic preservation experience. You will lead teams through project research and design as well as manage internal staff development. You will cultivate and maintain client relationships and lead pursuit of new business opportunities and markets.

Waggonner & Ball is an internationally respected urban planning, design, and architecture studio with an interdisciplinary practice committed to creating resilient landscapes, buildings, and communities. Our projects span all scales from buildings and sites to regions with a focus on water, culture, and history. As a Moffatt & Nichol design studio, we collaborate with clients and partners across the country from our home in New Orleans.

Moffatt & Nichol is a leading U.S.

-based global infrastructure advisor specializing in the planning and design of facilities that shape and serve our coastlines, harbors and rivers, as well as an innovator in transportation.
For the 5th year in a row, Moffatt & Nichol is Ranked #1 in Engineering News-Record for Marine & Port Facilities in the U.S. Additionally, our firm consistently ranks in the Top 100 Pure Designers in the US and the Top 50 Designers in International Markets.

Moffatt & Nichol's professional staff includes engineers, planners, scientists and architects who serve our global client base from offices in Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. The firm provides clients worldwide with customized service and a level of excellence that have become the firm’s hallmark in several primary practice areas – ports and harbors; coastal, environmental and water resources;

urban waterfronts and marinas; transportation, bridges and rail; inspection and rehabilitation; and energy.

Together, we deliver beautiful, holistic solutions to the most critical climate challenges of our time.

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

• Leads the development of design criteria for clients/projects
• Manages creative design direction during all phases of projects
• Interfaces with clients on design issues and aligns architectural solutions with client priorities
• Oversees multiple building planning and design efforts
• Leads team collaboration to advance design concepts
• Develops and maintains relationships with other disciplines such as Civil, Structural, Electrical and Mechanical and other consultants to support project delivery
• Guides and monitors design activities on studio projects; conducts technical and design reviews
• Leads design analysis and compilation of specifications for basic to complex architectural assignments
• Leads construction administration of historic renovation projects
• Works closely with project directors with respect to budget and schedule constraints
• Ensures knowledge transfer between studio projects and teams
• Performs other duties as requested by leadership

• Identifies new business opportunities while developing current client…