Senior Site Architect

Senior Site Architect is responsible for co-leading the DSA Site Supervision team, along with the Project Lead Architect, ensuring compliance with construction & Employer contracts and quality standards while managing the pre-engineering and associated synchronization process and effectively coordinate with various stakeholders and facilitate successful project delivery.

• Managing and supervising the DSA Site Supervision team, which may include Assistant Site Architects, Architectural Inspectors, document controllers, and other admin staff.
• Coordinating all Architects, and sub-consultants site supervision team’s tasks and duties in accordance with the Construction & Employer contract requirements and DSA work QA & QC work procedures.
• Construction Contract requirements and compliance
• In acting out the duties herein the employee is to follow and implement all relevant company and project work procedures.
• Establish / Obtain at the project outset: staffing organization chart, lines of communication & reporting, roles and responsibilities matrix for all project team, all project procedures and proformas for use in site works quality control and site supervision
• Contractor pre-start activities
• Overseeing the implementation at the site or project office of general office tasks, housekeeping and document control, ensuring that the site team comply with all the agreed procedures
• Utilizing of computer software for the document and drawing control, If available and per the contract’s requirements eg Primavera Expedition
• HR Duties / Supervision of Assistant Site Architects, Inspectors and other staff
• Maintaining a full set of Design drawings, schedules, specifications etc.
• Maintaining a set of project managers instructions, contractors verbal instructions, RFI’s and their responses, submittals and their responses (pre-engineering).
• Maintain a Daily diary, which should include: weather, inspections and testing carried out [on and off site], NCN’s & Site Observations raised, contractors’ resources, key events, meetings, client visits, new activities started.
• Receive all incoming the Mail, copy and distribute as appropriate to each sub-consultant.
• Contact and coordinate with the appropriate design consultant and obtain/prepare and issue responses, as required, in a timely manner.
• Prepare and issue letters and other notices, responses etc to the Client, Project Manager, sub-consultants, Contractors and the like. All critical and sensitive issues are only to be issued after consultation with the Project Architect.
• Record poor performance and improvement notices on sub consultants, after consultation and coordination with Project Architect.
• Respond to PM, Client on any raised issues.
• Formal correspondence is to be per the lines of communication agreed with the Client / Project Manager.
• Request and approve the contractor’s documentation in advance of the works starting
• Inspection requests and Inspections, off-site tests and Inspections
• Final Inspection and snagging at project close out and handover
• Contractors’ queries [RFI – Requests for Information]
• Site sketches to be issued formally with a unique reference, date and purpose of issue statement.
• Site Housekeeping and Site Safety
• Review of Contractors payment applications, and progress reports
• Prepare and / or Assist the Design Manager / Design Project manager / Project Architect in production, monitoring of tracking schedules and action lists to produce design deliverables, responses to RFI’s, Submittals etc.
• Close out program and method statement, which is to include: testing and commissioning, NCR closure, snagging/de-snag program activities. Power, water, telephone, chilled water supply connections all other utility connections. Local authority inspections. Training

• Engineering / Architectural diploma or an equivalent degree / certification.
• 15-20 years of site experience.
• Middle East hospitality experience is preferred.
• Proficient with FIDIC Contract Implementation.
• Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team is a must.
• Aconex, Bluebeam, Acrobat, AutoCAD, Office, Snagging (Field, SNAGR, 4P, other). Revit would be advantageous.
• Good verbal and written communication.
• Teamwork & ability to work under pressure.
• Attention to Detail.
• Planning and organizing.
• Progress reporting.
• Pragmatic

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