Healthcare QAQC Specialist

We are seeking an experienced architect and technical leader to take a significant role in the quality and successful delivery of our healthcare projects.

Our firm is a growing, healthcare-focused architectural practice of approximately 40–50 professionals. We work on consequential projects for hospitals, health systems, rural healthcare providers, and specialty care organizations throughout Arizona and the surrounding region. Our work includes new hospitals, major renovations and expansions, emergency departments, surgical platforms, imaging, cardiac services, women’s services, inpatient units, pharmacies, sterile processing departments, and other technically demanding healthcare environments.

The Architectural QA/QC position is built around a simple belief: exceptional quality is developed throughout the life of a project and confirmed through an exceptionally thorough final review.

We want quality thinking, infused earlier into planning, design, documentation, coordination, and construction preparation so that issues are identified and resolved while decisions are still being made. At the same time, we place tremendous importance on the comprehensive final review of the completed construction documents.

For us, that final review is not simply a procedural checkpoint. It is one of the hallmarks of great architectural practice.

We are looking for someone capable of both perspectives: the ability to influence quality throughout the project and the discipline to perform a thorough final review before the work is issued for construction.

This individual will participate throughout the project lifecycle, helping teams anticipate technical issues, strengthen coordination, and make sound decisions as the project develops.

• Participating in project startup and helping establish appropriate technical, coordination, and quality expectations.
• Reviewing major planning, design, code, constructability, and technical decisions as projects develop.
• Identifying risks early, when they can still be resolved efficiently and thoughtfully.
• Helping teams translate healthcare planning and design intent into coordinated and technically sound construction documents.
• Establishing meaningful interim QA/QC reviews at appropriate project milestones.
• Reviewing architectural assemblies, details, specifications, and critical building interfaces.
• Evaluating interdisciplinary coordination between architecture, structure, MEP, fire protection, medical equipment, technology, interiors, and specialty consultants.
• Incorporating vendor and owner-furnished equipment into the overall coordination and quality review process.
• Performing and leading a rigorous final review of the complete construction document package prior to issuance.
• Looking across disciplines rather than reviewing each discipline in isolation, with particular attention to conflicts, omissions, interfaces, constructability, and operational consequences.
• Supporting teams through permitting, bidding, RFIs, submittals, field conditions, and construction-related technical issues.
• Following significant issues into construction so that lessons learned become improvements to future projects.
• Identifying recurring problems and helping improve firmwide standards, details, specifications, processes, and training.
• Mentoring architects and project teams in technical judgment and healthcare project delivery.

The strongest candidate will likely bring:

• 10+ years of architectural experience, with substantial healthcare project experience.
• Professional architectural registration strongly preferred.
• Significant experience delivering hospitals, medical centers, ambulatory facilities, or similarly complex healthcare environments.
• Deep knowledge…