Project Designer - Healthcare Details

Project Designer - Healthcare

HGA Architects & Engineers - Santa Monica, CA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Overview: Come be a designer for HGA, an integrated design firm that helps clients realize their organization's vision and potential through responsive, innovative, and sustainable design. We achieve this through a multidisciplinary approach rooted in collaboration, knowledge sharing, and design exploration. Recognized among the top architecture, interior design, and engineering firms in the country, HGA now has 12 offices nationwide, and over 900 employees. That means the local project work has the studio feel – with the robustness of national resources!
You would be using your experiences to design a variety of project types within the healthcare sector. You’ll use your excellent communication, presentation, time management and people skills as you will work closely with a Senior Designer and Project Manager developing non-routine and complex design concepts in a manner responsive to the client's needs and deadlines.

At HGA, we work to foster an environment where diversity of thought, background and experience creates new energy. Through your curiosity, tenacity, creativity and unique insights you can make an impact every day. That impact is felt by your colleagues, by our clients, and by those who inhabit the spaces we create. We are committed to meeting our clients’ sustainability goals as well as challenging our industry. We aim to develop the expertise and research to push beyond net zero energy to net positive energy; from a neutral effect on health, safety, and resources to a positive one. As the need and desire for sustainable environments grow, so does the focus on high-performance buildings with sound data that we can share back with our clients and our design teams.

Responsibilities: In this role you will:

• Develop a thorough understanding of projects’ design philosophy and provide major input in developing a design and building performance strategy and effectively convey this to assigned team members when appropriate.
• Provide technical design input and support for the development of the entire design concept. Responsible for a project’s technical design effort, subsequent detailed design development, project coordination and quality control efforts during all phases of project work, in close collaboration with Senior Designer.
• Seek creative and innovative solutions to assigned tasks and develops appropriate research and documents to support these solutions.
• Actively collaborate with and coordinate work of consultants and knowledge resources to ensure the project deliverables are coordinated, integrated, and support the design concept and performance goals of the project.
• Contribute to the preparation of design documents and leads the detailed development of construction documents during all project phases, delivering complete, accurate and coordinated project documentation.
• Advance the production of schematic, design development and construction documents drawings and specifications in compliance with project scope, schedule, cost, and design intent.
• Maintain awareness of evolving building technology and systems.
• Review shop drawings, material samples and CD’s for conformance with design.
• Perform construction administration duties (e.g., RFI’s, RFP’s, change orders, etc.)
• Prepare reports and specifications; reviews completed reports, plans, cost estimates and calculations.
• Execute applicable agency review analysis (accessibility, zoning, life-safety, etc.)
• Establish architectural budget, task schedule and other components of the project work plan in collaboration with Project Manager.
• Implement meeting objectives, facilitates meetings, and provides meeting notes documentation.
• Maintain contact with clients, consultants, and contractors during all project phases, participating in marketing, client and owner presentations as required.

Qualifications: We’re looking for someone with

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture required
• This position requires 10 -15 years’ experience, including working on small- to large-scale project types
• Strong graphics skills are an essential
• Knowledge of Revit, 3D Max, SketchUp and other industry accepted software as well as expertise with project management software and Microsoft Office Suite products is needed

Preferably,

• Master’s degree
• LEED accreditation

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