Senior Architect

Hiring Department

Plan, Design & Construction

Job Description

At Planning, Design, and Construction, we are passionate about shaping the University of Missouri (MU) Columbia campus’ future by creating innovative, high-quality spaces that inspire and support the university's mission. We lead every phase of design and construction, from concept to completion, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards.

Nature of Work

• Provides professional architectural services to meet client requests/needs. Provides functional supervision of the day-to-day activities of other architectural and/or engineering design professionals.
• Performs assignments and responsibilities of varying degrees of complexity and diversity
• Works within broad guidelines and policies, providing input to policy development and improvement as requested
• Evaluates information/data from field sites to review project status
• Performs quality assurance for construction projects and reviews safety practices
• Solves complex problems and analyses
• Analyzes project feasibility and design studies relative to needs and budget, space needs, layout and arrangement, selecting materials and the more specific design of construction systems and details.
• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams
• Explains difficult or sensitive information with a goal to build consensus
• Maintain relationships with contractors
• Collaborates with others inside the functional area, and at times outside the functional area

Key Responsibilities

• Confer with department representatives to determine and coordinate design criteria for completion of design drawings; advise with regard to feasibility.
• Assist departments in evaluation of needs, identification of priorities, and development of construction documents required for project implementations.
• Provide information to departmental representatives concerning needed changes in cost, schedule, and project requirements.
• Plan, assign, and manage activities of professional staff, provide assistance and instruction, assure accuracy and completeness, and code compliance; monitor design staff progress; with respect to adherence to schedules, hours, expended time on projects, and quality of over-all product.
• Prepare, review and seal project specifications and construction documents required for all types of building construction.
• Prepare architectural analysis of project including preliminary design, calculation, life cycle cost.
• Advise clients on the project scope, schedule, and budgetary constraints; understand interrelationship between these project components and how they affect project viability.
• Exhibit understanding and ability to recommend construction/project costs and durations.
• Exhibit proficiency with building codes, national standards, and guidelines as identified by the University System related to new construction and renovation of facilities.
• Collaborate with other Campus Facility and University stakeholders; understand and apply campus standards for building systems and components.
• Prepare drawings required for all types of building construction, including required study on fire, structural and handicapped codes.
• Exhibit proficiency with Auto Desk AutoCAD software.
• Develop preliminary estimates on projects.
• Manage bid process.
• Manage and perform contract administration tasks [such as field observations, submittal review, prepare responses to questions, supplemental instruction, etc.]
• Manage departmental staff time and project related costs including monthly invoicing procedures.
• Attend pre-project scope meetings and develop preliminary cost opinions and schedules.