Senior Building Architect

Senior Building Architect Position Overview This position exists to deliver expert leadership and project management for industrial building design and coordination activities under a major energy contract based in England. The role requires overseeing architectural, structural, and multi-disciplinary engineering deliverables, ensuring compliance with technical and regulatory standards, and maintaining top-quality documentation throughout all phases of the project.

This position is responsible for leading, supervising, and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering studies for a high-profile industrial building project in the United Kingdom. The role ensures technical quality and compliance across architectural, structural, and secondary-package deliverables for the contract, acting as the primary interface between the client and building-related disciplines. The company is a global EPC provider, specialising in complex engineering projects requiring stringent adherence to standards, procedures, and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities Quality Leadership & Strategy

Define conceptual principles for building engineering studies and prepare basic design data and specifications.

Analyse technical and regulatory constraints and prepare basic design data and specifications for industrial buildings.

Lead, supervise, and coordinate structural engineers, architects, and building designers to ensure technical quality.

Define the conceptual principles while coordinating architectural, structural, and HVAC studies and associated disciplines.

Organise and assign discipline workload, monitor progress against deadlines, and act as primary interface for all building-related matters.

Organise workloads, assign tasks, and monitor progress according to project deadlines, ensuring proper resource allocation.

Quality Compliance & Oversight

Coordinate architectural, structural, and HVAC studies, ensuring technical and regulatory constraints are thoroughly analysed.

Validate drawings and deliverables issued by engineering offices or subcontractors for accuracy and compliance.

Guarantee the quality and compliance of all building-discipline studies according to project standards, procedures, and document-flow rules.

Validate drawings issued by engineering offices and subcontractors to uphold quality and compliance standards.

Guarantee technical quality, content accuracy, and presentation of all documentation in English, following strict project standards.

Supervise verification of calculation notes, drawing title blocks, and numbering per established procedures.

Project Execution Support

Participate in project reviews, risk analyses, audits, and coordination meetings to support project management teams.

Manage estimates including quantities and hours and oversee building material take-offs for accurate project planning.

Manage subcontractor tendering and review deliverables during the EPC phase.

Coordinate with all disciplines, including Electrical, HVAC, HSE/Safety, Instrumentation, Piping, Underground networks, and others.

Participate in project reviews, risk analyses, audits, and coordination meetings during execution phases.

Maintain continuous communication with project management teams, providing design follow-up and progress updates.

Reporting & Performance Management

Maintain continuous communication with Project Management and relevant departments regarding progress and resources.

Support project management teams in reporting, planning, and monitoring adherence to budgets, schedules, and milestones.

Track project modifications and prioritise them, verifying feasibility and reviewing technical drawings.

Maintain real-time commented master documents and manage the open points list to ensure traceability and action tracking.

Regularly report to the Project Lead and Building/Civil Lead regarding status and progress of deliverables.

Training & Continuous Improvement

Apply and maintain up-to-date project procedures, standards, and engineering instructions throughout the project lifecycle.

Apply and monitor project procedures, document-flow rules, and colour-code verification requirements.

Organise and validate structural drawings, packages, standards, and calculation notes, supervising 3D model activities and material take-offs.

Lead, supervise, and coordinate structural engineers, architects, and designers, fostering team development and knowledge transfer.

Organise and validate drawings, architectural packages, standards, and calculation notes to maintain technical consistency.

Qualifications & Experience

Confirmed experience in building engineering within industrial sectors.

Confirmed experience in building engineering with technical mastery of industrial design in PRO & EXE phases.

Technical mastery of industrial building design across PRO & EXE phases.

Ability to demonstrate management and coordination of multidisciplinary teams, including structural engineers and architects.

Strong understanding and application of workflow, task sequencing, project standards, rules, and engineering instructions.

Strong understanding and application of workflow, task sequencing, project standards, rules, and engineering instructions.

Key Competencies

Ability to coordinate with multiple engineering disciplines and stakeholders.

Demonstrated capability in project leadership, technical supervision, and quality assurance.

Expertise in information traceability, document control, and maintaining consistency between discipline drawings.

Exceptional leadership and team supervision capabilities for technical project delivery.

Advanced knowledge of regulatory interfaces and ability to prioritise project modifications efficiently.

Consistent application of methodology, traceability, and information control in a dynamic project environment.

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