Technical Office Architect Engineer

This Role focuses heavily on translating design concepts into flawless, buildable architectural details, managing finishing packages, and handling material submittals and multidisciplinary coordination (Structure & MEP).

• Coordinate with other Technical Office engineers to produce shop drawings with focus on aesthetics and cost control.
• Analyze building codes, by-laws, space and site requirements, and other technical documents and reports to determine their effect on architectural and civil designs.
• Coordinate structural, electrical, and mechanical designs, and determine a method of presentation to graphically represent building plans.
• Resolve arising conflicts between various design components.
• Draw and print rough and detailed scale plans for foundations, buildings, and structures based on preliminary concepts, sketches, engineering calculations, specification sheets, and other data.
• Lay out and plan interior design arrangements using computer-assisted drafting (CAD) equipment and software.
• Determine and direct procedures and instructions to be followed according to design specifications and quantity of required materials.
• Issue requests for information (RFI) documents to inquire about conflicting or missing information.
• Obtain and assemble data to complete architectural designs, visiting job sites to compile measurements as necessary.
• Analyze technical implications of architect’s design concept, calculating weights, volumes, and stress factors.
• Represent architect on construction site, ensuring builder compliance with design specifications, and advising on design corrections under architect’s supervision
• Check dimensions of materials to be used and assign numbers to lists of materials.