Senior Project Manager

Job Area:
Architecture

Application Deadline:
As soon as possible

Location:
310 Wilshire Boulevard, 2nd floor
90401 Santa Monica, California
United States
Los Angeles

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BIG is a group of 700+ architects, engineers, urbanists, inventors, researchers and business minds from all over the world who are based in our Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona offices. Our built work ranges from the most diverse urban playground and Michelin-star dining - to affordable housing and a school among the verdant fjords of the Faroe Islands. Our vision spans traveling at supersonic speed with Hyperloop One to living in floating cities and eventually Mars! While we are led by a group of expert partners, directors, and associates - a flat hierarchy and collaborative spirit are essential to our BIG ecosystem. We are infectiously ambitious and unified by the shared mission to craft the world we want to live in and to give form to our future one project at a time..

We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a cool workplace where we want to be and we continuously work at becoming better and better at what we do.

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Senior Project Manager

BIG Los Angeles is seeking a Project Manager with 10+ years of experience, preferably within high-end single family residential projects, to join our studio in Santa Monica and help guide our teams through all phases of design and documentation. As a Project Manager at BIG, you will oversee a project’s health and progress, coordinate consultants, clients, and internal architectural teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Project Team
• Maintain primary communication with client
• Coordinate architectural design and building systems with engineering consultants
• Produce and develop technical drawings and details with minimum supervision
• Organize drawing sets and oversee team in completing all submissions
• Perform filing, code, and zoning analyses for multiple municipalities and related zoning ordinances
• Survey and document existing conditions in the field
• Communicate and coordinate with external and internal team members
• Research construction materials and systems
• Responsibility over project budget, staffing, and scheduling
• Experience working with a project team and consultants in schematic design through construction administration

Requirements:

• Experience with Los Angeles legislation and building code
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Architecture, licensure in California
• Minimum 10 years of post-bachelor's degree Architecture firm experience
• Experience in design and detailing projects through construction documentation
• Significant experience in high-end Single Family Residential projects
• Strong understanding of L.A. County zoning, ordinances, and code
• Solid knowledge of products, materials, and construction methods in California
• Proficiency in 3d modeling software strongly preferred (Sketchup, Rhino)
• Experience in guiding the production team through project timeline
• Experience interacting with clients and organizing projects
• An ability to work closely with Partner-in-Charge and production team from schematic design through construction documentation
• Exceptional level of attention to detail and a mastery of organizational and time management skills
• Ability to manage client/consultant communication
• Ability to consistently meet deadlines and deliver
• Ability to mentor junior staff
• Report directly to Partner-in-Charge with routine scheduling updates and planning, design coordination, etc.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Independent with the ability to work in a team environment
• Desire to constantly self-educate and be hands-on
• Ability to bring creative solutions to our design work
• Strong organizational skills

At BIG, we value and encourage the following qualities:

• Be Proactive – Take initiative, do research, and don’t be afraid to try new things; prevent issues rather than fixing them
• Be Reliable – Be someone leadership can trust to deliver on any task
• Be Accountable – From the big picture to the day-to-day, own the decisions you make
• Be Consistent – Prove you can do it, and then do it again and again
• Be Tenacious – Be committed, show up, contribute with passion, do your best, get stuff done and don’t give up
• Be Independent – Don’t be afraid to ask questions, but be able to take a task or project and run with it
• Be Clever – Be smart, know your stuff, think critically, keep the big picture in mind, figure things out, and be curious
• Be Nice – Be a team player and a good colleague, be honest, respect your peers, don’t take yourself too seriously, and have fun!
• Be Generous – Share your knowledge and skills with other BIGsters, and mentor others when you can.

Diversity has been part of our DNA since BIG’s foundation. A multitude of cultures and backgrounds creates a new point of reference which leads to amazing insights. At BIG, we celebrate and support diversity because it makes our team, work, and the built environment better. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and take affirmative action to employ equally regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.