Summary :
Elgabaly Architects is a collective of forward-thinking architects, engineers, designers, planners, thinkers, and visionaries. Our collaborative team accumulates over 28 years experience of designing boundary-breaking projects that seek to enrich humanity, connect locals and visitors to fascinating architectural icons, and redefine the benchmark of what's possible with design in the information age.
Responsibilities :
- Managing a design team to meet customer needs.
- Manage and coordinate with consultants and vendors.
- They include, but are not limited to, production architects, engineers, renderers, furniture vendors.
- Managing the design process.
- Work with team to develop proposals that speaks to the client's needs, concerns, and objectives.
- Supporting, understanding and advising the client as to the requirements and obligations in the development of a building design.
- Encouraging and inspiring design consultants to produce their best work using their full flair, experience, resources and talents in a cost effective way.
- Ensuring the design process recognizes current legislation, standards and codes of practice, where appropriate.
- Ensuring design information is of the right quality and keeps pace with project timescales; and Striving to eliminate health and safety risks in the design and financial risks during construction.
- Submit weekly progress reports and ensure data is accurate.
- Track and record activity on accounts and help to close deals to meet these targets.
- Submit weekly progress reports and ensure data is accurate.
- Work with marketing staff to ensure that prerequisites (like prequalification or getting on a vendor list) are fulfilled within a timely manner.
- Ensure all team members represent the company in the best light.
- Screens potential business deals by analyzing market strategies, deal requirements, potential, and financials; evaluating options; resolving internal priorities; recommending equity investments.
- Manage the design development and construction document drawing production phases.
- Ensure consultants maintain schedules and are provided information required to complete drawings.
- Review, redline, and approve all construction documents to ensure drawings are accurate and consistent (especially between the architectural and engineering documents).
- Manage consultant's budgets and discern the need and request additional scope work.
- Develop and maintain deliverable schedules.
- Collaborate closely with other related groups so that documents are delivered and evaluated within the timelines established.
- Capable of identifying any discrepancies between deliverables and constantly evolving project objectives.
- Identify and maintain any timelines that are related to the Department of Building or any other government agency.
- Conduct periodic coordination meetings involving related consultants so that information is shared and dialogue is constant.
- Record and minute all meetings and keep track of attendees input.
- A minimum of 8-12 years.
- BA/BS degree in Architect
- Advanced AutoCAD, Revit.
- Critical understanding of best practices for user-centered design and functionality.
- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast paced, independent environment.
- Be self-directed, self-motivated, organized and disciplined.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Desktop, Mobile and Tablet design experience across multiple formats.
- Passion for enterprise software, and making every day products beautiful.
- Prior management in a team leadership role.
