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Voted Best Architectural Firm To Work For since 2018, Taylor Design, a 100% employee-owned company, is looking for Senior Healthcare Project Architects to join our San Diego office. This is your opportunity to work with a team of dedicated, creative, and fun architects and designers on award-winning projects.

The Senior Project Architect serves as the technical quality leader for the design team, with primary responsibility for the clarity, completeness, coordination, and quality of the architectural drawing set. This role requires strong technical expertise in architectural design, construction documents, construction administration, building codes, and project coordination, with particular focus on the healthcare and/or Science and Technology markets. The Senior Project Architect serves as the technical lead on multiple projects or one large project through construction, working independently while maintaining close coordination with the Project Manager or Project Director.

What you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or equivalent degree/educational experience.
• Registered Architect in the State of California.
• Minimum of 10-14 years’ experience in a professional architectural office setting.
• Experience in Health Care or Science and Technology a strong plus.
• Good to excellent Revit knowledge as well as MS Suite.
• Good to excellent working knowledge of CSI Master Format specifications.
• Excellent communication skills.

About the role:

• Set Consistency: Guarantees the overall clarity, completeness, and internal consistency of the entire architectural drawing set.
• Set Structure: Establishes and maintains logical sheet organization and drawing hierarchy.
• Coherence: Ensures absolute plan and section coherence across the entire set.
• Constructability: Anticipates contractor questions and answers them proactively within the drawings, ensuring the set can be built seamlessly by someone who was not in the design meetings.
• Drawing Strategy: Defines the drawing strategy early in the project lifecycle, identifying exactly which drawings must do the "heavy lifting."
• Detail Curation: Curates and determines which details must be project-specific versus where standard office details apply.
• Pre-QA Review: Conducts thorough personal and team drawing reviews before submitting documents for formal QA/QC.
• Zero Contradictions: Resolves all internal contradictions within the documents prior to any official issue date.
• Condition Description: Describes all key conditions using plan, section, and detail drawings; relies on visual clarity rather than notes alone.
• Consultant Coordination: Coordinates and solidifies architectural intent fully before handing backgrounds off to consultants.

What you will do:

• Workflow Management: Directs the daily production of design and construction documents, ensuring team tasks are completed efficiently and as planned.
• Resource Optimization: Partners with the Project Manager or Project Director to schedule resources effectively, utilizing a strong understanding of project staffing, budgets, and task timelines.
• Team Communication: Facilitates technical communication with consultants, contractors, sub-consultants, and the internal team to keep project data aligned.
• Code Resolution: Researches and resolves complex jurisdictional code issues to secure compliance and project approval.
• Material Research: Researches construction materials, assemblies, and details to support project execution and design intent.
• Standards Maintenance: Upholds and helps maintain firm-wide documentation standards, templates, and BIM application tools.
• Construction Support: Serves as a lead member of the Construction Administration team during the construction phase.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Oversee and supervise the technical work of team members within multiple project teams or a single large project team.

At Taylor Design, we’re humble—it keeps us grounded. We value an entrepreneurial spirit—it feeds our creativity. We put a premium on curiosity—it guides our future. Most of all, we believe in good design for the good of all.

We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. As an employee-owned firm, our staff understands what drives success. Every employee is positioned to think like an owner.

Important Notes:

Pay Comments: If you are hired at Taylor Design, your base salary is based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, experience, project complexity, and licensure and/or certifications. We believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.

Taylor Design is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

Please note that Taylor Design does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed contract, Taylor Design will not agree to pay any recruiter fee. In the situation an agency or recruiter submits a candidate or resume without a previously signed agreement and/or without Taylor Design's request, Taylor Design explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Taylor Design.