What are the responsibilities and job description for the Architectural Designer position at DLR Group?
DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you're in the right place.
Our Phoenix studio has an opening for a Architectural Designer . We operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.
Position Summary
As an Architectural Designer at DLR Group, you will be responsible for developing designs from conception through design development, preparing construction documents, specifications, and team coordination, and supporting the project team through construction administration for a variety of project types and sizes. As part of our integrated design teams, you create buildings that elevate the human experience through design.
What you will do :
- Propose creative technical solutions to design challenges while ensuring design excellence
- Adhere to quality assurance / control processes and company practice standards
- Contribute to project deliverables, ensuring alignment with project schedules and deadlines
- Conduct design analyses, layout designs, and code studies with some independent work
- Perform basic architectural tasks, including layout and aesthetic feature design
- Coordinate drawings and specifications, assisting in preparation of specific sections
- Apply BIM standards and develop organizational cartoon sets for projects
- Execute quality control procedures and resolve clash detection issues
- Actively collaborate with the project team to generate and communicate design ideas
- Continuously seek new knowledge and skills, proactively sharing potential solutions with peers
Required Qualifications :
Preferred Qualifications :
DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
We are 100% employee-owned : every employee is literally invested in our clients' success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values - commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork - we elevate the human experience through design, together.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / M / F / Veteran / Disabled employer.