Architect – Senior Level

Waggonner & Ball, a Moffatt & Nichol Studio, is hiring a Senior Architect in New Orleans. Join a dynamic, collaborative team where you'll lead innovative design across diverse projects, drive workflow and tech integration, mentor emerging talent, and help shape client relationships and new business opportunities. 

About us: 

Waggonner & Ball is an internationally respected urban planning, design, and architecture studio with an interdisciplinary practice committed to creating resilient landscapes, buildings, and communities. Our projects span all scales from buildings and sites to regions with a focus on water, culture, and history. As a Moffatt & Nichol design studio, we collaborate with clients and partners across the country from our home in New Orleans. 

Moffatt & Nichol is a leading U.S.-based global infrastructure advisor specializing in the planning and design of facilities that shape and serve our coastlines, harbors and rivers, as well as an innovator in transportation. For the 4th year in a row, Moffatt & Nichol is Ranked #1 in Engineering News-Record for Marine & Port Facilities in the U.S. Additionally, our firm consistently ranks in the Top 100 Pure Designers in the US and the Top 50 Designers in International Markets.  

Moffatt & Nichol's professional staff includes engineers, planners, scientists and architects who serve our global client base from offices in Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. The firm provides clients worldwide with customized service and a level of excellence that have become the firm’s hallmark in several primary practice areas – ports and harbors; coastal, environmental and water resources; urban waterfronts and marinas; transportation, bridges and rail; inspection and rehabilitation; and energy.  

Together, we deliver beautiful, holistic solutions to the most critical climate challenges of our time.  

Essential functions: 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. 

• Leads development of design concepts for clients/projects
• Directs preparation of drawings to create and document architectural designs
• Interfaces with client son design issues and develops architectural solutions
• Leads development of production drawings and construction documents
• Manages design analysis and compilation of specifications for basic to complex architectural assignments
• Manages team collaboration to advance design concepts
• Manages coordination of outside disciplines such as Civil, Structural, Electrical and Mechanical and other consultants
• Reviews building codes and conducts zoning analyses to ensure that designs comply with minimum legal standards
• Establishes budget, task schedule, and other components of the project work plan
• Ensures timely and effective management and delivery of drawings
• Works closely with project architects with respect to budget and schedule constraints
• Assists others with project deadlines as available
• Facilitates knowledge of current graphic standards and building construction methods
• Guides and monitors production workflow activities on all studio projects; conducts technical and design reviews
• Adheres to our Quality Management System
• Performs other duties as requested by leadership

Project Delivery / Technology implementation: 

• Develops and manages project delivery workflows for architectural work
• Assists all project teams in model setup and maintenance as appropriate
• Assists with resource management and planning for architectural projects
• Develops, executes, and maintains firm wide library of standard details, etc.
• Provides project data analysis
• Leads technical working group discussions about production best practices

Staff Development: 

• Acts as mentor by coaching and motivating design teams and individuals; fostering an environment of mutual respect and trust among members of the group as it grows and develops
• Assists in preparation and delivery of design staff evaluations, responsible for performance development and workload allocation processes of department
• Participates in interviews and recruiting professional staff
• Encourages staff exploration and innovation to achieve project design excellence and continual improvement
• Fosters and maintains a collaborative professional working relationship with management and project team members
• Participates inappropriate professional and client-oriented organizations,