Waggonner & Ball - Senior Architect

Waggonner & Ball, a Moffatt & Nichol Studio, is actively seeking an Architect to join our New Orleans, LA office.  The Senior Architect will be actively working with our staff and leadership team on projects across the United States.  This position leads a variety of assignments requiring the application of architectural techniques for a variety of projects. Evaluates, selects, and applies standard architectural design techniques, procedures, and criteria to make design adaptations and modifications.  

Waggonner & Ball is an internationally respected urban planning, design, and architecture firm 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.  

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 the transportation complexities associated with the movement of freight. The firm is currently ranked Engineering News Record #1 in the United States for Marine & Port Facilities and Top 20 for Transportation. 

Moffatt & Nichol's professional staff includes engineers, planners, economists, visualization designers, architects, landscape architects, and scientists 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. 

Duties and responsibilities: 

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

• Leads the development of creative design concepts for clients/projects. 
• Leads creative design direction during the conceptual and schematic phases of projects.
• Directs and/or prepares and produces CAD drawings to create and document architectural designs. 
• Interfaces with client on design issues and determines and develops architectural solutions. 
• Leads modifications and reviews of production drawings and construction documents; corrects and updates documents as required. 
• Leads development of solutions for basic design problems. 
• Leads master planning, site planning and building planning and design efforts and documentation development, utilizing 2-D and 3-D modeling and digital presentation packaging.
• Leads design computations, specifications, compile data for basic to complex architectural assignments.
• Collaborates with team members to advance the design concepts.
• Prepares finished material sample boards and graphic presentations for client approval.
• Coordinates with outside disciplines such as Civil, Structural, Electrical and Mechanical and other consultants with the architectural designs.
• Reviews building codes and conducts zoning analyses to ensure that designs comply with minimum legal standards.
• Ensures timely and effective management and delivery of drawings to ensure project goals and objectives have been satisfied.
• Stays current with graphic standards and building construction methods.
• Researches construction materials and systems.
• Performs other duties as requested by management

Other duties: 

Please note this job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree; required
  • Bachelor’s degree in Architecture; preferred
  • Master’s degree in Architecture; preferred
• 10+ years of architecture and design experience; required
• Registered Architect (RA) licensure; required
• Strong knowledge of design, trends, construction methodology, material application, and manufacturer-supplier appropriateness; required
• Business Development experience; required
• 5+ years of project management experience
• Software 
  • Mastery in Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe CC Suite; required 
  • Mastery of Rendering Software, Lumion and Enscape; preferred
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