Project Architect

Overview:

- The role involves coordinating and managing design tasks for the Design Department, including consultants and stakeholder management.

- Conducting and analyzing design quality, functionality, engineering, statutory considerations, constructability and deliverable completeness. It also includes internal design studies, research, commercial and legal analysis.

- The role oversees low rises and hi rises, urban planning and landscaping.

Main Responsibility:

1. Design Process Management:

- Guide projects from design vision to tender documentation, support throughout construction

- Define timeframes, aspirations and documentations requirements with consultants

- Prepare project reviews for compliance with objectives, costs, efficiency, user experience and aesthetics

- Conduct technical reviews on design criteria, performance, engineering coordination, and statutory issues

- Provide commentary on design deliverables for executive presentations

- Asses design changes and recommend actions

- Support marketing collateral for project launches

2. Project Schedule, Reporting, Coordination:

- Elaborate and make approval of the project schedule and milestones, in coordination with other departments

- Create roadmap for weekly project progress

- Prepare progress reports for executive review

3. Request for Proposal:

- RFP to be prepared by shortlisting competent and appropriate consultants, with budget approval of the services, schedules and organization of the work

- RFP to be inclusive with the necessary information from the Project Development Brief and the design requirements or suggestions taken from the Design Brief

4. Design Brief and Assessment:

- Assessment of lands and plots, including physical characteristics, location and context, visibility, access, circulation, etc.

- Creating a detailed design brief, incorporating product objectives, social- cultural-economics and commercial information, project and context description, all relevant background information and related documents, and defining the key design objectives and technical criteria.

- In coordination with the Project Management Department, list a set of detailed infrastructure, engineering, delivery or statutory considerations to be included in the design brief.

5. Research and Development:

- Conduct research on urban and product design (smart technologies, mobility, sustainability, amenities)

- Develop and refine departmental systems (guidelines, templates)

- Support on development briefs, budgets, and cost analysis

6. Support the Definition of Development Briefs and Budgets:

- Assist on various aspects of the development brief documents, including project positioning, development statistics targets, and project programme

- Support in information of design, infrastructure, engineering and key topics and consideration that have impact on the development strategy

- Support the commercial department for cost benchmarks to ensure suitability of targets

- Master or Bachelor degree in architecture or similar in state universities, local or foreign

- Professional certificates of Urban Planning, Architectural and Project Management are a plus

- Training or courses in business or real estate could be useful.

- Minimum 5 years experience in design of commercial and residential in foreign leading consultant firms

- Minimum 2-3 years with leading developers in project development/management, with in-dept experience of hi-standing built projects

- Versatility across design disciplines, with skill in presentation

- Knowledge of technical requirements of buildings, planning and civil works. Project management & construction knowledge and statutory authorities are a plus.

- Professional English level

- Proficiency in design software: AutoCAD, PowerPoint.