Senior Designer - Architecture

Overview

You don't have to be an employee long before you understand the SSOE difference. It goes back to our history of reinventing ourselves for new markets, serious rates of growth year after year, and being ahead of the curve in technology. Those are the achievements of a company that rewards talent and effort in ways that mean the most to the individual.

When you work at SSOE, you work with the best and you're a part of something bigger than yourself. And providing the best possible workplace for our employees gives us a competitive advantage-helping us attract and retain top talent and drive better business results.

AI and Innovation

At SSOE, we don’t just talk about the future, we build it. As a leader in industry AI adoption, we empower our team to work smarter by providing responsible access to the industry leading AI Large Language Models, vibe-coding platforms, and securely integrating advanced tools into every role. From day one, you’ll receive the training and support needed to leverage AI as a core tool for enhancing productivity, sparking creativity, and streamlining complex workflows.

Responsibilities

The following duties are typical of the position but are not all encompassing. Responsibilities include those required to deliver quality service on schedule and within budget in a team environment.

• Interprets, organizes, executes, and coordinates large assignments with overall responsibility for budget adherence, quality control, and inter-discipline coordination.
• Makes decisions independently on design problems, practices and methods.
• Represents the firm in meetings and conferences to resolve important questions and to plan and coordinate a project.
• Serves as a job captain on single and/or multi-discipline projects.
• Understands other discipline's needs and requirements and relates them to own discipline and total project scope.
• Prepares studies and schematic (conceptual) designs for new systems and analyzes operation of existing systems.
• Works with code officials, and other design professionals, in interpretation or exception to codes.
• Assigns and reviews work of project design team. Checks progress of work and alerts project manager to changes of scope or additional services.
• Writes scope of work for design based on preliminary review and meetings with external customers.
• Assesses the requirements of a project, breaks a project into tasks and works with management to determine scope of work, budget and project staffing needs.
• May be requested to perform in a project management role.
• May check portions, or entire, completed drawings.
• May serve in chosen discipline as a staff advisor or consultant in the role of technical specialist requiring highly specialized knowledge and skills and the use of advanced techniques.
• Travel required.
• Valid driver's license required. May be waived for international assignments

Qualifications

• Associate Degree or certification of completion of other post secondary training in engineering or architectural fields preferred.
• Minimum twenty (20) years of designer experience.