Architect

  • Full Time
  • Cardiff
  • Posted 5 days ago

Are you an Architect looking for your next challenge with a progressive and supportive employer with a triple bottom line? (People, Planet, and Purpose).

We have an excellent opportunity for someone eager to join our Cardiff team.

A bit about us

Stride Treglown is an employee-owned, carbon neutral architecture practice. We were the first of the top 100 UK practices to join the purpose-driven B Corp community.

We create long-term positive impact for our clients and the communities we help shape. We do this by designing better places, building resilient partnerships, and empowering people.

Our multidisciplinary team of over 300 architects, designers, and specialists deliver nationally significant projects from nine regionally embedded UK studios. Collectively, we offer our clients deep local knowledge and national specialist expertise.

We’re great team players who strive for excellence and care how we achieve it.  That’s why we promote design that isn’t driven by ego, but by purpose.

About you

This is a fantastic opportunity to use your design skills on a variety of exciting projects within a diverse and growing team, working with senior designers and technical team members to deliver your designs and progress your skills and career.

You will have:

  • A desire to create and deliver great buildings
  • At least 5 years post qualification experience working, including healthcare sector experience.
  • Professional experience working in a high-quality, design and delivery focused practice
  • Ability to manage multiple projects
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a large multi-disciplinary team, manage a small team, and work independently
  • Excellent drawing and presentation skills and the ability to explain a design idea and evolution of a concept
  • An ability to build rapport, create positive relationships and work effectively with others

Managing client relationships is key to this role and will include:

  • Becoming involved at any stage of the process and can effectively input with minimal briefing
  • Running multiple or complex projects start to finish, to the satisfaction of the client, in profit and on time
  • Taking the lead role in taking a project brief, developing initial proposals through to detail design (in conjunction with a small team)
  • Demonstrating an awareness of their own impact on others within other teams or business areas
  • Managing fees and invoicing for projects (with administrative assistance)
  • Contributing to winning new work
  • Generating good PR for the practice

Essential skills:

  • 5+ years healthcare sector experience
  • Educated to at least RIBA Part 3 level
  • Excellent communication skills
  • An understanding of the sensitivities when communicating with and presenting to clients
  • Ability to balance workload as the role will require you to focus on more than one project at a time
  • Strong Revit and Enscape skills would be an advantage
  • Demonstrable experience of collating and organizing design submissions, technical information, preparing drawings, plans, documents, reports and spec writing
  • Knowledge of Photoshop and InDesign

Desirable Skills

  • Knowledge of CodeBook and Activity DataBase

What we can offer:

  • Full-time hours
  • With mentoring, the opportunity to develop team leadership skills and responsibilities
  • Flexible work environment
  • A comprehensive benefit package
  • A contemporary working environment in an excellent location
  • A friendly, open and caring culture

If you would like to be considered, please include a;

  • Cover Letter explaining why you are right person for this role
  • CV covering your professional achievements and experiences
  • Portfolio that includes examples of your best projects to show us that you right person for this role.

Stride Treglown is registered as a Disability Confident Committed Employer. We are committed to changing behaviours and cultures with inclusive recruitment practices.  We believe that every individual irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, nationality, background, disability, or marital status can bring their full purpose to life.  We will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

You can apply via our website – you do not need to join or subscribe to any third-party websites.

We look forward to hearing from you.