DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.
DLR Group's Charlotte Office has an opening for an Architect.
About DLR Group's Charlotte Office
DLR Group’s Charlotte office brings together an integrated team focused on elevating the human experience through design. While our work is grounded in Healthcare, Higher Education, and K-12 Education, our studio’s impact reaches even further and supports a diverse mix of sectors and project types across the firm. Through collaboration, research, and design excellence, our Charlotte team helps shape environments that strengthen communities, advance learning, and improve lives.
Position Summary
As an Architect at DLR Group, you will play a key role in various aspects of project development, working within established parameters. You will assist in creating and delivering project documents and collaborate with the integrated design team to ensure high-quality results. Your responsibilities will include adhering to project schedules, managing budgets, and following work plans to support the successful completion of projects.
As part of our integrated design team, you create buildings that elevate the human experience through design. You will partner directly with the Project Manager to ensure the financial health of the project, the quality of project documents, claim prevention, team collaboration and communication. Additionally, you will lead the cross-functional design disciplines in developing technical solutions.
If you are a collaborative thought leader with a strategic mindset this might be the position for you. DLR Group is 100% employee owned and as such you’ll enjoy the opportunity to have ownership in the Firm. We rely on all our employee-owners to apply their financial acumen to grow the Firm profitably.
What you will do:
- Conduct analyses of design, planning, and code studies, and generate related reports independently or with guidance as needed
- Design layouts and aesthetic features for basic architectural assignments
- Coordinate drawings and specifications with the specification writer and assist in preparing some sections
- Apply DLR Group practice standards to project assignments and develop comprehensive design and technical skillsets for material and construction techniques
- Participate in innovative idea generation within the team to achieve design excellence
- Understand and apply BIM standards to projects and develop organized work sets according to DLR Group standards
- Execute QA/QC procedures, resolve clash detection issues, and review and address comments from third-party QA/QC reviews
- Collaborate actively with the project team to generate design ideas and solutions
- Communicate effectively with project team members through written, oral, and visual means
- Seek new knowledge and skills by asking questions of peers and proactively share potential solutions
- Deliver project work on schedule to meet overall project deadlines and understand project work plans and target deadlines for each task
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Architecture (Graduate degree not required unless mandated by local licensure regulations)
- 3 to 5+ years of professional experience in architecture
- Professional architectural licensure (LEED AP and other certifications preferred but not required)
- Proficient in Revit, with knowledge of Bluebeam and core proficiency in standard architectural software
- Comprehensive understanding of conventional architecture, including knowledge of materials, methods, and tools for constructing or renovating small to moderately complex buildings
- Working knowledge of design techniques, tools, and sustainable design principles for producing precise technical plans, drawings, reports, and models
- Strong written, verbal, and graphic communication skills
- Ability to multi-task while maintaining high standards of quality and productivity
- Capability to assist in marketing and business development efforts
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DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.
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