General Summary Description

Inspired Homes is currently seeking a New Home Architect to provide plan preparation for home building operations.  This is a critical position that is integral to the company’s aggressive growth goals in an opportunistic business environment.

Job Responsibilities

• The role requires a strong understanding of architecture, design and technical drawing skills.
• Candidates should possess the ability to work with our team to deliver exceptional residential projects from design to completion.
• Prepare detailed design and construction drawings, review for quality assurance.
• Experience assembling, submitting and revising information for municipal permitting
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of standard residential construction methods to prepare technical drawings, specifications, bid packages and manage construction costs.
• Coordinate project details between the design team and construction managers.
• Ability to communicate with clients, vendors, construction team, consultants, and contractors.
• Research materials and technologies and help to ensure project details support the design intent.
• Conduct construction site visits, field verifications and meetings with trades.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously to keep projects moving and on schedule
• Take initiative in continued learning of processes and systems to help our team with on-going process improvement and efficiencies.

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of professional experience in high-end residential design.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in architecture from an accredited university.
• Possess a high level of design creativity and technical skills to develop quality drawings.
• A collaborative team player with exceptional communication skills – written, verbal and visual.
• Highly organized, multi-tasked, with stellar time management and priority-setting skills.
• Self-disciplined and motivated, with the ability to problem solve independently.
• Proficiency and proven experience in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit MS Project, and MS Office. 
• Experience working with interior designers a plus.

Core Competencies

Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Integrity & Trust: Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful individual; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.

Planning: Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into the process steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; evaluates results.

Time Management: Uses his/her time effectively and efficiently; values time; concentrates his/her efforts on the more important priorities; gets more done in less time than others; can attend to a broader range of activities.

Conflict Management: Steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening; can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise.

Problem Solving: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.

Self-Knowledge: Knows personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits; seeks feedback; gains insights from mistakes; is open to criticism; isn't defensive; is receptive to talking about shortcomings; looks forward to balanced (+'s and -'s) performance reviews and career decisions.

Inspired Homes is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, national origin or any other legally protected status.