Continuum Architects + Planners is a small but bustling Milwaukee-based design firm. With a current staff of 18, we are a tight-knit group of design professionals who value individualized professional growth and career development for our staff. At Continuum, you are not navigating layers of hierarchy. Instead, we encourage and enable our team to proactively solve problems, collaborate holistically, and collectively elevate our design solutions. To that end, we also encourage staff to take on leadership roles to advance design and technical topics for internal team growth. Our culture applauds decision-making and creativity, resulting in excellent design and project delivery, as well as rewarding employees.

Our portfolio includes multifamily & mixed-use housing, higher education, corporate offices, and historic consulting. We are currently looking for a Registered Senior Project Architect with 8-10 years of experience working in this industry to join our team. The ideal candidate will be a self-driven, motivated individual with experience in multifamily/mixed use housing and/or higher education project types.

In this role, the candidate will be expected to:

• Seek creative and innovative solutions to assigned tasks and develop appropriate technical and code research to support these solutions.
• Be able to present technical knowledge in client meetings.
• Take on planning and execution of projects from inception through completion, developing design and technical solutions throughout all phases of a project.
• Prepare schematic design, design development, and construction documents, develop solutions, and work directly with internal team members and coordinate with external engineering team efforts.
• Collaborate with team to ensure the project deliverables are coordinated, integrated and support the design concept and performance goals of the project.
• Provides technical design input. Responsible for a project’s technical design effort, subsequent detailed design development, project coordination and quality control efforts during all phases of project work, in close collaboration with Lead Designer.
• Maintains awareness of evolving building technology and systems. Expected to be proficient in Revit and follow Continuum Revit standards and best practices.
• Reviews shop drawings, material samples and CD’s for conformance with design.
• Performs construction administration duties (e.g. RFI’s, RFP’s, change orders, etc.)
• Prepare reports and specifications; reviews completed reports, plans, cost estimates and calculations.
• Executes applicable agency review analysis (accessibility, zoning, life-safety, etc.)
• Maintains contact with clients, consultants, and contractors during all project phases, participating in marketing, client and owner presentations as required

Additionally, this candidate  should have :

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited Architecture program
• Highly proficient in Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite required

In addition to a casual, flexible in-office work environment, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package and paid time off.

 Continuum will offer a $5000.00 Signing bonus to qualified candidates.

Interested candidates should send their cover letter, resume and portfolio to Falamak Nourzad;  falamak.nourzad@continuumarchitects.com

Please submit your portfolio or work samples.

Note: Applications submitted without a portfolio will not be considered.

About Continuum Architects + Planners

Established in 1996, Continuum Architects + Planners was born out of a desire to provide high design without compromising meticulous attention to detail. For us, architecture is an investment in the future, a belief in great things to come. Our design philosophy extends beyond the bounds of the physical building to include the users and the community impacted by the design. Continuum’s approach to design is to carefully balance the pragmatic and the visionary, pairing meticulous project planning with inspired creativity. We call it intelligent optimism. We intentionally work with clients who want to enhance the built environment and on projects that uplift the communities in which they are located. We understand that how places and spaces are planned, programmed, designed and built presents an opportunity to inspire hope, and our process reflects that.

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