Lead Architect

Job Description

At IPS you will apply your knowledge skills and passion to make a difference in the lives of people by solving complex challenges related to pharmaceutical biotech and animal health research and manufacturing facilities. We are looking for a dedicated Lead Architect to join our talented team at our office in Somerset Cherry Hill New Jersey Blue Bell Pennsylvania or Germantown Maryland.

In this role you will provide leadership of the technical discipline and direct the day-to-day operational activities of any assigned Architecture Group staff.

Additional Responsibilities

• Ensures the quality accuracy and completeness of overall work as to engineering compliant with established IPS standards procedures codes and ordinances.
• Responsible individual for the quality of unit output related to adherence to stated project goals as well as legal and IPS guidelines and efficiency.
• Contributes technical input and oversees technical output of department andor assigned group staff to assure compliance with legal regulatory and IPS project requirements.
• Protects IPS corporate welfare through the application of prudent judgment and implementation of risk management techniques while maintaining supervision over all health safety and welfare risks associated with the group staff projects.
• Develops and assures implementation of standards and tools to ensure department output meets or exceeds established quality and performance expectations.
• Prepares proposals for service and supports the preparation of proposals by others.
• Ensures project specifications are delivered with company quality standards and are delivered on time as required by the client.
• Assesses the requirements of a project breaks a project into tasks and works with a Project Manager to determine the scope of work budget and staffing.
• Reviews drawings and documents to assure compliance with company regulatory agencies and production standards.
• Provides oversight for architectural construction administration activities such as preparing bulletins construction sketches submittal review and RFI responses.
• Ensures acceptable levels of quality and checks for coordination of work to ensure documents reflect design intent and necessary coordination.
• Assists the design team with design solutions by having the ability to interpret drawing mark-ups and executing changes on the project based on such mark-ups.
• Reviews contractor application for payments.

For applicants located in the state of New Jersey the salary offered for this role is between 147000 and 226000 but the actual salary offered is dependent on experience skill set and education.

For applicants located in the state of Maryland the salary offered for this role is between 140000 and 215000 but the actual salary offered is dependent on experience skill set and education.

Qualifications & Requirements

• 10 years of diversified architectural experience at least 8 years of which have been in a supervisory or management capacity consisting of planning designing and construction of engineering projects.
• Bachelors Degree Bachelor of Architecture B.Arch. degree with NAAB Accreditation.
• Architectural Registration.
• 8 years of Life Sciences Industry experience.
• Exceptional experience and knowledge of process mechanical structural civil electrical plumbing and fire protection system design and knowledge of how these systems integrate into architectural design.
• Possess a general understanding of BIM workflows.
• Knows applicable building codes.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of building design including both building and GMP cleanroom compliance experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• AIANCARB MembershipAccreditation.

Travel duration if any is based on project complexity and location.

This position is a safety-sensitive position.

The employee is designated for field work and attends activities at client sites where they work in construction process packaging manufacturing research or other non-administrative areas.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About Us

IPS a Berkshire Hathaway company is a global leader in technical consulting architecture engineering procurement construction management commissioning qualification and validation services for technically complex facilities. Integration is how we think and work. It requires the ability to unite existing and emerging technologies into a process that reliably delivers products and accelerates speed to market. That end-to-end mindset allows us to be agile and anticipate challenges as we move projects toward operational readiness. IPS applies design and delivery expertise client-side experience and supplier-side insight to every project. We infuse our curiosity our passion and our commitment to partnership in delivering solutions at any scale. We meet our clients where they are and get them to where they need to go. Thats only possible when we care as much as our clients do.

Specialties

Process Architecture Process Design Engineering Construction Commissioning Qualification LEAN Project Delivery Strategic Master Planning Energy Conservation Management Project Controls ProgramProject Management OperationsLogistics Strategy and Planning EPCMV and Staffing Services.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at IPS without regard to race creed color religion national origin sex age disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression genetic predisposition or carrier status veteran marital or citizenship status or any other status protected by law. IPS is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

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