Project Architect, Design and Delivery
We design buildings in Australia, manufacture them offshore and deliver them complete. Our drawings get built exactly as issued, several hundred times, by people we never meet and who cannot walk over and ask a question. This changes what documentation is. Precision counts for more than variety, and a detail that is nearly right is not one problem, it is three hundred.
We are looking for a project architect to take this on properly. Offsite construction is the part of Australian building the federal government is actively clearing a path for, which is why this position exists now rather than in two years.
Key responsibilities
Own the construction details and the standard set behind them
Produce the build package for each product, finished before production starts rather than during it
Brief engineering consultants and hold them to a programme rather than wait on them
Author and maintain the manual the factory builds from
Handle design issues coming back from the factory and from site
Travel to the factory floor a few times a year to watch your own details being built
Tell the Design Director when a brief is not good enough to draw from
Work mostly in Revit, uninterrupted, with no client presentations
About you
Revit fluency on day one
Contractor-side experience on design and construct, or documentation produced for a builder rather than for an approval
Five or more years documenting in Australia
Experience briefing consultants and holding them to a programme
Working knowledge of the NCC and relevant Australian Standards
Documenting for a factory rather than a site is a strong plus, not a requirement. Prefabricated, modular, facade and shop drawing backgrounds all count
Registration supported if you are working toward it
Probably not for you if
You want to be designing
You have moved from producing documentation into coordinating people who do
You would issue a package you knew was unresolved because the date had been promised
Where you need to be
Based in Southport. If you are elsewhere you are welcome to apply, we would just ask that the move and the travel to interview are your own arrangement. First conversations are by video.
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