Cordogan Clark
Architecture | Engineering | Construction | Interior Design | Planning
Aurora & Chicago, Illinois | St Louis, Missouri |Cleveland, Ohio | Lafayette, Indiana | Sawyer, Michigan |Davenport, Iowa | Madrid, Spain
Cordogan Clark is an award-winning full-service architecture, engineering, and construction firm with a 125-year legacy of designing and building innovative and functional spaces. With that legacy propelling us into the future, we are a team of 150 professionals across multiple locations and service categories who are committed to an innovative environment of cooperation, innovation, diversity, and inclusion.
We are committed to helping our employees achieve their career goals. As such, we offer our employees a variety of opportunities to learn and grow, including in-house training programs, conferences, and professional development workshops. We also offer regular performance review sessions to help our employees identify their strengths and weaknesses, and to develop plans to achieve these goals. In order to accomplish this progression, we provide opportunities to take on new challenges and responsibilities, and to advance within the firm. If you are a talented and motivated professional who is looking to join a team that is passionate about creating innovative and functional spaces, then we encourage you to apply to Cordogan Clark today and play a role in building our next 125 years!
Your Role
Cordogan Clark is looking to hire a Project Architect to join our team in Aurora, IL. This role is a full-time position for a degreed architect, licensed or working towards licensure, with 10 or more years of full-time experience specifically in the planning and design police, fire, public safety, emergency operations, justice and civic facilities. The ideal candidate will be inquiring, detail-oriented, and an active listener, with strong communication skills, and will work collaboratively with all project partners to be an active design participant within an award-winning architecture, engineering, and construction services firm.
Responsibilities include master planning, space programming, and facility planning support, development of design concepts and detailing into a complete set of construction documents, the coordination of components designed by engineers and other consultants, assistance in clarifying the design intent throughout the bidding and negotiation phase, and assistance throughout the construction phase including the approval of submittals and resolving construction conflicts. The position requires strong communication skills and the ability to coordinate work between our design team and others such as contractors, utility companies, and the authorities having jurisdiction.
This is a hands-on position that will require the ability to create and present design concepts and subsequently assist with the production of high-quality construction documents as needed for competitive bidding purposes. The role requires on-going project support throughout the bidding and construction phases. Our clients often require us to meet with them outside normal business hours, i.e., evenings and occasionally on weekends. The position may occasionally require travel (many hours in duration) to the client’s location, jobsite and/or overnight visits to meet their expectations.
Specifics of Your Role
- Assist Senior Managing Architects in all phases of project development.
- Work collaboratively with clients, architectural staff, engineers, and consultants to develop creative design concepts and manage project scope to meet project goals and budgets.
- Provide quality control and assurance of schematic design, design development, and construction document phases.
- Guide project efforts, administrative and technical, to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective execution of assigned projects.
- On-site construction administration and site inspection visits to assess the quality of the work.
- Interpret, organize, execute, and coordinate assignments.
Required Qualifications
- Accredited degree in Architecture with the goal of licensure.
- 10 or more years of relevant experience in architecture, including demonstrated experience on complex public safety projects.
- Proficiency in BIM 360/Revit design platform.
- Solid understanding of a wide range of computer applications used in a professional design office: Microsoft 365 suite of products, Adobe suite, Bluebeam, and familiarity with 3D programs SketchUp, Lumion, Enscape, etc.
- A strong work ethic and a drive to exceed client expectations.
Featured Benefits
- Participation in the company’s comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and short-and-long term disability insurance plans.
- Pre-tax reimbursement accounts for both childcare and health care purposes.
- Participation in the company’s 401k Plan, which includes up to a 3% discretionary match.
- Personal Time-Off (PTO).
- Reimbursement for travel and business-related expenses.
- Eligible for Performance based bonus plan.
- Paid Holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday (1/2 day), Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving (Thursday & Friday), Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve.
Salary $95,000-$125,000
Cordogan Clark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
