Associate/Senior Associate (Architectural)
About this role
Your Responsibilities
Oversee all aspects of the project, including design, technical compliance, contracts, and execution. Ensure project aligns with cost, resource plans, and quality and regulatory standards. Lead, manage, and review pre-design work and feasibility studies, site, and zoning analyses.
Design and design development: Collaborate closely with the Design Director and team to develop conceptual and detailed architectural designs, materials specifications, and ensure alignment with client’s briefs, budgets, and timelines.
Project Documentation: Drive design development, dealing with architectural layout, details, materials, specifications, contract documents for project tenders.
Team Supervision and Development: Guide, supervise, and coordinate the project team and assigned team members to ensure timely and objective-aligned project delivery. Provide support and direction.
Stakeholder Liaison: Lead coordination and communication with clients, consultants, contractors, and internal team members. Chair and attend necessary meetings to maintain project alignment and to resolve issues.
Regulatory Compliance and Quality Assurance: Ensure project compliance with relevant codes, standards, and regulatory requirements. Oversee the preparation and submission of required documentation for approvals. Direct Technical Officers in regulatory compliance matters Implement and monitor practice and processes to ensure quality delivery.
Project Administration: Prepare fee proposals, contracts, and manage project payments. Keep the project within budget and on schedule.
Project Coordination: Coordinate technical aspects of the project with consultants and oversee the preparation and review of construction documents and drawings. Conduct site inspections and ensure documentation aligns with project specifications.
Additional Responsibilities: Take on additional management support tasks as necessary, drive collaboration between project teams, and perform other project-related duties to support continuous improvement and project success.
Pre-requisites and Preferred Qualifications
At least 8 to 12 years of relevant experience.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture or a Graduate Diploma from accredited institutions.
Experience with healthcare projects - hospitals, nursing homes, or other medical facilities is preferred. Candidates with experience in commercial, hospitality, and institutional buildings are also preferred.
Shows a deep understanding of local building codes, planning parameters and, standards, especially for healthcare projects.
Capable of leading project teams and resolving issues quickly and effectively throughout project development.
Exhibits strong analytical capabilities coupled with effective management skills.
A collaborative and strategic thinker, focused on achieving optimal project outcomes.
Possesses excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
Demonstrates the ability to manage time efficiently to meet challenging deadlines and client requirements.
Creative with a keen sense of aesthetic judgment.
Well versed in AutoCAD, Revitt and other 2D or 3D drawings, software, also Adobe suite, and Microsoft Office.
Candidates will be considered for either Associate or the Senior Associate commensurate to their experience.
Real Impact, Made Together
SAA is a member of the Surbana Jurong (SJ) Group, a diverse and collaborative collective of problem solvers for the built environment, continually reimagining ways to create a smart and sustainable future.
As one of SJ’s 10 member companies, SAA is part of a global network of professionals in more than 120 offices in over 40 countries.
How to apply
Please click on the “Apply” button and attach your latest CV/resume and portfolio (for Architects only) before submitting your application.
To find out more about SAA, please visit our website at https://saaarchitects.com.sg
At Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively. Join us in making a positive impact on the world!
Company at a glance
Surbana Jurong Group is a global urban, infrastructure and managed services consulting firm, with over 70 years of track record in successful project delivery. Headquartered in Singapore, the group has a global talent pool of 16,000 across Surbana Jurong and our member companies AETOS, Atelier Ten, B+H, KTP, Prostruct, RBG, SAA, Sino-Sun and SMEC, based in more than 120 offices in over 40 countries. They include architects, designers, planners, engineers and other specialists driven by progressive thinking and creative ideas to help shape a better future.
Our technical experts deliver sustainable solutions that cover the entire project life cycle from planning and design, through to delivery and management, as well as decommissioning and closure. We provide a full suite of multidisciplinary consultancy services across a diverse range of sectors that includes aviation, healthcare, hospitality, transport, energy, water and environment.
Surbana Jurong has built more than a million homes in Singapore, created master plans for more than 30 countries and developed over 100 industrial parks globally. Our tag line “Building Cities, Shaping Lives” expresses how every project or undertaking is, for the Group, an opportunity to fulfil aspirations and enrich lives. By designing and delivering quality housing, work spaces, roads, rail, hydropower, dams, underground and coastal protections and other critical infrastructure needed by our clients, we are redefining cities and transforming them into sustainable and liveable spaces where communities and businesses, present and future, can thrive.
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