Lead Architect

IPS-Integrated Project Services

$147K — $226K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of diversified architectural experience, including 8 years in a supervisory role
  • Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degree with NAAB Accreditation
  • Architectural Registration required
  • 8+ years of experience in the Life Sciences Industry
  • Strong knowledge of integrated systems design including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
  • General understanding of BIM workflows
  • Knowledge of applicable building codes and GMP cleanroom compliance

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Architecture Group staff and oversee daily operations
  • Ensure work quality and compliance with IPS standards and guidelines
  • Provide technical oversight for departmental outputs and project requirements
  • Implement risk management for staff projects and safeguard health and safety
  • Develop and enforce standards and tools for quality assurance
  • Prepare and support service proposals
  • Monitor project specifications and ensure timely delivery to clients
  • Break down project requirements to define scope, budget, and staffing
  • Review architectural documentation for regulatory and production compliance
  • Oversee construction administration and ensure design intent is achieved
  • Assist design teams with interpretation and execution of changes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and disability coverage
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Educational assistance programs
Full Job Description
Job Description

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 and/or 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 $147,000 and $226,000, 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 $140,000 and $215,000, 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.
  • Bachelor's 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
  • AIA/NCARB Membership/Accreditation.

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.

FTE
IPS offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and professional growth. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off, paid holidays, flexible spending accounts, and educational assistance.

PBE

IPS offers a benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance. Our offerings include comprehensive medical and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off.

Specialties

Process Architecture, Process Design, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Qualification, LEAN Project Delivery, Strategic Master Planning, Energy Conservation Management, Project Controls, Program/Project Management, Operations/Logistics Strategy and Planning, EPCMV, and Staffing Services.

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