Specifications Coordinator

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $23.50 to $28.50 per hour, based on experience and tenure

Position Specifications Coordinator

Similar Recent professional or non-professional architecture graduate or current student, with 1 to 3 years architecture experience, or other responsible architecture experience.

About us M.Thrailkill.Architect is a dynamic and growing firm providing specification writing, product and materials research, and document review to architecture firms who desire a high level of collaborative, client interaction. Our design-centric mission is to provide architectural specifications and other project services. This involves regular collaborative design team engagement, which enlivens our consulting experience, strengthens and enriches our client relationships, and adds variety to our work experience.

Job Summary We are looking for a highly collaborative, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic Specifications Coordinator. The right applicant is passionate about contributing to our clients design and documentation process while gaining a foothold in the industry at an engaging and diverse company involved with a broad variety of projects and clients. Our Specifications Coordinators are recent architecture graduates who develop an open and engaging rapport with our team, regularly meet with our clients (virtually and in-person), maintain a high level of quality control and consistency in our work, and act as willing collaborators, avid learners, and strong technical resources to the rest of our office.

Why here? Were involved in a much wider range of project types than most architecture firms, including multi-family housing and hospitality; primary, secondary and higher education; health care, laboratory and tech infrastructure; airport and train transportation; and civic and government projects. Very few firms are so broadly involved and working on so many projects.

Our office is directly engaged in exploring, evaluating and implementing the highest levels of sustainability, working closely with others in our region, the most advanced in the country. The specifications we develop for our clients projects lead the nation for healthy products, energy savings, environmental sensitivity, life-cycle assessment, and carbon capture.

As a Specifications Coordinator, you will meet directly with the project teams at our nationally known clients on a regular, often weekly, basis. Our clients award-winning projects are located throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as California, New York, Northern Virginia, South Florida and various overseas regions.

We invest in our employees lives and capabilities, with a very comprehensive benefits package and full support of training, testing, and accreditation for architecture licensure as well as many design and construction industry memberships and certifications, including AIA, NCARB, LEED and CSI.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the preparation of architectural specifications alongside our Specifications Assistants, under the direction of our Specifications Writers, and in collaboration with our architect-clients design teams; you will be working on three to eight projects simultaneously.
• Assisting with the review of clients project drawings and other documents to coordinate product and material requirements, annotations and acronyms, including the incorporation of client-specific standards, youll be directly involved in the specification production and editing process and the publishing of Project Manuals.
• Assisting with maintenance and improvement of our baseline specifications with the rest of our staff, including investigating best-practices, maximizing sustainability criteria, and improving coordination, youll participate in the assessment, improvement and updating process first-hand alongside other staff.

Compensation and Benefits

Qualifications Required = 3; Preferred = 2; Encouraged = 1

At least one previous work experience in an architecture or interior design office is encouraged; one to two years of part- or full-time work in such an office is preferred.

A Bachelor of Arts or Science degree in Architecture (BA or BS in Architecture) is encouraged; a Bachelor or Master of Architecture (BArch or MArch) is preferred, or...

Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite applications, email and file management tools is required.

Application Requirements

Cover letter explaining why you are the right candidate for this position

M.Thrailkill.Architect will recruit, hire, promote and transfer qualified persons into all job classifications without regard to race, color, national origin or citizenship status, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or veteran status.

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