Designer - Architecture - Senior

Your Role

Gensler’s Beijing office is seeking an experienced Architectural Designer to join our team. You will have Revit capabilities and be responsible for initiating the technical solutions to best meet the client and design briefs. You will be experienced in handling the technical process, with excellent communication and team relationship skills, and the ability to understand and interpret both the client, designer and contractor’s needs and requirements.

What You Will Do

As an Architectural Designer, you will tap into your creativity to design unique professional environments, providing technical support for completion and execution of projects, working on all project stages.

• Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously working with the team to design and deliver major projects for professional and financial service companies and other corporates. These can be architecture and interior design projects.

• Experience in the design and delivery of workplace design projects is essential

• Manage project lifecycle; estimating, bidding, project kick-off, weekly coordination, punch/snagging lists, turnover, opening, and project close-out

• Support communication between project team, clients, vendors, contractors, consultants, and building and permitting officials

• Provide technical guidance and innovative solutions to resolve complex technical and design challenges 

• Maintain project manual and specifications

• Conduct and document site visits, process submittals, substitution requests, and RFI’s during construction

• Have a proactive, problem solving attitude and be able to work closely with the wider consultancy team to develop innovative technical design solutions

Your Qualifications

• An undergraduate or Master’s degree in Architecture

• Minimum 7+ years post qualification professional work experience

• Fluency in both Chinese and English is essential to the role

• Registered Architect in China would be beneficial

• Experience in project leadership, excellent client liaison and team management skills

• Knowledge of China building regulations, codes, standards and building structures

• Ability to develop collaborative relationships across the firm, with clients, and with other key constituents

• Proficiency in Revit preferred

• Experience with the full project lifecycle

• Ability to understand how buildings are constructed and to create technical documents that succinctly describe the work to be done

• Strong leadership, organizational, communication and relationship-management skills

Life at Gensler

As part of the firm’s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programmes as strategic investments in our future.