If you enjoy working in a collaborative and multicultural environment and are looking to advance your career, we’re looking for experienced and enthusiastic architectural technologists to join our growing international practice, (a World Architecture 100 firm), in Winchester or London.
We offer a hybrid approach to working, two days a week in the office and three days a week working from home. Core Hours 9.30am – 3pm. This is in line with our flexible working policy. A large proportion of our work is based in the UK, so candidates need to be willing and able to travel to these locations for site visits as required.
Benefits include:
- Paid professional subscriptions related to the role
- Paid employee referral scheme up to £1,000
- Opportunities to take sabbaticals
- Private pension contributions
- Opportunity to work from other Hyphen offices
- Enhanced parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Biannual appraisals
- Learning and development opportunities
- Increased annual leave with length of service, starting at 23 days
- Paid eye tests
- Workplace pension scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
Hyphen values:
- We work as One Hyphen
- We stand for excellence
- We have integrity
- We challenge and expect to be challenged
- We are forward-facing
The role
As an architectural technologist at Hyphen, you should be able to lead and manage architectural projects through all RIBA work stages with relative independence.
The ideal candidate will be an intermediate/advanced Revit user and proficient in technical software’s relevant to architectural design such as AutoCAD, Photoshop (or similar) and Microsoft office.
Please note: An in-person Revit test will be required prior to offer stage.
Academic experience
- Degree in Architectural Technology or similar, Accredited by CIAT
- Valuable Masters degree
- ACIAT membership eligible
- Member of the (Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologist, UK).
Qualities and skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good organisational skills to manage deadlines and competing priorities.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Analytical capability with strong attention to detail.
- Curiosity and dedication to self-development.
- Ability to work independently, to take initiative, investigate solutions and make decisions.
- Strong problem-solving ability.
- Ability to prioritise workload to meet deadlines and budget costs.
- Ability to multi-task and adapt.
- Excellent detailing skills.
- Willingness to mentor and support junior staff members.
- Ability to take ownership and responsibility of own work.
Project responsibilities
- Lead a team in the technical delivery of commercial, data centre, retail, residential or industrial projects.
- Conducting activities and producing outputs in line with relevant legislation and industry standards including drawings, schedules, specifications and reports independently.
- Undertake surveys and site visits to monitor works, producing detailed drawings, minutes and reports as required.
- Lead in the production of Building Control, Planning, landlord and other statutory applications.
- Lead the design team and client meetings, produce detailed meeting minutes.
- Manage sub-consultants and incorporate their design input as necessary.
- Manage construction contract administration through the pre-construction, construction and close-out phases.
- Manage pre-construction Health and Safety in line with CDM 2015 where Hyphen are acting as Principal Designer
- Management of the construction tendering process.
- Review drawings from other internal and external team members and produce mark-ups where necessary.
- Demonstrating commercial awareness and knowledge of project management, including cost/time, budget implications, the recording and recovery of additional fees for design variations.
- Supervise and mentor project team members.
- Maintain appropriate project reporting through the Rapport system.
- Adherence to Hyphen Quality Management System (QMS) and Technical Standards at all times.
- Other tasks as reasonably required from time to time.
Non-project responsibilities
- Ad hoc administration duties.
- Attend and contribute to office team meetings.
- Keep up to date with the work of the office and company as a whole
- Develop appropriate understanding of UK legislation, planning, construction and health and safety.
- Attend and contribute to office arranged CPD sessions.
- Manage personal CPD.
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If you feel that Hyphen is a place where you can contribute your best work, be proud of your achievements and see your career develop we’d love to hear from you.
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