Waggonner & Ball, a Moffatt & Nichol Studio, is actively seeking an Architect and/or Landscape Architect to join our Northern California team. Waggonner & Ball is an internationally respected urban planning, design, and architecture firm with an interdisciplinary practice committed to creating resilient landscapes, buildings, and communities. Our projects span all scales from buildings and sites to regions with a focus on water, culture, and history. We are a community of designers who create architecture and environments sensitive to context, time and place. We believe that designing for resilience requires Living with Water and building with nature. We are a cross-disciplinary design practice specializing in adaptation planning, resilient landscapes, institutional architecture, and historic preservation. As a studio within Moffatt & Nichol, a global engineering and infrastructure advisory firm, we streamline design, engineering, and construction services to deliver beautiful, holistic solutions to the most critical climate challenges of our time.
Moffatt & Nichol is a leading U.S.-based global infrastructure advisor specializing in the planning and design of facilities that shape and serve our coastlines, harbors and rivers, as well as an innovator in the transportation complexities associated with the movement of freight. For the 3rd year in a row, Moffatt & Nichol is Ranked in Engineering News-Record for Marine & Port Facilities in the U.S. Additionally, our firm consistently ranks in the Top 100 Pure Designers in the US and the Top 50 Designers in International Markets. We were also named Southeast Design Firm of the Year 2023.
The ideal candidate will have the following key attributes:
- Experienced in institutional and civic architecture, landscape, and urban design
- Strong communication (verbal, written and presentation) skills and ability to work with a team approach
- Ability to think at multiple scales, is strong at problem definition and project scoping
- Appreciates natural systems, understanding infrastructure, and can develop built form (structures, landscapes, parks)
- Entrepreneurial spirit, a motivated self-starter to grow the practice
- Strong understanding and commitment to quality
- Energized to be social and client facing
- Collaborative team player that can effectively work between disciplines to achieve multi-disciplinary work
- Position for and successfully pursuing strategic contracts
- Appreciation for life-long learning and sharing knowledge and teaching others
- Process awareness with an eye toward creativity and innovation
- Understanding the cultural continuum including historical context for the purpose of building for now and into the future
- Has an appreciation for the conjunction of infrastructure and place
- Ability to approach emerging technologies and its transformative aspects including ability to incorporate innovation into projects and the design process
Duties and responsibilities:
- Lead the design process from conception through development of construction documents
- Coordinate with architects, landscape architects, urban designers/planners, engineers, and other disciplines as required to deliver projects
- Manage subconsultants and construction services throughout project lifecycles
- Coordinate activities with Waggonner & Ball New Orleans Studio
- Coordinate closely with business managers and technical leaders in the company to advance initiatives
- Perform periodic site visits and attend client meetings as required
- Perform project management duties
- Attend and lead client meetings including development of meeting minutes
- Lead the implementation of quality control and quality assurance on projects
- Build relationships with existing and new clients
- Participate in projects pursuits / opportunities including positioning, team building, proposal writing, interviewing and contract negotiation
- Mentor and train architecture, architecture, and urban design staff
- Actively participate in initiatives to grow the team as required through hiring
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture or Landscape Architecture, required; Master's degree, preferred
- Professional Licensure in CA or the ability to obtain via reciprocity within 6 months, required
- 8-15+ years of experience in architecture and/or landscape architecture
- Proven ability to design, implement and manage both small- and large-scale projects and studies
- All new hires will be required to successfully complete and pass a pre-employment (post offer) background check in compliance with NIST 800-171
- Moffatt & Nichol uses E-Verify and employment is contingent upon the legal ability to obtain employment in the U.S. and to present the required documentation at hire