Architect | Higher Education

Market: Higher Education

Location: Charlotte, NC

FLSA: Exempt

Work Mode: Monday - Friday; 8:00 - 5:00; In-Office Monday - Thursday; Hybrid (remote or in-office) Friday

Employment Type: Full-time

At BHDP, we design innovative and inspiring solutions in architecture, interior design, and experiential graphic design to create more informed design solutions for our clients and communities.

Role Summary

The Architect III is a strong technical leader who elevates project outcomes through disciplined coordination, clear documentation, and mentorship. This role helps translate design intent into buildable, well-coordinated deliverables by anticipating risk, aligning consultants and internal teams, and driving quality and consistency-supporting successful results for clients and project teams.

Responsibilities

• Leads effort to deliver results across multiple projects, ensuring consistent quality, coordination, and milestone readiness while carrying design intent, Success Criteria, and code/life-safety strategy through to constructible drawings and spec intent.
• Drives issues to verified closure through active QA/QC (self and team) and documented cross-discipline coordination to prevent recurrence at later milestones and during CA.
• Breaks projects into clear work assignments and follows up to ensure timely, complete, high-quality delivery.
• Coaches and delegates through actionable redlines/markups, feedback and brief check-ins to drive project quality to verified closure, with fewer repeat errors, improved cycle time, and increased independence across the team.
• Identifies complex coordination, constructability, and code/life-safety issues early, and develops options with creativity and clear trade-offs tied to Success Criteria, design intent, and project constraints.
• Escalates high-risk items, documents key decisions, drives consistent implementation across the deliverables, and converts lessons learned into reusable improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Works with others and cooperates effectively with the project team and consultants to reconcile design intent with constructable, coordinated deliverables, while communicating clear status, roadblocks, and next steps with predictable follow-through.
• Provides actionable peer review input and ensures review comments are tracked and closed prior to issuance.
• Maintains a rolling look-ahead across projects, prioritizes effectively, and keeps assigned teams and deliverables milestone-ready without last-minute delivery.
• Identifies scope/schedule risks early with clear recovery options and protects fee and schedule by reducing rework through early coordination and disciplined QA/QC follow-through to confirmed completion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Architecture degree (NAAB accredited program preferred)
• 9+ years in the design and/or architecture industry
• Licensed Architect
• Advanced Revit knowledge - independently deliver defined drawing packages/projects and teach others on best practice.
• Advanced knowledge of production-ready visualization capabilities (SketchUp, Enscape, Lumion).
• Demonstrated capability to delegate, coach, and raise team performance
• Demonstrated initiative; sees challenges as opportunities
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration within a team
• Models professional workplace behaviors: reliable follow-through, constructive feedback, and calm, solutions-oriented communication with co-workers and clients

Physical and Mental Demands

• Sustained attention to detail
• Sitting/standing
• Occasional lifting of 20 pounds or less
• Ability to work in an open office environment

Life at BHDP

Our comprehensive benefit package includes a competitive salary, medical, dental, vision, disability, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, paid time off, and a 401(k), which aligns with our commitment to rewarding our high-performing professionals.

BHDP Architecture is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

The mental and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.

This position description is prepared to provide a general understanding of the responsibilities of the position and does not include a comprehensive list of activities, duties, success factors, or responsibilities that are required for a specific employee. Success Factors, duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified or augmented at any time with or without notice.