Industrial Architecture Lead

We're looking for a hands-on highly skilled industrial architect to own the facility architecture and building design requirements for our titanium and zirconium production facilities. This is a critical technical leadership role where you'll translate process, operations, safety, logistics, and maintenance requirements into practical industrial building designs. You will act as AAM's owner-side architectural lead, working closely with EPC partners responsible for civil and structural execution while making sure the facility is buildable, code-compliant, maintainable, safe, and ready to support first-of-its-kind advanced materials production at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural scope for pilot, demonstration, and commercial-scale materials production facilities

• Translate process and operational requirements into building layouts and facility requirements

• Define and review architectural basis of design, building programs, room data sheets, adjacency plans, circulation concepts, envelope requirements, life-safety concepts, egress strategies, and occupancy assumptions

• Serve as AAM's technical owner for architectural interfaces with EPC firms, specialty consultants and authorities having jurisdiction

• Review EPC and architect-engineer deliverables for technical quality, code compliance, constructability, maintainability, operational fit, and long-term flexibility

• Drive facility design decisions for industrial buildings with demanding cleanliness, ventilation, corrosion resistance, hazardous-material handling, fire/life-safety, and process-containment requirements

• Support permitting, code analysis, fire protection strategy, hazardous occupancy analysis, accessibility, environmental interfaces, and authority-having-jurisdiction reviews

• Lead constructability, operability, maintainability, and value-engineering reviews that reduce facility complexity without compromising safety or plant performance

• Support construction, commissioning, punch-list resolution, turnover, and early operations as the architectural owner's representative

• Build AAM's internal facility architecture standards, design review practices, drawing expectations, preferred partners, and execution playbooks

Qualifications

• 8+ years of architecture, industrial architecture, architectural engineering, or facility design experience in chemical plants, semiconductors, mining, metals, energy production or other highly demanding industrial environments

• Proven success working in large capital projects with extremely fast turnarounds

• Proven success leading or reviewing architectural scope from front-end engineering through detailed design, construction, commissioning, or facility startup

• Bachelor's or higher-level degree in Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field

• Strong understanding of building layouts, life safety, egress, fire separations, building envelopes, equipment access, material/personnel flows, HVAC interfaces, maintenance access, clean/dirty area separation, and operational support spaces

• Experience reviewing architectural drawings, building plans, specifications, room data sheets, code studies, submittals, RFIs, field changes, and construction packages

• Familiarity with IBC, IFC, NFPA, OSHA, accessibility requirements, hazardous occupancy concepts, industrial ventilation interfaces, and local permitting processes

• Strong practical judgment about constructability, building systems, material durability, corrosion resistance, coatings, maintainability, field sequencing, and commissioning risk

• Very high proficiency in Revit or similar BIM systems

• Working experience with Solidworks, AutoCAD or other CAD systems is a plus

• Registered Architect, P.E., NCARB certification, or experience as an owner's architectural representative on a major capital project is a strong plus

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $185K - $260K

Significant equity compensation aligned with public benchmarks for senior early team members

Your actual compensation will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: location, job-related knowledge and skills, education, and demonstrated prior scope and experience.

We offer comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, company 401(k) and other benefits. We have a flexible paid time-off (PTO) policy