Senior Designer, Sports

DLR Group's Sports practice has an opening for a Senior Designer. We operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.

About Sports at DLR Group

The DLR Group Sports practice designs facilities to recruit and develop the best athletes, attract and retain top coaches, and to create memorable experiences for today’s fans. Our solutions support our client’s mission, promote their culture, and elevate their brand. The Sports Studio strives to be a valued partner while creating a vision that elevates our client’s organization to a championship level through design.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Designer at DLR Group, you will collaborate with our cross-functional design teams to develop designs from conception through design development, prepare construction documents, specifications, team coordination, and support the project team through construction administration for a variety of project types and sizes. As part of our integrated design teams, you will create buildings that elevate the human experience through design.

You will partner directly with the Project Manager to ensure the financial health of the project, the quality of project documents, claim prevention, team collaboration and communication. Additionally, you will lead the cross-functional design disciplines in developing technical solutions.

If you are a collaborative thought leader with a strategic mindset this might be the position for you. DLR Group is 100% employee owned and as such you’ll enjoy the opportunity to have ownership in the Firm. We rely on all our employee-owners to apply their financial acumen to grow the Firm profitably.

The successful candidate will:

• Provide planning, design, and coordination of different size projects up to large complex projects.
• Independently apply advanced architectural concepts and designs as well as carry out complex or novel assignments requiring the development of new or improved techniques and procedures.
• Engage and guide innovative idea generation within the integrated team in pursuit of design excellence.
• Review cost estimates for alignment with the design.
• Provide technical guidance to less experienced design / architectural staff.
• Responsible for applying DLR Group practice standards to project deliverables across the project team.
• Demonstrate a strong foundation of comprehensive design and technical skillsets.
• Engage and guide innovative idea generation within the integrated team in pursuit of design excellence.
• Actively lead project and integrated team collaboration by generating design ideas and solutions.
• Effectively communicate with project team members through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• Engage peers and specialty experts to proactively develop holistic solutions.
• Participate in client presentations.
• Meet deliverable deadlines to maintain the overall project schedule.
• Manage time in alignment with project workplan.
• Understand construction and material costs in alignment with the project budget.

Required Qualifications: 

• Ten or more years of professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience on collegiate and/or major professional sports stadia, arenas and training facilities.
• Professional Degree in Architecture from an accredited program.
• Proficiency with computer drawing, modeling, and rendering software; advanced Revit and Bluebeam experience is required.
• Positive and entrepreneurial spirit underlined by a strong work ethic.
• Desire to continually learn, grow, and pursue design excellence in a fun environment.
• Proficient in executing technical drawings and construction documents.
• Experience with exterior architecture in addition to full coordination and integration with Interior Design and Engineering disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Licensed Architect and NCARB certified.
• Sustainability Certification/Accreditation (LEED, WELL, etc.) and a demonstrated interest in sustainable building design
• Skilled in hand drawing techniques that communicate visually.
• Knowledge of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and parametric design software, such as Grasshopper and other modelling softwares such as  SketchUp
• Proficiency with visualization software, such as Lumion or Enscape
• Knowledge of QA/QC process and building codes