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Role: Chartered Architect
Location: Bristol
Sector: Property & Construction
Salary: Upto £70,000 + industry leading benefits package
Carriera is working with a leading property and construction consultancy based in Bristol who are currently recruiting for a chartered architect on the RIBA register or Senior principal designer with CMAPS/IMAPS/APS who will champion the design and the Building Safety Act 2022 regulations for the office.
The successful candidate will be working on a diverse portfolio of residential, education, mixed use, care home, healthcare, commercial and regeneration projects across London and the South East. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Principal designer/Architect to join a forward thinking medium sized consultancy who are going through an exciting period of growth.
The Senior Principal Designer will carry out duties in accordance with the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA), working with Housing Association and Local Authority clients. This will include delivering all Principal Designer services directly for clients on residential property, including Higher Risk Buildings (HRB) as follows:
Duties
- Ensuring that the design team has the necessary competence and experience to set out their duties.
- Ensure that the design work complies with all relevant Building Safety requirements
- Review the Building Safety Case for the building
- Attend design team meetings and client meetings in accordance with the agreed programme and scope of work
- Monitor design work in accordance with project implementation process and the Building Safety Case
- Review existing design, plans, specifications and documentation related to compliance with the Building Regulations
- Ensuring that any changes made to the design are properly assessed and approved by an agreed Change Management Regime
- Obtain written consent from designers/ consultants that their designs are compliant with the relevant Building Regulations
- Prepare and submit a signed competence declarations
Eseential skills
- Excellent Principal Designer or Design
- Management/Architectural experience
- Leadership skills in co-ordinating
- Design Teams
- Proactive
- Excellent Client facing skills
- Provide training to Clients and Colleagues
Benefits
- Salary up to £70,000 per annum
- Discretionary bonus incentive
- Pension contributions
- Private medical insurance
- 28 days holiday (incl. Bank Holidays)
- 3-4 days during Xmas period (at Directors discretion)
- 1 day off for birthday
If you are interested in the role please contact Alex Harcombe on (phone number removed) for further information.
Carriera Limited values diversity and promotes equality and no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from all sections of society and are open to discussing any reasonable adjustments or additional arrangements you may require to support your application. All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. When advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business for the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003. All applications will be held in strict confidence and in accordance with our privacy policy.
