Design Architect - Healthcare

Job Description

At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you’ll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact.

In this role, you will be responsible for the production of innovative, appropriate, cost effective, designs, drawings and specifications in your discipline for assigned projects. Additionally, you will manage professional registration and signs/seal documents prepared under your supervision.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conceptual Design
  • Utilizes innovation in design and methods.
  • Develops design concepts, recommends systems and produces pricing and proposal documents and outline specifications.
  • Researches and is responsible for discipline design compliance with proposal/client criteria.
  • Establish Discipline basis of design.
• Detailed Design
  • Analysis Ability
    • Researches, documents and is responsible for discipline design compliance with all applicable codes, ordinances, standards and regulations.
    • Designing for Safety incorporated into drawings.
  • Detailing
    • Comply with the QIP.
    • Uses Haskell standards and procedures.
    • Coordinates work with other disciplines, including outside consultants as applicable. Performs interdisciplinary coordination check to minimize deficiencies, errors and omissions in drawings and specifications.
  • Leads the production of well-organized, finished drawings of good appearance, accuracy, clarity and correctness.
• Construction Documents
  • Signs and seals design documents when assigned as Professional of Record.
• Construction Support
  • Reviews applicable shop drawings and submittal data for compliance with construction documents.
  • Advises and assists Construction Project Managers, Superintendents and Subcontractors in the interpretation and clarification of construction documents.
  • Participates in construction observation to monitor compliance with design intent, construction drawings and specifications. Prepares inspection reports and punch lists.
  • Provides solutions to field problems, responds to RFI's and prepares field orders and addenda.
  • Leads production and archiving of record drawings and specifications.
• Planning/Scheduling
  • Projects, monitors and informs design manager of workload status of project discipline staff.
  • Participates in project strategy meetings.
  • Participates in creation of overall key date schedule, including permitting schedule.
  • Creates discipline work plan for assigned projects.
• Profitability
  • Prepares man-hour estimate for discipline work.
  • Assists Design Manager in monitoring costs of discipline-related outside consultants.
  • Participates in team review to assure discipline scope is covered in project budgets, estimates and subcontractor bids.
• Project Management
  • Directs technical efforts of discipline staff assigned to the project.
  • Monitors discipline adherence to strategy, key date schedule and work plan.
  • Assists in coordinating information with and monitoring discipline-related outside consultants.
  • Monitors workload status; advises design manager.
  • Prepares Meeting minutes and other communications in coordination with design manager.
  • Mentoring of assigned staff.
• Travel
  • Travel up to 30% as required.

Education & Years of Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture required plus 8 years of industry experience. Degree from accredited curriculum (NCARB or ABET) preferred.
• Registered Architect (RA), NCARB Certificate, LEED AP BD+C, and/or ACHA certification preferred.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• Professional degree in architecture and active architectural license.
• 8+ years of architectural experience, including 3+ years on healthcare projects, with demonstrated responsibility as a Project Architect or technical lead.
• Experience developing and coordinating projects through design, construction documents, permitting, and construction administration.
• Working knowledge of healthcare planning, applicable building and life safety codes, accessibility requirements, and FGI Guidelines.
• Ability to prepare and coordinate code analyses, life safety plans, construction details, and specifications.
• Proficiency in Revit and experience coordinating multidisciplinary BIM models.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate architectural work with MEP, structural, civil, medical equipment, and other specialty consultants.
• Experience with renovations in occupied facilities, including phasing, operational continuity, and infection prevention considerations.
• Ability to lead drawing production, review work for quality, manage deadlines and task budgets, and mentor junior staff.
• Strong communication skills with clients, clinical stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and reviewing authorities.
• Ability to participate in site visits and travel as project needs require.
• Preferred Qualifications:

  • NCARB certification and ability to obtain registration in additional states.

  • Experience with hospitals and technically complex clinical spaces, such as surgery, imaging, emergency departments, or sterile processing.

  • Experience with state healthcare licensing reviews and certificate-of-need project requirements, where applicable.

  • Experience with CMAR, design-assist, or design-build delivery.

  • LEED AP BD+C or ACHA certification.

At Haskell, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, professional development opportunities, and more. Join us and be part of a team where your contributions make a difference.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, team members may be required to visit alternate locations and therefore must have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to do so. This position requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information. The team member isfrequently required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities:

Haskell will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

Haskell is a Drug-Free Workplace, and an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.