Senior Site ID Architect

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The Senior Interior Design Architect is responsible for managing the DSA Site Supervision team, for the interior design scope, ensuring compliance with construction & Employer contracts and quality standards while managing the pre-engineering and associated synchronization process and effectively coordinate with various stakeholders and facilitate successful project delivery.

Job Accountabilities

• Managing and supervising the DSA Interior Design Site Supervision team, which may include Assistant ID Architects, ID Inspectors, document controllers, and other admin staff.
• Coordinating all Designer Architects, and sub-consultants interior design site supervision team’s tasks and duties in accordance with the Construction & Employer contract requirements and DSA work QA & QC work procedures.
• Construction Contract requirements and compliance (Obtain copy and familiarize yourself with the requirements of the contract for all ID site supervision duties)
• In acting out the duties herein the employee is to follow and implement all relevant company and project work procedures.
• Establish / Obtain at the project outset
• Contractor pre-start activities
• Overseeing the implementation at the site or project office of general office tasks, housekeeping and document control, ensuring that the ID site team comply with all the agreed procedures (the list below is not definitive but is the basic requirements)
• Utilizing of computer software for the document and drawing control, If available and per the contract’s requirements eg Primavera Expedition.
• HR Duties / Supervision of Assistant ID Site Architects, ID Inspectors and other staff
• Maintaining a full set of ID Design drawings, schedules, specifications etc.
• Maintaining a set of Client Instructions. Contractors verbal instructions. RFI’s and their responses. Submittals and their responses (pre-engineering).
• Maintain a Daily diary, which should include : Weather. Inspections and testing carried out (on and off site). NCN’s & Site Observations raised. Contractors’ resources. Key events, meetings, client visits. New activities started.
• Mail administration
• Correspondence : Prepare and issue letters and other notices, responses etc to the Client, Project Manager, sub-consultants, Contractors and the like. All critical and sensitive issues are only to be issued after consultation with the Project Architect. Record poor performance and improvement notices on sub consultants, after consultation and coordination with Project Architect. Respond to PM, Client on any raised issues. Formal correspondence is to be per the lines of communication agreed with the Client / Project Manager.
• Meetings : QA / QC & Technical meetings, Contractors Progress meeting – usually chaired by the Engineer or PM, where attendance is a must, Deliverables meetings, Miscellaneous workshops, Contract Close out progress meetings, Minutes of meetings, which are chaired by DSA
• Full preparation is required in advance and prior to attendance at meetings to ensure that responses and status reports can be given against the various actions and design issues which the consultant team is responsible for.
• Quality Control / Inspections of Contractors’ work in progress
• Request and approve the contractor’s documentation in advance of the works starting
• Inspection requests and Inspections
• Off-site tests and Inspections
• Progress records and photographs
• Contractors’ queries (RFI – Requests for Information)
• Receive the Contractors queries, contact and coordinate with the appropriate design consultant and prepare and issue responses in a timely manner. Response time to be in compliance with project specifics.
• Maintain tracking and record logs, working closely with document controllers (as appropriate), and issuing weekly.
• Site Observations (CSO)
• Non-Conformance Notices (NCN)
• Establish procedures and issue forms to be used.
• Issue NCN’s to the contractor as required, using photographic evidence.
• Monitor and close out NCN’s as required.
• Maintain and distribute a tracking schedule / log.
• Work Instructions (CSI)
• Written site instructions given post contract are to be properly referenced and documented.
• Work Instructions are to be issued via the PM or the Fidic Engineer.
• Verbal instructions can be given (but this should not be the norm).
• Where verbal instructions are given, then a “Confirmation of Verbal Instruction” should ideally be given to the contractor by a Consultant Site instruction or are to be requested from the Contractors in a timely manner, ensuring the correct date for issue of the instruction is recorded.
• Instructions which vary the works are not to be given on shop drawings, or RFI’s or submittals unless a Site Instruction is issued in parallel.
• Site Housekeeping and Site Safety
• Review of Contractors payment applications
• Contractors’ programs : Review and respond with comments.
• Review of Contractors progress reports, Review and respond with comments.
• Value engineering : Review and respond with comments, taking a proactive attitude to savings without compromising the project quality, lifespan or design intent.
• Change Management : Supporting RFC Administrator and Project Architect for the expediting of all technical and commercial responses required for each change management item.
• Design coordination and implementation
• Local Authority Approvals
• Project Close out, working closely with the Client, PM and Contractor
• Request and approve Contractor’s.
• Close out program and method statement, which is to include
• testing and commissioning, NCR closure, snagging / de-snag program activities.
• Training
• Operations and maintenance manuals.
• As built drawings.
• Preparation of reports for Taking over certificates.

Qualifications / Experience / Requirements

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Architecture and Planning, Engineering Services

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