Design to Finish ArchitectVantegral Consulting

• Overseeing, directing, and coordinating project design from start to finish, to ensure high quality, innovative and functional design
• Liaising with the construction professionals about the feasibility of potential projects
• Promoting teamwork, setting performance indicators, and ensuring a culture of high performance among team members
• Overseeing the practicality of project designs.
• Creating building designs and highly detailed drawings both by hand and by using specialist computer-aided design (CAD) applications
• Producing detailed workings, drawings, and specifications; specifying the nature and quality of materials required
• Managing new building designs, extensions, alterations, restorations, and conservations from the earliest stages right through to completion. The goal is to match client’s needs and to produce sustainable, functional, and aesthetically pleasing designs.
• Producing detailed blueprints and make any necessary corrections.
• Ensuring that all works are carried out to specific standards, building codes, guidelines, and regulations.

Basic Skill Set:

• Strong portfolio to prove artistic skills.
• Expert knowledge of building products, construction details and relevant rules, regulations, and quality standards
• Excellent drawing skills and familiarity with design software (Adobe Photoshop, SketchUp, 3d Studio VIZ or similar)
• Strong imagination and the ability to think and create in three dimensions
• Visual awareness and an eye for detail.
• Communication and project management skills
• Proficiency in site layout, grading, utility design, erosion control, regulatory approvals
• Ability to think methodically, to design, plan and manage projects
• Ability to maintain an overview of entire projects while continuing to attend to detailed technicalities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Negotiating, supervisory and leadership skills combined with the ability to delegate.
• An in-depth understanding of Total Quality Management in construction.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture. Masters is an added advantage.
• 6 - 8 years' experience as an Architect.
• A professional Certificate in Project Management, Architecture, Civil Engineering, or any other related field.
• While an understanding of construction terms, scheduling and planning concepts are mandatory, experience in process redesign, and analytical skills are valuable.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Excellent organizational, presentation and interpersonal skills.