Architectural Technician

Purpose of the role: Providing skilled technical support to the project team.

Reporting to: Project Architect, Senior Architectural Technologist and Partners.

Overview of the role: Typically working as part of a project team under the direction of the Project Architect and/or Senior Architectural Technologist, working in the production of BIM models and generating technical details.

Operational duties and responsibilities (across all RIBA Workstages):

• Drawing and sketching architectural and interior design solutions by hand.
• Answerable to BIM Manager and producing BIM Execution Plans.
• Producing complex and detailed architectural drawings from the ARCHICAD model.
• Producing schedules from the ARCHICAD model.
• Document control of incoming third party material.
• Document control of design information for external issue.
• Independently developing 2D technical construction details.
• Independently researching appropriate products, materials etc.
• Drafting NBS specifications, researching products and construction methods.
• Participating in, and contributing to, team meetings and design workshops.
• Participating in, and contributing to, internal CPD presentations.
• Operating standard internal project management and administrative systems.
• Providing general assistance in the office.
• Complying with Health & Safety, Employment and Environmental Policies.

Qualifications:

• Professional Degree in Architectural Technology.
• Committed to a career in architecture, with clear professional goals.
• Enthusiastic, conscientious and committed.
• Aware of practice administrative procedures and contractual responsibilities.
• Aware of responsibilities under RIBA, CIAT and ARB Codes of Conduct.
• Aware of duties under CDM Regulations.

Technical Skills:

• Competent and skilled at using: Mac OS, ARCHICAD, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, NBS Chorus, Notion, Fresh Projects, iTaskX.

Personal Attributes:

• Represents the practice professionally and competently.
• Communicates well with clients and other collaborators, quickly establishing a strong rapport.
• Recognises potential issues before they become a problem; communicates promptly with senior colleagues.
• Helpful, reliable and friendly; approachable with a positive attitude; sensitive to others.
• Co‑operative and receptive to feedback.
• Provides constructive feedback to colleagues.

Management:

• Takes personal responsibility and is accountable for own actions.
• Ensures no task is undertaken without first agreeing a 'SMART' brief.
• Aware of the Pareto Principle and able to implement its lessons.
• Organised and tidy; comfortably meets agreed deadlines.
• Aware of the quality - cost - time triangle and able to adapt approach to suit.
• Provides technical support to colleagues.
• Understands and is engaged with the practice's vision and contributes towards achieving its goals.
• Practises business development skills, recognising the importance of developing these for future success.
• Proactively seeks new opportunities to expand personal and professional development and willingly shares new‑found knowledge and skills with colleagues.

Sector Skills:

• Understanding of the built environment, core & additional building processes.
• Responsible and accountable, ensuring "good" engineering practice.
• Documentation and reporting for information and knowledge within the practice.
• Software and systems that are part of an industry standard BIM workflow.
• Office and BIM‑process control, transfer & building and structure operation of design‑work.
• Practice information associated processes and data management.
• Lay local knowledge of materials, cross disciplines.
• RIBA network relationships.
• Familiarity with finishing schedule, specification, NBS, building regime and rationale for wiring and BMS.
• Reading & understanding diagrams and building service elements within the baseline design concept.
• Office management functions and system recommendation.

Knowledge:

• Understand how people, clients and culture respond to high quality deliverables.
• Select graphic expressions for a strong brand.
• Injecting content and flexible frames.
• Recovering through critical assessment.
• Guided learning and evaluation of workplace charters, and skill development.
• Processing & reporting on change, conflict and improvement patterns.
• Working across functional and disciplinary boundaries with various stakeholders to achieve an outcome of a well connected and collaborative outcome between 2 processes.
• Using proven processes to analyse, create and manage customer requirements, objectives, and designed system innovations.
• Creating relevant, small, specialized or high potential solutions to buildings with progressive or disruptive building theory.
• Facilitate critical issue control across skill levels and promotes organisation.

Experience:

• Experience in building information modelling practice using either existing initiatives and newer established processes.
• Understood and applied best practices for creating multidisciplinary designs.
• Established clear methods for collaboration with all levels of design teams.
• Recognised the possibility of minimal time of failure to ensure proper system integration.
• Facilitated a strong harmonious architecture overall approach.
• Full understanding of building standard for sunlines and skin units emission effect.
• Lead scheduling workshops and coordination and partner requirements, product selection or architectural design cooperation & reloading implementation.