Architect
About Quinn Evans
Quinn Evans is a nationally recognized architecture and design firm and recipient of the American Institute of Architects’ 2024 Firm Award. Our process is informed by the past to address today’s complex challenges and design our shared future. We are technical experts, caretakers, conveners, and listeners. We identify the solutions that best serve the community and the long-term life of a place. We bring expertise in cultural and sustainable stewardship to every aspect of our practice and projects. Our projects encompass a variety of project types including public sites, museums, and visitor centers, civic, performing arts, educational, and hospitality, to multi-family housing.
Team building is critical to our practice. Together, we create better work and more fulfilling professional lives. We do this through a culture that fosters constructive engagement leveraging a diversity of staff, practice, client communities, and points of view.
Be a part of a collaborative and diverse team that is designing ways for places and people to thrive today and tomorrow. Quinn Evans is one of the largest women-owned design practices in the country. We take pride in our diverse team and workplace culture. We emphasize leadership, innovation, teamwork, and professional development. We offer competitive compensation, a supportive hybrid work environment, and opportunity to make a difference through work on unique and impactful projects.
We contribute to and advance our profession through sponsorship and team member leadership positions. This includes the American Institute of Architects, Association for Preservation Technology, membership in the President’s Circle of the National Organization for Minority Architects (NOMA) and as a signatory of the 1.5°C COP26 Communiqué.
Job Description
Investigate, observe, and document existing building conditions, code compliance, accessibility, environmental issues and resource use; understand the existing facility's potential by assessing its spatial, structural, material, and aesthetic systems; devise treatments for areas of poor condition or performance in alignment with proposed program and use, historic preservation requirements, and occupant load in conjunction with new architectural interventions; design architectural interventions to accomplish new program, environmental performance, historic preservation, and accessibility goals; develop and convey accessibility goals and strategies that address accessible exhibition design requirements, and coordinate building infrastructure, systems and exhibition design elements to meet them; test, coordinate, and resolve building and system integration issues as part of an interdisciplinary team; utilize building information, modeling software, and parametric software to create 3D models of existing building and new interventions for analysis, design and documentation; identify critical design and technical issues, conduct research, and develop options in collaboration with other architects, engineers, and designers; coordinate building infrastructure and systems with exhibition design and technical issues, conduct research, and develop options in collaboration with other architects, engineers and designers; coordinate building infrastructure and systems with exhibition design and installation efforts; ensure that building systems locations and access requirements are compatible during construction as well as future operations; help identify technical conflicts between building elements and systems and participate in the development and implementation of integrated solutions; communicate with client representatives about project issues; manage stakeholder review processes and procedures for timely resolution of issues and documentation. As a national architecture firm, some travel as needed to project sites is required (10%).
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Employee Referral Program
Team Member recommendations are a wonderful way to find candidates for job openings. If you know someone who would be great for QE, encourage them to apply via our website and let a Team Lead and HR know. The candidate should mention your name when they apply. If they get hired, you receive a bonus
Salary Range Amount
$85,384
Quinn Evans is an equal opportunity employer, offering employment to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation/gender status, Veteran’s status, and disability. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage women and diverse applicants to apply.
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