Architect (Heritage Projects)

Job description / Role

Architect (Heritage projects in Al Ula KSA)

Faithful + Gould are looking for an Architect in Al Ula, KSA for large heritage project.

Responsibilities
- Technical management of a team
- Front end design work and planning
- Client, Employer and Stakeholder Liaison
- Supervise the Concept, Prelim and Detail Design documentation
- Supervise the work of external 3D Visualisers
- Prepare and deliver presentations
- Assist with bid proposals and presentation of bids
- Preparing and presenting feasibility reports and design proposals to the client
- Involvement with Value Engineering
- Supervise the preparation of applications for planning and building control departments
- Supervise the preparation of tender documents for contracts
- Site Inspections and Construction Support
- Resolving problems and issues that arise during construction
- Keeping within financial budgets and deadlines
- Coordinating with contractors and other professionals
- Controlling a project from start to finish

Requirements

Essential Requirements
- Relevant Heritage experience in large mixed use projects.
- Qualified Architect with at least 5 years post qualification experience
- Design & New Build experience
- Good all round experience from front end to delivery
- Good understanding of ME Buildings Codes
- Experience managing teams
- Client and stakeholder facing experience
- Site Experience
- Design and Build Experience

Desirable Experience
- LEED AP
- Middle East Experience
- Sketch up
- REVIT
- AutoCAD

The Individual
- The right candidates would be pragmatic, intuitive, well organised and creative.
- Will work as a member of a team and be expected to contribute to team performance and demonstrate use of initiative
- Must be able to manage a large team of staff and work to tight deadlines
- Keep calm under pressure

SNC Lavalin's Faithful+Gould business is one of the world's leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients' interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting - and then developing - brilliant

people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It's precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

Acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, we also have an extensive depth of geographic exposure across 50 countries and the breadth of 53,000 experts. As one of the largest engineering contractors, we have access to 17,000 staff in the Middle East making us one of the largest multidisciplinary consultancies in the region.

Rewards & Benefits

We offer an excellent package which includes:
- A competitive salary
- Transportation allowance
- Medical and life insurance cover
- 22 calendar days annual leave
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Company gratuity scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin

About the Company

SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.