New York Metro Higher Education Architecture Lead

AECOM is seeking a high-caliber, dynamic senior architect to serve as Higher Education Architecture Lead, in our New York City or Bloomfield, New Jersey office. The successful candidate will be a part of AECOM’s Building + Places Leadership team in New York Metro helping to win, design and lead teams of Architects on a wide range of higher education projects.

The Higher Education Studio Lead’s main responsibilities will include:

• Leading pursuits and working directly with the Managing Principal, Operations Director and collaborating with the AECOM engineering leadership.
• Providing a design-driven technical and management leadership approach.
• Supervising, recruiting, and promoting staff and intentionally embracing positive employee relations through all stages of employee success.
• Building strong relationships and interactions with clients, teaming partners, and stakeholders
• Collaborating with the other AECOM architecture practices around the Americas and sometimes globally.
• Overseeing and leading multiple transportation projects through all phases of design, and actively lead the design process for each of these clients and opportunities
• Working with Project Managers to define scope from initial project information and overseeing preparation of associated fee proposals, schedules, work plans and additional service requests as required
• Provide guidance and direction to ensure presentations and deliverables meet a high standard of graphic quality that exceed client expectations and advance the reputation of the firm
• Demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature architectural judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual structure/design problems, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for diverse activities
• Fostering a design culture in the studio and establishing, and encouraging, a collaborative environment for all project teams
• Participating in the annual performance review of employees, further developing staff skills and growth through open dialogue
• Actively participating in strengthening of AECOM brand in the greater New York City Metro region.
• Providing mentorship, coaching, and motivating project teams and individuals
• Becoming actively involved in organizations at the leadership level
• Promoting a fun and collaborative work culture

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture.

With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions.

Our teams have worked on signature projects such as the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy Framework, to the new plan for the LA2028 Olympics, to industrial facilities for GE and Rolls-Royce, to headquarters and workplaces for NASA, Unilever, Sony Music, DirecTV, Box, Inc. and many Fortune 500 companies.