Lead Architect
Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC)
Total years of experience :15 years, 8 Months
Leadership and Management
- Provide supervision, guidance, and leadership on all architectural design, procurement and technical matters.
- Brief team members on project specifics and lead a necessary induction to insure successful completion of their tasks to meet project targets.
- Supervise, support, and follow up with senior design engineers to ensure design objectives are proceeding according to plan.
- Monitor project progress and prepare reports for management addressing significant deviation in manpower budget expenditure along with recommendations for corrective action.
- Attend technical and management meetings with end-users to determine and finalize client and stakeholder requirements.
- Prepare Minutes of Meetings.
- Develop and maintain an effective client and stakeholder relationship. Communicate with client and site personnel to ensure that all design, construction, and installation deliverables are addressed and resolved.
- Maintain, develop, and propose modifications to engineering and procurement policies and procedures to improve quality and efficiency of designs while coordinating and consulting with Quality Assurance.
- Administer and partake in recruitment, training, and development of staff.
- Issue recommendations and lessons learned for each project upon completion to enhance performance and raise awareness of peers.
- Manage and guide junior and design engineers to carry the Architectural Design and Procurement tasks.
Engineering, Procurement and Site Support
- Provide and develop the groundwork in the estimation phase of new prospective projects.
- Develop conceptual drawings and bill of Quantity (B.O.Q) based on Projects’ functional requirements document for Project Cost Estimation.
- Revise and update project functional requirement documents as per the approved requirements.
- Identify project documents both receivables and deliverables and arrange requisition, availability, and accessibility through librarian and document controllers.
- Prepare and develop the Engineering Delivery Registers (EDR).
- Contributing in prepare project Basis of Design and Specifications.
- Review and revise interdisciplinary design and technical issues to ensure that the most accurate, effective, and efficient design is adopted.
- Prepare Technical Queries and Concession Requests.
- Plan and coordinate all project activities including the provision of design and technical information, ensuring accuracy, completeness and submittal within schedule using the allocated manpower budget.
- Constructed conceptual designs to produce detailed designs that are coordinated and free from clashes.
- Prepare complete design submissions for statutory approvals.
- Maintain and complete records related to external and internal audit documentation to meet project requirements and Company Design and CAD Standards.
- Proposing technical solutions for the clashes and site problems.
- Developing, reviewing and checking all Architectural drawings including:
Working Drawings.
General drawings.
Block work and Plaster work layout.
Preparing tiling layout shop drawings & details.
As-Built drawings.
Preparing design for the landscape, proposing the materials and providing all related details coordinated with Vendors.
- Coordinating all landscape works with the infrastructure and all underground utilities to avoid clashes.
- Providing planting details along with all required fixtures and fittings.
- Manage and complete all procurement activities including: identifying required equipment to successfully complete projects, preparing associated material requisitions (MR), assessing technical bid evaluation (TBE), approving purchase orders, reviewing vendor documentation prior to manufacturing, issuing manufacturing documentation to client.
- Reviewing and approving Vendors/suppliers shop drawings.
- Supervise external sub-contractors for specialized designs and coordinate their interface with project design aspects.