Since 1956, our practice has focused on designing timeless, beautiful, sustainable architecture. We seek a talented, self-motivated, full-time Specifications Writer and QA/QC Manager who desires to help us continue our thoughtful, contextual design legacy. Candidates for this position must have worked on a minimum of 5-10 medium to large-scale architectural projects as a project architect or specification writer and be able to demonstrate a strong interest in executing highly detailed architecture.
A career at FFA means joining a collaborative team that strives for creative solutions and design excellence. We believe in cultivating relationships with our clients by consistently providing outstanding service and working with multiple client types across our market sectors. You will excel at FFA if you communicate clearly with clients, consultants, and colleagues, think critically about design opportunities, and have excellent management, design, and communication skills. As you will work with multiple project teams, you must be a strong collaborator and problem solver and function as a technical resource across the office.
Our Community Agreements outline our firm culture and our commitments to one another.
At FFA, we are deeply committed to responsible resource use and understand the crucial role of the built industry in combating climate change. Our practice is dedicated to providing clients with practical, resilient building strategies and striving for loftier sustainability goals. We are looking for candidates who share our mission, and the ideal candidate will have experience in working on highly sustainable buildings.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

• A Bachelor of Architecture degree from an accredited institution or relevant work experience
• Project architect or spec writer experience on at least 5-10 projects; preference is given to candidates who have public and institutional project experience
• Outstanding communication and time management skills – you will be responsible for working independently and as a part of a collaborative team

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

The preferred candidate can perform conceptual cost estimation, is experienced with Buy America, Build America, and other federal procurement regulations, and has experience with current fabrication techniques (e.g., CNC, 3D Printing, etc.).

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