Reference: JOB443
Location: Houston, TX
Employer: WHR Architects
Contact: Kimi Duplichan

Position Summary
The Lab Planner/Designer will be responsible for implementing the planning and design concepts for research facilities that are developed by the design team and the owner. He/she will be involved in the development of business for the studio including proposals, presentations, and participation in professional organizations.

Qualifications

  • Professional degree in architecture
  • Must be licensed as an architect
  • Must have a minimum of 7 years’ experience in laboratory planning and design

Competencies and Skills

  • Should have a strategic orientation
  • Possesses analytical thinking skills
  • Is a conceptual thinker with design sensitivity
  • Is adaptable and objective
  • Can confront peers, subordinates and clients constructively
  • Is aware of others interpersonally
  • Has good team management skills
  • Has good oral communication/presentation, writing skills, public speaking and a strong ability in facilitating meetings with clients/ users
  • Has good client management skills
  • Has good technical knowledge
  • Has initiative
  • Understands and works well within WHR’s organizational structure
  • Holds people accountable
  • Is developing leadership skills
  • Has a grasp of the fundamentals and knowledge of theoretical and practical developments in lab planning and design
  • Has an ability to work with clients who have different organizational orientations (such as institutional, federal and private clients)
  • Should have a working knowledge of AutoCAD, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and presentation and graphics software
  • Has strong graphic presentation skills

Responsibilities

  • Will participate in the coordination and development of the pre-design phase of a research project
  • Will participate in the planning and programming workshops with clients
  • Helps to monitor and review implementation of client provided information
  • Helps to review progress and provides technical direction on research facility projects
  • Mentor junior staff
  • Continue education through seminars and participation in professional organization activities
  • May participate in business development opportunities for the firm including assisting in responses to RFPs, making project presentations, calling on prospects, networking, writing articles and participating in professional seminars

Accountable to: Senior Lab Planner/Designer
Responsible for: Assistant Lab Planners

WHR, based in Houston, Texas, with additional offices in Dallas and Copenhagen, Denmark, is a full-service architecture and interior design firm, currently ranked No. 1 in healthcare renovation and the 13th largest healthcare practice in the United States. The firm’s commitment to critical thinking is balanced by an ingrained empathy that results in both improved project outcomes and positive working experiences for their clients. With over 170 people firm-wide, the 35-year-old firm is working on projects worldwide for top-­tier public and private education and medical institutions. WHR is one of EYP’s practice groups. For more information about WHR Architects, visit http://www.whrarchitects.com.

WHR Architects, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices including hiring, transferring, promotion and termination on the basis of race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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