Looking for a Senior Architect with complex project background to work on Birmingham’s new flagship high speed railway station, £570m Curzon Street Station, which, will be signature building of national importance, it will be largest building in Birmingham with a 280m long & 70m-wide arched roof. This is a complex unconventional building utilising state of the art building systems, this Landmark project will be the first brand new intercity terminus station built in Britain since the 19th Century
The Senior Architect will be working for the client organisation HS2, the role reports to and supports the Lead Architect whom you will form a close partnership to steer and mentor the Design & Build Main Contractors and their Design Consultants. HS2’s Architectural Team sits with the infrastructure directorate and totals 10 individuals working across the entire HS2 Programme.
Job Purpose
The Senior Architect will support the Lead Architect as the design client interface with the engineering design teams for £570m Curzon Street Station – made up of Principal Contractors Dragados Mace, Consultants Arup WSP and Grimshaw architects all of whom are developing the design of the Station. Assuring and ensuring the specifications and requirements are being met and that the HS2 Design Vision is applied.
Curzon Street Station has just moved into Construction phase with the piling commenced at the start of September, the build programme for the £570m Station is 5 years and architectural assistance likely needed beyond that date.
The ability to influence and steer the main contractor and its design partners will be a key skill requirement. Hs2 is the client and therefore not designing the station it will be your role to first ensure specification & requirements are met but also to aide the scheme through planning, design & construction – assisting, advising and enabling good practices and de-risking the project. This is a relentlessly interesting project with huge selection of stakeholders and with large challenges not least constant change.
Working Relationship – Co-located & Hybrid
The client team are working alongside the main contractor (Co-located) in the same site offices.. Role is site office based from Curzon Street site offices coupled with Hybrid working – expectation is to work 2 - 3 days a week from the site office and the rest of the time at home.
Senior Architect £60 – 65,000 + Pen (12:6) + health + 25 + hybrid
Duties and responsibilities
* The Senior Architect will support the Lead Architect in all aspects of project delivery. The Lead Architect is the asset discipline technical authority and subject matter expert (SME) for all Architecture and design-related matters for Headhouses, Portals, Bridges and Viaduct structures and other architectural aspects of the HS2 line of route. Support activities will include: -
* Providing specialist technical knowledge and technical support for the Architecture and design-related disciplines and associated delivery support to the HS2 business.
* Support the preparation of technical scope input for procurement and help assess tender returns.
* Review architecture and design-related discipline requirements by the design suppliers in accordance with the specification and requirements required by ID.
* Responding to architecture Requests For Information.
* Providing technical input for Planning Application packages and conditions closure.
* Working with various contractors’ designers to prepare for the formal Independent Design Review Panel reviews and to coordinate responses to recommendations made by the Independent Design Review Panel.
* Providing support for the integration of the Architecture and design-related disciplines with the other project disciplines and delivery area teams including civil engineering, landscape, rail systems, environment, third party interfaces, and construction logistics and planning etc.
* Providing a design concept guardian role for the design through its design development and construction.
* Working with the Phase 1 Engineering Team through detailed design and construction by D&B contractors to ensure project specification and requirements are met. Obtaining design approvals and signoffs.
* Ensuring safety is a key priority in all aspects of the role.
* Providing a design custodian role for the HS2 Design Vision.
* Managing the interfaces across individual delivery units to deliver design consistency.
* Working within the project team to identify and mitigate risks and capture opportunities.
Candidate Criteria
You will be flexibale and bright ARB registered Architect with complex project experience open to a wide range of projects: Stations, Airports, Shopping Centres, Apartments, public building, industrial, commercial etc.
Interested in Architects looking for a promotion or indeed your next challenge you could be currently working for a Design provide practice, engineering consultancy or already currently client side.
You will have advanced interpersonal skills & behaviours to collaboratively influence the integrated project team, whilst navigating a complex internal matrix environment and external stakeholders (including political).

Skills:
* Ability to produce and present documents and reports to a variety of audiences, including internal stakeholders at various levels in the organisation.
* Ability to deliver presentations in order to influence a broad audience and a diverse group of stakeholders.
* Work package development skills.
* Ability to execute required work packages.
* Ability to prioritise workload and work streams to meet agreed deadlines.
* Ability to focus on high quality design, while working on multiple projects.
Knowledge:
* Registered architect (ARB/RIBA)
* Familiar with relevant architectural and/or engineering standards and be able to interpret in a railway/ transportation environment.
Type of experience:
* Experience of delivery in a multi-disciplinary design and delivery environment – complex construction or infrastructure projects