Senior Project Designer   Employer: HMC Architects Job Location: Irvine , CA Cash Compensation: Industry Type: Architects Job Description: Education: Architectural degree from an accredited university. Experience: Minimum of ten (10) years experience in architectural design, and in the production and coordination of significant design projects. Demonstrates leadership in design within the profession. Responsibilities: Communication and Collaboration • Listen and communicate effectively and professionally. • Ability to communicate complex design concepts both verbally and graphically to team members and clients. • Coordinate project design with team members and consultants for conflicts and discrepancies. • Establish productive working relationships, and deal effectively and cooperatively with team members, consultants, and government agencies. • Display willingness to make decisions; exhibit sound and accurate judgment; support and explain reasoning for decisions; include appropriate people in decision-making process; make timely decisions. • Ability to apprise supervisor and client for status of work. • Collaborate with appropriate staff to meet goals and objectives of project. • Asks questions about assignments when unclear. • Resolve issues related to team members, staff, and clients. • Ability to organize and deliver complete project design presentations to client user group or public forum. • Ensure that coaching, mentoring, and performance-enhancing feedback of assigned team members are provided. • Direct overall verbal and graphic communication of complex project concepts to clients, public agencies, and project team members, and be a primary point of contact for the client. • Resolve Company Description: Throughout the firm’s history, HMC has established an unequaled reputation as a thought leader and award-winning designer of education, healthcare, and government facilities. Founded in 1940 by Jay Dewey Harnish in Ontario, California, Jack Causey and Mel Morgan joined Harnish to form Harnish, Morgan, and Causey in 1960. Jay Harnish retired in 1978, at which time the firm became known as HMC Architects. Today, the firm is one of the largest planning and design firms headquartered in California, with offices strategically located throughout California and Nevada. Since 1940, HMC Architects has become an industry leader of planning and design expertise in Healthcare, Educational, and Civic projects in each of its ten offices throughout California and Nevada. We are a growing firm whose energies are dedicated to infusing each project with creativity and quality execution. We need innovative thinkers with strong leadership and communication skills that embrace every opportunity to convey cutting-edge experience and motivation to both the project team and our clients.