Senior Interior Design Architect - Site DSA Architects International

The Senior Interior Design Architect is responsible for managing the DSA Site Supervision team, for the interior design scope, ensuring compliance with construction & Employer contracts and quality standards while managing the pre-engineering and associated synchronization process and effectively coordinate with various stakeholders and facilitate successful project delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Managing and supervising the DSA Interior Design Site Supervision team, which may include Assistant ID Architects, ID Inspectors, document controllers, and other admin staff.
• Coordinating all Designer Architects, and sub-consultants interior design site supervision team s tasks and duties in accordance with the Construction & Employer contract requirements and DSA work QA & QC work procedures.
• Construction Contract requirements and compliance
  
  • Obtain copy and familiarize yourself with the requirements of the contract for all ID site supervision duties as required by the Site Consultant team.
• In acting out the duties herein the employee is to follow and implement all relevant company and project work procedures.
• Establish / Obtain at the project outset:
  
  • Staffing organization / deployment chart.
  • Lines of communications & reporting.
  • Roles and Responsibilities matrix for all the ID Project Team.
  • All ID project procedures and proformas for use in site works quality control and ID site supervision duties.
• Contractor pre-start activities
  
  • Establish and verify with the contractor, set out points and datum points.
  • Request and obtain from the contractor a site condition and existing services survey.
• Request Contractors Health & Safety plan review and comment/approve accordingly.
• Request Contractors QA & QC manual review and comment/approve accordingly.
• Overseeing the implementation at the site or project office of general office tasks, housekeeping and document control, ensuring that the ID site team comply with all the agreed procedures [the list below is not definitive but is the basic requirements]
  
  • Incoming mail & Outgoing Mail receipt, distribution and assigning of tasks/actions.
  • Electronic file storage and backups.
  • IT and communication equipment requirements.
  • Stationery requests and ordering.
  • Document record filing.
  • Drawing issue procedures.
  • FTP site use.
  • Document tracking logs & registers.
  • Day file management.
• Tracking and recording of Employer Instructions
• Utilizing of computer software for the document and drawing control, If available and per the contract s requirements eg Primavera Expedition.
• HR Duties / Supervision of Assistant ID Site Architects, ID Inspectors and other staff
  
  • Holiday leave arrangements and planning for all staff to be coordinated and agreed with senior management.
  • Establish working days and hours for all staff before starting work.
  • Time sheets prepared and issued to DSA Regional office for all staff monthly.
  • Ensure all leave is recorded, notified and administered in accordance with the DSA Company procedures sick, holiday, compassionate leave etc.
  • Ensure that each staff member has a clear job brief and set of work instructions. This must be done in conjunction with DSA regional office and HR support.
  • Meet regularly with staff to review work, problems, HR issues etc.
• Establish and maintain a staff contacts list with all emergency numbers and contact details.
• Maintaining a full set of ID Design drawings, schedules, specifications etc.
  
  • This should include all design consultants documents.
  • Full size Hard or digital copy of drawings for Inspector use.
  • Archived set of superseded documents.
• Establish and maintain a register of all design documentation issues [revisions and dates].
• Maintaining a set of
  
  • Client Instructions.
  • Contractors verbal instructions.
  • RFI s and their responses.
• Submittals and their responses (pre-engineering).
• Maintain a Daily diary, which should include
  
  • Weather
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