Associate - Restoration & Renewal - Boston, United States - Thornton Tomasetti

Description

Thornton Tomasetti applies engineering and scientific principles to solve the world's challenges. An independent organization of creative thinkers and innovative doers collaborating from offices worldwide, our mission is to bring our clients' ideas to life and, in the process, lay the groundwork for a better, more resilient future. We provide support and opportunities to our employees to achieve their full potential and cultivate a rewarding career.

Our Restoration & Renewal practice provides owners and managers with a home for solutions to a wide range of structural, envelope, and building systems needs for existing properties of every use, age, and construction type. Our multidisciplinary design and assessment services cover a wide range of needs. We perform condition assessments, investigations, feasibility studies, and peer reviews. We design repairs, renovations, and alterations and oversee their execution in the field.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and talented Building Envelope Associate, Architect, or Engineer with an interest in historic preservation specializing in exterior restoration, preservation design, and forensics. Projects range from cultural institutions, higher education facilities, healthcare facilities to vintage high-rises and adaptive reuse of buildings. Must be conscientious and creative, detail-oriented, and professional with attentiveness to client communications.

Responsibilities

• Manage building envelope consulting projects and work directly with clients.
• Contribute to TT's leadership by facilitating clear communications and guidance among team leaders, and promoting professional relationships internally and externally.
• Tasks include condition assessments, developing material testing programs, report writing, developing repair design strategies, preparing CD's, and construction phase services.
• Team coordination would include working with design architects, structural engineers, conservators, testing labs, owners, owner representatives, and contractors.
• Additional in-house coordination would include TT's diverse disciplines, including protective design, faade engineering, structural design, and sustainability, as well as, other TT offices around the US and Canada.
• Interprets building codes and project/design/construction specifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Architecture or Engineering. Master's Degree Preferred. (8+ yrs experience)
• Professional licensure is preferred.
• Experience with faade assessments, CD's, and construction phase services in the field and office. Knowledge of conservation or preservation techniques is preferred.
• Travel to job sites around the Boston area and the greater Northeast.
• Proficient in Bluebeam required; AutoCAD and/or Revit, Sketchup.

Benefits

Depending on your employment status, benefits may include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, Disability and other voluntary benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical & Childcare
• Paid Time Off, Family Leave for New Parents, Volunteer Time
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Commuter Transit (where available)
• 401k retirement savings with Company matching on employee contributions and/or qualified student loan repayments
• Fitness Reimbursement
• And other various wellness, diversity/inclusion and employee resource programs and initiatives

Thornton Tomasetti is proud to be an equal employment workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Thornton Tomasetti are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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