We design buildings in Australia, manufacture them offshore and deliver them complete. Our drawings get built exactly as issued, several hundred times, by people we never meet and who cannot walk over and ask a question. This changes what documentation is. Precision counts for more than variety, and a detail that is nearly right is not one problem, it is three hundred.

We are looking for a project architect to take this on properly. Offsite construction is the part of Australian building the federal government is actively clearing a path for, which is why this position exists now rather than in two years.

Key responsibilities

Own the construction details and the standard set behind them

Produce the build package for each product, finished before production starts rather than during it

Brief engineering consultants and hold them to a programme rather than wait on them

Author and maintain the manual the factory builds from

Handle design issues coming back from the factory and from site

Travel to the factory floor a few times a year to watch your own details being built

Tell the Design Director when a brief is not valuable enough to draw from

Work mostly in Revit,



uninterrupted, with no client presentations

About you

Revit fluency on day one

Contractor-side experience on design and construct, or documentation produced for a builder rather than for an approval

Five or more years documenting in Australia

Experience briefing consultants and holding them to a programme

Working knowledge of the NCC and relevant Australian Standards

Documenting for a factory rather than a site is a solid plus, not a requirement. Prefabricated, modular, facade and shop drawing backgrounds all count

Registration supported if you are working toward it

Probably not for you if

You want to be designing

You have moved from producing documentation into coordinating people who do

You would issue a package you knew was unresolved because the date had been promised

Where you need to be

Based in Southport. If you are elsewhere you are welcome to apply, we would just ask that the move and the travel to interview are your own arrangement. First conversations are by video.
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📌 Project Architect, Design And Delivery Gold Coast
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