Interior Architect - Retail

Interior Design Professional Lawrence Group is a place for dreamers. That’s a quality we look for in our clients – and in our employees. These dreams – these ideas – inspire us. They move us forward. From the very beginning, we’ve built our culture to encourage this kind of thinking. We’ve never been about ego or hierarchy. And our approach is not about raw beauty or creativity. It’s about finding new ways to bring people together. Helping our clients make what they do more relevant, more impactful, and above all, more meaningful, for all. Lawrence Group is a building design, development, and project delivery firm headquartered in St. Louis with offices in Austin, Florida and New York. With 130+ employees, Lawrence Group offers architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, furniture procurement, and graphic design services to a wide variety of clients, including housing, hospitality, healthcare, academic, and retail. This position will adhere to Lawrence Group’s core values: • Legendary: We strive to be legendary; from the service we provide to our impact on the community. • Innovation: We’re driven by ideas and creativity. We take calculated risks and embrace opportunities. • Growth: We seek sustainable growth for our clients, our organization, and our employees. • Heart: We lead with heart. We celebrate, appreciate and care for each other. • Trust: We rely on trust to pursue excellence. We speak honestly, act transparently and honor our commitments. The Retail Team in the St Louis office is seeking qualified candidates for an Interior Design Professional position with our professional services & retail national brands rollout team. The team specializes in collaborating with clients, general contractors and building departments to roll out their brands with services including building surveys, due diligence, code analysis, architectural construction documents. engineer coordination and permitting services. Project involvement may also include space planning, finish selection, design development and detailing but brand standards are generally in place already and just need to be implemented. Typical project size is 3,000 SF of interior remodel but can range from 1,500 – 5,000 SF. Some construction administration including shop drawing review and responding to RFI’s will also be part of this position. Most project work is communicative, organizational, technical and production oriented in nature. Candidate Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design or Interior Architecture from an accredited institution • 3 years professional experience in a commercial or retail design firm using Revit and AutoCAD • Excellent design, organizational, and communication skills. • Ability to work effectively within a collaborative team environment. • Knowledge of general interior construction, methods & materials, details and standard building codes. • Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, Microsoft (Office, Outlook, Excel, Word) is a minimum requirement with openness to learn new software to enhance the client experience. • Basic/entry level Project Management skills meeting project schedules & deadlines • Ability to work in a fast-paced, high volume, work environment with the ability to manage up to 40-50 project deadlines at one time. • Client interaction/communication balanced with production mindset • Responsiveness to all client, general contractor and building department questions and concerns. • Ability to site adapt & implement established brand standards to a project anywhere in the nation. • Nationally and regionally recognized accessibility standards knowledge (ICC, Chapter 11B, TAS & ADA). • General life safety, separation and fire code knowledge. • Experience with client maintenance, engineer coordination, applying for permits, building department interaction, issuing construction documents and addressing building department comments. Lawrence Group Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable Federal, State or Local law.