Hoar Careers

Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

• Represent the District as part of the consultant team in overseeing architectural and engineering design consultants across multiple K–12 projects.
• Lead and facilitate design reviews at all phases, including Programming, Schematic Design, Design Development, and Construction Documents.
• Ensure consistency with District design standards, educational specifications, space guidelines, and sustainability objectives.
• Review design deliverables for constructability, cost alignment, and schedule feasibility.
• Serve as a primary point of coordination between the District, design consultants, construction managers, and internal stakeholders.
• Support the District in managing A/E consultant contracts, scope adherence, and performance expectations.
• Participate in procurement support activities, including RFQ/RFP development, proposal evaluations, and consultant negotiations.
• Monitor design schedules and budgets to ensure alignment with approved E-SPLOST funding parameters.
• Identify design-related risks, scope gaps, and potential cost escalation and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support value engineering and alternatives analysis to maintain fiscal discipline while preserving educational and functional requirements.
• Ensure compliance with applicable building codes, ADA requirements, life safety regulations, and state and local education facility standards.
• Coordinate and oversee QA/QC reviews of design documents prior to District and regulatory submissions.
• Support permitting and agency review processes through approvals.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).

Preferred Experience

• 10–15 years of progressive experience in design management, owner’s representation, or program management consulting.
• Demonstrated experience delivering K–12 school facilities within large public-sector or school district capital programs.
• Experience supporting bond-funded or sales tax-funded programs (E-SPLOST or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of K–12 educational facility planning and delivery.
• Proven ability to manage multi-consultant design teams in a public-sector environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive and board-level reporting.
• Proficiency with Bluebeam, BIM coordination tools, and program management platforms.

Physical Demands and Working Environment 

The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. 

Environment: Work is performed primarily in a standard office environment with extensive public contact and frequent interruptions. 

Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight 50 lbs; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a computer keyboard; to travel to other locations using various modes of private and commercial transportation; and to verbally communicate to exchange information. 

Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction. 

Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction. 

EOE - Vets/Disabilities 

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