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Bureau Veritas is seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Project Architect - Asset Advisory & Capital Planning to lead the execution, delivery, and growth of comprehensive Asset Management and Asset Advisory services. This role spans a wide range of programs-from long-term capital planning and feasibility studies to ADA assessments-with an added focus on helping clients make data-driven decisions around facility investments, lifecycle planning, and portfolio optimization.

The Senior Project Architect will lead multi-disciplinary project teams and serve as the key bridge between client-facing teams and technical operations. The ideal candidate brings a balance of people leadership, client consulting, and program delivery expertise.

This role requires a Registered Architect in the State of California and is a remote role with regional travel-candidates must reside in California or a Western state adjacent to California.

Why Bureau Veritas?

We're a global leader in testing, inspection, and certification. Our Asset Management division provides critical insight and consultative support to help public and private organizations manage their assets more intelligently, efficiently, and sustainably. From schools and hospitals to industrial facilities and government properties, our team is trusted to deliver insightful, actionable intelligence across the asset lifecycle.

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of Asset Management and Asset Advisory programs for key clients in education, government, industrial, and commercial sectors.
• Oversee and mentor a cross-functional team of Architects, Engineers, Certified Energy Managers, and Building Analysts-your team is in the field and at the desk, conducting facility condition assessments, lifecycle cost analysis, equipment inventories, and ADA evaluations.
• Ensure assessment teams collect, verify, and interpret building, infrastructure, accessibility, and building systems data, translating field observations into defensible capital planning strategies and actionable facility investment recommendations.
• Serve as the architectural subject matter expert for facility condition assessments, ADA compliance evaluations, building envelope systems, life safety considerations, and capital renewal planning.
• Review assessment findings and provide professional architectural judgment regarding asset condition, risk exposure, deferred maintenance, and long-term facility performance.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and assessment professionals while fostering technical excellence and consistency across program delivery.
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• Review and enhance technical reports, ensuring deliverables are not just accurate-but actionable, consistent, and aligned with client goals.
• Collaborate with sales, scoping new opportunities and building compelling proposals that define client-specific program goals.
• Be the point person for the client-advising, guiding, and translating technical jargon into boardroom clarity.
• Identify internal process improvements, drive standardization across reporting and workflows, and champion quality control across all program activities.
• Participate in industry events, present client results, and contribute to thought leadership in the Asset Management and Advisory space.
• Be willing and able to perform the duties of a Senior Project Manager when needed, including field assessments, report writing, or client presentations. You lead by example and back up your team when projects demand it.

Areas of Expertise Managed:

• Facility Condition Assessments
• Asset Advisory Services
• Capital Planning
• Energy Services
• Equipment Inventory & Tagging
• Preventive Maintenance Programs
• ADA Assessments & Consulting
• Feasibility Studies

1. Must dictate to the team the program's standards and procedures.
2. Serves as the main point-of-contact with client during the execution of projects and programs. 
3. Prepares progress reports to share with client.  Assures client satisfaction and goals are met through timely responsiveness and feedback.
4. Attends meetings with Sales team and client.
5. Facilitates communication across work streams and projects to minimize disruption to the organization of program/project implementation.
6. Responsible for managing programs within budget and on-time, while providing high client satisfaction. This includes managing budget, potential risk, client communication, change orders, and report delivery.
7. Manages field staff and staff's schedule.
8. Involved in developing new service offerings. 
9. Creates and develops report templates. 
10. Responsible for proposal development of client and project specific scopes of work.
11. Directly interfaces with sales staff to assure client expectations are being met. 
12. Serves as an available consultative resource for clients and may participate in sales calls or presentations.
13. Performs technical reviews of deliverables for technical accuracy, client expectations, compliance of scope and consistency.
14. Reviews and evaluates work progress, identifies problems, and provides technical direction and guidance to assigned staff.
15. Acts as technical lead, providing guidance and technical direction for field staff.
16. Supports the department's recruiting activities through resume review, phone screens, interviews, and selection of candidates for field staff roles.
17. Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying new and existing legislation, anticipating future legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on necessary action.

The role of Program Manager directs Lead and Senior Project Assessors within the Asset Management Division on specific programs by ensuring clear up-front scopes are understood, visits and projects occur on time, issues are resolved, and technical decisions are made.

Education and/or Experience:

• • Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, or related field preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in architecture, facility assessments, capital planning, asset management, or asset advisory services.
  • 5+ years of experience in Facility Condition Assessments (FCA), PCA reports, and capital planning.
  • Experience in Asset Advisory, cost modeling, or lifecycle ROI analysis
  • Solid understanding of building systems, infrastructure, and facility operations.
  • Experience working with public sector, higher education, or institutional clients.
  • Consultative mindset with the ability to guide clients through complex facility portfolios and planning challenges.
  • Familiarity with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills-you build trust fast and lead with clarity.
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Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: 

• • Required: Current California Registered Architect (RA) or Professional Engineer (PE) or license in good standing.
  • Bonus: Current Certified Energy Manager or ADA certified (such as ADAC, CASp, TX RAS, IBC Certified Inspector Plans Inspector)
  • Valid driver's license required with no significant MVA points/violations (clean driving record)

This Role Might Be for You If... 

• • You're ready to lead from the front-mentoring teams, influencing decisions, and advising clients at a high level.
  • You know how to turn data into strategy, and strategy into results.
  • You like working across diverse environments-from K-12 campuses to government facilities and beyond.

• Language Ability: Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and standard operating procedures. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from clients, peers, and technical field staff.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. 
• Technology Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in operating a computer, having knowledge of word processing software, spreadsheet software, and project management software. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to operate an electronic tablet in the field for live data collection.

• Motivated to improve the status quo and consistently contributes to process improvements.
• Ability to lead initiatives related to process improvements.
• Self-starter and manage own time with minimal direction.
• Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly with clients as well as teams and stakeholders and possess strong client facing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with internal and external clients.
• Demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills.
• Active listening skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Ability to motivate, develop, and direct people
• Motivated to improve the status quo and consistently contributes to process improvements.
• Ability to lead initiatives related to process improvements.
• Self-starter and manage own time with minimal direction.
• Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly with clients as well as teams and stakeholders and possess strong client facing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with internal and external clients.
• Demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills.
• Active listening skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Ability to motivate, develop, and direct people

Travel by Plane, Motor Vehicle, Train (approx. 40% of time) to client/project sites in California and Western US States.

While performing the onsite/field duties, the employee is required to:

• Walk (material part of an 8-hour workday, up to 3 to 4 continuous hours at one time.)
• Stand (material part of an 8-hour workday, up to 3 to 4 continuous hours at one time.          )
• Sit, Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl to observe basement and grade-level crawl spaces, and/or to read equipment data plates when necessary (at least once for each building assessed)
• Climb and balance Stairs (at least once for each building assessed)
• Climb and balance various types of ladders to access flat roofs/hatch access (at least once for each building assessed)
• Repetitive use of hands/fingers for keyboard interaction (frequently)
• Reach with hands and arms
• Talking and hearing (communicate with onsite contact)
• Vision (close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus)
• Lift and or move (occasionally up to 40 pounds)
• Operate an electronic tablet in the field for live data collection.
• Operate a computer (up to 100% of workweek)
• Operating a motor vehicle
• Ability to successfully work from remote location.
• Ability to travel by plane, motor vehicle, train to client/project sites across the U.S. 
• Work Environment: The employee is regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions, moving mechanical components and assemblies, frequently exposed to work near energized electrical components and assemblies. The employee is occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, extreme heat, inclement weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level at the project site is usually moderate

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