Position Description

Join our partner firm, Macgregor Associates Architects | an INVISION Studio, as a architectural Project Manager and lead the design and delivery of high-performance Data Center – mission critical projects. In this role, you’ll manage one or more projects from concept through construction, ensuring client requirements are clearly defined, communicated, and met. You’ll collaborate closely with internal teams, clients, consultants, and AHJs, while maintaining MAA’s high design standards. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in Data Center design — including both tenant improvements and ground-up development — along with proficiency in Revit and cloud-based BIM collaboration. You should be comfortable navigating fast-paced project timelines, coordinating construction administration tasks, and adapting quickly to evolving client needs. Strong communication and organizational skills are essential for success in this dynamic, client-facing role.

Position Responsibilities

• Manage one or more Data Center projects from design through construction, ensuring alignment with client goals, program requirements, and design criteria.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, consultants, internal teams, and authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs), maintaining clear and consistent communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead and supervise project team members, ensuring successful coordination across all disciplines.
• Oversee project documentation, including drafting, modeling, and production of construction documents (CDs), while upholding firm design standards.
• Direct and participate in construction administration activities such as reviewing RFIs, submittals, conducting site visits, generating reports, and leading punch walks.
• Utilize Revit and BIM 360 for project development and coordination within a cloud-shared model environment.
• Ensure compliance with applicable building, fire, and energy codes throughout all project phases.
• Adapt quickly to evolving client needs or changes in project direction, effectively guiding the team through necessary adjustments.
• Contribute to the creation of proposals and design criteria manuals, supporting the delivery of clear and professional documentation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Professional degree in Architecture
• Licensure is preferred but not required.
• Minimum of 8+ years of project management experience, including the development of owner program requirements, proposals, and design criteria manuals.
• 10+ years of professional architectural practice with a strong foundation in fast-paced project delivery.
• 6+ years of experience in data center – mission critical projects, including tenant improvements and full ground-up designs for hyperscale, collocation, or enterprise clients.
• 8+ years of Revit production experience, specifically within data center projects, with extensive experience working in BIM 360 cloud-shared environments.
• In-depth understanding of construction documentation, detail development, and full construction administration processes (RFIs, submittals, site visits, punch walks, and reporting).
• Proven knowledge of building, fire, and energy codes.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with clients, consultants, internal teams, and AHJs.
• Strong adaptability to client direction changes with the ability to clearly convey updated project needs to internal teams.

Company Overview

Macgregor Associates Architects, an INVISION Studio and proud member of the HFW Companies network of partner firms, is a leading architectural practice with a legacy of excellence dating back to 1987. Our portfolio includes over eight hundred million square feet of industrial projects in thirty-nine states. MAA has attained a reputation for excellence in the planning, design and delivery of light industrial projects including warehouses, distribution and direct fulfillment centers, data centers, and light manufacturing. MAA’s clients represent many of the major corporations and developers in the United States. We have a strong history of customer retention based on project experience, talented people, proven value, and a track record of success. We maintain our reputation by delivering quality buildings that are sensibly and efficiently planned, well-constructed, and aesthetically pleasing. Our primary goal is that the resulting project exceeds their expectations and enhances our relationships with our clients, consultants, contractors and vendors.

Our staff of professional architects and interior designers work with the latest Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools and practices to provide creative design and personalized hands-on service to all our clients. Our thoughtful approach to problem solving and the depth of our experience combine to make us uniquely qualified in the industry.

The Perks!

At Macgregor Associates Architects, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes paid time off, paid holidays, bereavement leave, fully paid maternity leave, and a 401(k) pension plan. Our coverage includes medical, life, long-term disability, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance. Employees also have access to a cafeteria plan with pre-tax options for medical and dependent care expenses. In addition, MAA provides professional registration support, performance-based bonuses, and flexible work hours.