Architectural Technician

Architectural Technician

Rochester, MN

Find balance in Rochester, Minnesota!

Enjoy everything an urban metropolitan area offers, with bucolic fields, streams, and bluffs just minutes from the city’s center. Widseth is a growing E/A firm with a solid history in this community. Widseth offers competitive salaries and an excellent benefit package—AND the opportunity to balance a diverse, urban lifestyle with open, rural spaces.

As an Architectural Technician, you will perform a broad variety of planning, design, and layouts utilizing both physical and digital drafting tools to create models according to the client’s needs. Responsible for some non-routine and complex tasks in addition to routine assignments in interpreting and communicating architectural plans and specifications. If you have a passion to design on a variety of building types, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Your focus will be:

• Receive project requests and draft designs
• Utilize necessary physical and digital tools to create initial drafts
• Work collaboratively with team members and stakeholders to ensure accuracy of early design work
• Revisit designs and adjust as needed
• Research and incorporate artistic elements into designs as needed
• Ensure design specifications align to safety standards and governmental regulations
• Liaise with various professionals and departments to coordinate project details

To be considered for this position you’ll need to meet the following minimum qualifications:

• Post-secondary schooling in related area of study.
• Minimum 2 years’ architectural design experience (should be able to showcase finished/built work).
• Construction minded experience.
• Working knowledge of and experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software.
• Strong working knowledge of Revit.
• Strong familiarity and experience using physical drafting tools.
• Significantly detail-oriented with the ability to spot and fix potential design flaws.
• Ability to generate reports and deliver to reports to stakeholders and team members.

Widseth provides work-life balance by offering competitive compensation, discretionary annual profit-sharing, bonuses, health insurance, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid time off and paid holidays.