Job Title: Project Architect | Location: Leeds | Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 plus benefits.
The role
Reporting to the UK Head of Architecture, the Project Architect will lead architectural delivery from initial feasibility through to completion and handover across both new-build acquisitions and refurbishment projects. The role also includes contributing to shaping best practice and driving continuous improvement across the wider Development function.
Key responsibilities
- Assess the feasibility of potential new sites prior to acquisition and identify refurbishment opportunities across the existing estate.
- Deliver technical evaluation and architectural requirements for each project, ensuring all designs meet established format and quality standards.
- Provide specialist input on building control, fire regulations, and technical compliance throughout the design process.
- Prepare all documentation required to obtain necessary planning and building approvals.
- Contribute to governance forums and key decision-making milestones throughout the development lifecycle.
- Foster a collaborative team environment, supporting colleagues and positively representing the Development function.
About you
- Qualified Architect with industry-recognised credentials.
- Demonstrable experience delivering multi‑site property projects consistently and at scale, ideally within leisure, retail, or hospitality.
- Autonomous and decisive, with the confidence to manage complex problems and make sound judgments under pressure.
- Commercially minded, able to weigh investment decisions against quality and brand expectations.
- A clear, confident communicator who can translate technical complexity for senior stakeholders.
- Process‑driven with a lean mindset, always looking for smarter and more efficient ways of working.
- Willing and able to travel as the role requires.
What's on offer
- Free gym membership for you and a guest.
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
- Personal private healthcare, including access to a digital GP.
- Life insurance at four times your salary.
- Company pension contribution.
- 25 days annual leave plus one personal day, with the option to purchase up to five additional days.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Learning and development support.
Calibre Search promote equality in the workplace and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified candidates regardless of their sex, race, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age. We act as both an employment agency and employment business.
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