Job at The Place

We are a fast growing, world class, dynamic, multi-billion Nigerian conglomerate, presently into restaurants, hotel, agriculture and nightclubbing. We are a professionally run organization established and managed by a team of professionals with decades of management consulting and accounting experience/ training from Arthur Andersen (now KPMG in Nigeria).
Job Title: Senior Architect
Job Location: Nigeria
Job description:

• The candidate will be generally responsible for design of our new outlets, which will usually be restaurants and kitchens, and will also be responsible for ongoing upgrade of all existing outlets, which include restaurants and kitchen, bar/ club, hotel, warehouse and goat farm. He/she will need to have good maintenance discipline, to proactively identify deterioration in facilities and recommend and champion appropriate repair/ upgrade.
• We will need the candidate to be able to do basic mechanical and electrical drawing/ design.

Generally, the candidate may have responsibilities for the following:

• Liaison with estate agents to find new properties/ sites for the business expansion
• Facilities/ branch rollout (renovation/ construction)
• Maintenance and repair of equipment, fittings, utensils and furniture (electricity generator, vehicles, air conditioners, fridges/freezers, kitchen and restaurant equipment, club music equipment, plumbing etc)
• Architectural design
• Interior design
• Renovation of existing properties
• Research and development to improve existing and new properties
• Relevant government/ regulator liaison

Desired Skills and Experience

• We require a very creative, hardworking and flexible/ open-minded architect that will be improving the looks of our chain of restaurants and nightclubs. The ideal candidate should be outgoing and have a flair for restaurant, bar and nightclub interior and exterior design, particularly with the use of relevant restaurant, nightclub/ bar lightings.
• The candidate must be confident and articulate, and have very strong research as well as project management skills. He/ she must also be very creative with both architectural and interior decoration ideas.
• The candidate should have a Masters degree in Architecture. Ability to use AutoCAD software is compulsory.
• The candidate must have good research skills, to conduct ongoing (particularly internet) research on architectural materials and concepts for improving our facilities.
• We will appreciate candidates with about five years experience with the leading architect firms, and experience with interior design/ decoration firm will be a plus.
• Awesome remuneration package and career progression awaits successful candidates in a professionally run environment.

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Deadline: 10th December, 2014