Values
Services
Healthcare is What We Do
At Clark/Kjos, we design architecture that improves lives. We collaborate, take ownership, and create spaces that go beyond function to make a lasting impact. The built environment drives better health outcomes, sustainability is a responsibility, and close client relationships are essential to getting it right. Our team cares, pushes each other, and stays focused on making a real difference.
Team
Culture
Clark/Kjos’s people are focused on how architecture can be a catalyst in the lives of our building’s users. We are motivated by the opportunity to create excellence, our collaborative teamwork environment, everyday challenges for authorship and responsibility, a healthy/sustainable architecture focus, partnering with health professionals to improve health outcomes, close client relationships, and our passionate, caring co-workers.
“A great place to grow in the field and healthcare architecture. Many opportunities to lead teams and good work/life balance.”
Glassdoor review
Some specific ways we promote our values:
Learning Organization
- Out-Of-Office Education Allowance
- In-office education through monthly ‘CKA University’
- Monthly design pinups over pizza
- Firm pays national professional association dues
Collaborative work-place
- Mentoring program for all new employees
- Weekly project team meetings
- Annual reviews & mid-year career lunch
- Internal Committees
Social Life at CKA
- Monthly First Wednesday discussions
- Monthly Social Hour
- Annual golf/disc golf tournament
- Annual holiday party
- Summer Family Picnic
CKA Professional Groups
- LEAN Project Delivery
- Revit Development Team
- Green Team
Volunteer Events
- Architects Without Borders-Oregon
- Rose Haven Day Shelter
- Stop Oregon Litter & Vandalism (SOLVE)
Opportunities
May 1, 2026
Clark Kjos Architects, LLC seeks an Architect II in Portland, OR.
Duties:
- Uses computer-aided three-dimensional drafting software to create full-scale and de-tailed designs of buildings and interiors from an architect’s rough drawings. (60%)
- Study building codes and regulations and determines how they will affect architectural designs. (5%)
- Organizes structural, electrical, and mechanical designs, coordinating change with each discipline. (10%)
- Draws plans for foundations, buildings, and structures based on instructions provided by engineers and architects. (10%)
- Visits jobsites to gather data needed to complete designs. (5%)
- Working with an architect, generates cost estimates, contracts, and other documents re-quired for individual projects. (5%)
- Performs other duties as assigned. (5%)
Requirements:
- Requires a Master’s degree in Architecture or related field and 24 months of experience as Architect or related. Two years of architectural project experience are required.
- Full-time.
To Apply:
Mail cover letter and resume to Tyler Carlson, 421 SW 6th Ave #1300, Portland, OR 97205 with reference “Architect II.”
“Every tour I do, someone comments on the beauty of our hospital – and often seem surprised to see such detail in our rural facility.”
