Senior Architect

Stantec's Buildings team is on a mission to become the world's leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.  Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Your Opportunity

We are actively seeking a Senior Project Architect. You are expected to have a broad set of experience and knowledge, promote design excellence, possess technical skills to support project work, and employ strong communication to lead a multi-disciplinary team. Supporting the office leadership and account management team, you will often serve as the primary contact for a client, communicating progress and status as you lead the design team through the documentation of project work from initial conception to construction administration.

This shall be done in a manner consistent with firm-wide standards for project delivery.

Your

Key Responsibilities

- Responsible for multiple projects of large and medium complexity/size.

- Collaborate with the team leadership (principal, project manager, project controls) to communicate and monitor an efficient project work plan.

- Assist in the confirmation of scope, schedule, goals and priorities, budget, and staffing.

- Ensures that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction.

- Coordinates building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent.

- Conceptualizes a building design from both a functional and aesthetic perspective in concert with a client's requirements, budget, and program.

- Develops space planning, block planning, and adjacency diagrams in coordination with building program.

- Present the design with the Project Manager and Project Designer to stakeholders during early project phases.

- Participate and collaborate on project activities from concept design through construction administration.

- Lead project coordination and owner/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors.

- Lead others in project team settings, design critiques, pin-ups, and constructability reviews.

- Supervise and coach junior staff on project teams.

- Utilize BIM technology to advance the design and documentation in various architectural phases.

- Lead or direct the preparation of specifications in coordination with building plans.

- Evaluate and promote the incorporation of sustainable design principles.

- Interpret and apply building codes, energy codes and requirements of regulatory agencies.

- Evaluate and select building systems and materials.

- Analyze site incorporating geotechnical, hydrological, environmental, social, economic, and contextual conditions.

- Participate and support Quality Assurance and Control practices.

- Participate in marketing activities for the office/company, including helping to win work in interviews for potential projects.

Capabilities and Credentials

- Requires understanding of Revit, Microsoft Office Suite; understanding of Newforma, Adobe Creative Suite preferred.

- Capable of simultaneously supporting one or more Principals in Charge on multiple projects.

- Experience in one (or more) of the following markets:
Healthcare, S&T, Advanced Manufacturing, Mission Critical.

- Excellent understanding of accessibility codes, life-safety codes, building construction systems, means and methods, materials, and industry associated standards.

- Able to maintain and forward the development of the design concept.

- Offers and supports creative technical design and detailing decisions that are in line with project goals and understands their impact on cost, construction, sustainability, and other factors.

- Understands and leads the integration of code, zoning, market specific best practices and other issues into the project.

- Adheres to established project sustainability requirements.

- Has the ability to follow verbal and written instructions to revise, develop and produce…