Senior Architect, Education

Senior Architect, Education

LOCATION:

Halifax

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve.

To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Senior Architect, Education

Based in our Halifax office, you will join EXP’s collaborative architectural practice and help lead the planning and delivery of K-12 and post-secondary projects throughout Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada.

You will work with school districts, government departments, colleges, universities, educators, facilities teams, students, community representatives, and multidisciplinary consultants to create inclusive, adaptable, sustainable, and durable learning environments. Your work may include new schools and academic buildings, additions, renovations, campus renewals, specialized teaching and research spaces, and projects delivered within occupied facilities.

As a senior member of the architectural team, you will provide education-sector insight, project leadership, client service, and mentorship. You will help translate educational and operational requirements into clear planning and design solutions while maintaining alignment with budget, schedule, technical requirements, and long-term institutional priorities.

• Lead K-12 and post-secondary projects from programming and concept design through construction and closeout.
• Work with clients and user groups to define educational, functional, operational, and facility requirements.
• Lead or participate in programming workshops, stakeholder consultations, visioning sessions, presentations, and option-evaluation exercises.
• Translate teaching, learning, student-service, administrative, community-use, and facility requirements into coordinated architectural solutions.
• Establish project work plans and coordinate architects, interns, technologists, engineers, landscape architects, specialty consultants, and cost consultants.
• Guide the preparation and coordination of design documents, Revit models, specifications, reports, presentations, and construction documents.
• Lead interdisciplinary design and technical reviews to confirm alignment among the program, drawings, specifications, cost plan, schedule, client standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Incorporate accessibility, universal design, sustainability, resilience, energy performance, durability, security, and student well-being into project planning and design.
• Support project teams during procurement and construction, including tender questions, addenda, submittals, RFIs, site reviews, change management, deficiency review, and closeout.
• Maintain strong client relationships and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor architects, interns, designers, and technologists and contribute to education-sector standards, tools, research, and lessons learned.
• Contribute to proposals, interviews, project pursuits, client presentations, and the continued growth of EXP’s education practice in Atlantic Canada.
• Travel to project sites and client…