Senior Building Envelope Systems Designer

Title:

Senior Building Envelope Systems Designer

Location:

Greater Toronto Area

Company:
Triumph Group of Companies

The Senior Building Envelope Systems Designer designs, develops, and standardizes the building envelope systems behind Triumph's cladding, glazing, curtain wall, and window and door products. You report to the VP of Glazing and Prime Fab, and you work closely with estimating, fabrication, and field teams across Cladding, ICI Glazing, Primeline, and Prime Fab to make sure systems perform in the real world, not just on paper.

This is a technical role with real reach: the details and assemblies you develop don't stay on one project, they become the standard that other designers reuse across the company for years afterward, long after the original job that prompted them has closed out. You'll be the person other teams call when an envelope condition doesn't have an obvious answer yet, and the person whose sign-off means a detail is genuinely ready to build, not just ready to look finished on paper.

Good work in this role means an assembly you developed shows up correctly on a jobsite months later with no surprises: the thermal performance holds up under real weather, the interfaces with adjacent systems work the way they were drawn, and the crew installing it isn't left guessing at how the pieces are supposed to fit together on site.

You'll spend your time on design assist with clients, building out a shared library of standardized details, and working through the envelope problems that don't have an easy answer yet, the kind that show up when two systems from different divisions meet at a corner or a transition and nobody has drawn that condition before. Some weeks that means sitting with a client team weighing a cladding system against a curtain wall system on cost, schedule, and performance, and helping them understand exactly what they're trading off with each option so the decision is an informed one rather than a guess.

Other weeks it means being on-site with a fabrication crew figuring out why a mockup failed a water test, then going back and updating the standard detail so the next crew, on a different project entirely, doesn't run into the same problem. The people who thrive here own their designs past the drawing stage. When a detail doesn't hold up in the field, they say so, figure out why, and fix the standard so it doesn't happen again, rather than treating the drawing as finished the day it was issued and someone else's problem after that.

Over time, that habit is what turns a personal design decision into a company standard other people can trust without having to re-verify it themselves.

• Salary: $170,000 to $220,000, commensurate with experience. Where you land in that range depends on the depth of your envelope design background, the complexity of the systems you've personally developed, and how much of that experience translates directly to cladding, glazing, curtain wall, and window and door work. Your salary is reviewed periodically as your scope and standing on the standardized detail library grow.
• Annual bonus tied to individual performance and the overall results of the Glazing and Prime Fab group, so your compensation reflects both the quality of your own design work and how the broader team performs over the course of the year. This ties your reward directly to outcomes you can see and influence, not to an abstract company-wide number.
• Comprehensive benefits package covering health, dental, and the other standard group benefits Triumph offers its full-time staff, starting once you clear the standard eligibility period, so you and your family have coverage in place early in your tenure.
• A senior technical role with real influence over how Triumph's envelope systems are designed and standardized company wide, not a role where your drawings sit in a single project folder and are never looked at again once the job closes out. What you build here gets reused.
• Exposure across Cladding, ICI Glazing, Primeline, and Prime Fab, rather than a single product line, so the systems knowledge you build on one assembly compounds across the business instead of staying siloed inside one division. You see how a decision in one product line ripples into another.
• On-site collaboration with fabrication and field teams in the Greater Toronto Area, with occasional visits to plants and job sites so you can see, firsthand, how the systems you design actually get built, installed, and lived…