Job Description

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

Your role as a senior contributor on our professional Architecture team is to work independently to assist clients through the planning and creation of fiscally responsible, award-winning designs, and to lead projects through the construction administration phase. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with construction plans, specifications, estimates and building codes, permitting processes, contract administration procedures, and project closeout requirements. You will be innovating and creating new prototypes designed with sustainable products with green architecture sensibility as your goals. You will lead the development of integrated design proposals, continuous updating of a building information model, preparing a variety of output / drawings throughout the project, while leading and mentoring others and collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables as required under instruction from the Project Leader.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead project teams as a Job Captain for projects of various size and complexity.
• Lead the construction administration phase of projects, performing field reviews, issuing direction to contractors, and administering the contract documents.
• Engage with contractors at the pre-construction phase for constructability reviews and budget alignment.
• Advocate and inspire creativity, critical thought and technical excellence both internally and externally.
• Support Business Development activities, including preparing proposal submission, interviews, conference attendance, communicating to building industry leaders etc.
• May assist in identification, recruiting, and interviewing of technologist staff at all levels.
• Fosters collaboration between offices while promoting and providing design vision as it relates to building technology and systems.
• Act as a mentor, teacher and coach to design staff with the goal of growing and guiding them through their careers.
• Evaluate the quality of technical design and activities and assure a high level of technological quality throughout the firm.
• Participate in performance reviews including setting of job goals.
• Assist in production of design award submissions.
• Engages staff in dialog on technology and building systems to ensure process is followed and influences usage of technological tools.
• Acts as a vehicle for the delivery of firm’s message on building technology and systems.
• Express philosophy of the work with appropriate vocabulary.
• Responsible for leading others in project team setting and design critiques and pin-ups.
• Ambassador and steward of the firm’s portfolio of work with ability to guide and educate others.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Ability to engage in creative and critical thought.
• Produce design at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent.
• Communicate concepts and ideas to others effectively through drawing markups and technical reviews.
• Participate or lead in project team setting.
• Lead multiple teams as Job Captain on medium to large size projects through the development of design concept as it relates to building technology and systems.
• Lead the Construction Administration phase of projects.
• Receive criticism and respond appropriately and professionally.
• Inspire confidence and garner trust and respect with the project team and clients.
• Provide a balanced approach and good judgement.
• Check work of others for technical accuracy and completeness and manage team to meet project budget and schedule.
• Scale process, design and effort to various roles on the project, the needs of the project, and other conditions.
• Interpret sketches, drawings, codes, building program and other similar material. Strong presentation and interview skills.
• Thorough understanding of historical values and context.
• Exhibit maturity and cultural awareness internally and externally.
• Comprehensive knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.
• Requires solid understanding of Microsoft Office Suite, Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUP, Newforma, Revizto , and other modeling software;
• Experience with construction industry software platforms such as Procore is an asset.
  

Education and Experience

Associate's degree or technical school in Building or Architectural Technology or equivalent in related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Minimum of 8 years of experience, including contract administration. Registration (or eligibility to be registered) with the AIBC is preferred.

Position will primarily work in an office setting; may require some field work.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.