Principal Architect - Post Secondary Education
Stantec · Calgary
Your Opportunity
We have an immediate need for a Principal-level Project Architect with Post-Secondary experience. The successful candidate should be passionate about Post-Secondary Architecture and endeavor to bring collaborative, curious, and creative solutions to all projects. This is an exciting opportunity for those looking for a leadership opportunity and career advancement within our Education studio.
Your role as a Principal Architect on our professional Architecture team is to work independently to assist clients through the planning and creation of projects that are rooted in a deep understanding of our client’s needs, are fiscally responsible, and represent design excellence. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with the design process from inception through close-out, code and regulatory requirements, contract documentation, estimates and building codes. You will participate in diverse project teams successfully throughout the design process, managing workflow and production activities, while ensuring client satisfaction with the process and product. You will assist in business development activities, nurturing existing client accounts and seeking to grow our client base through building new relationships and project pursuits.
As a leader on our design team, you will be expected to help reinforce a collaborative and engaging environment for the teams that you lead while also ensuring design excellence, exceptional project delivery, and the highest levels of client satisfaction across Alberta. You will be expected to have a strong foundation of project management skills, but also an understanding that management of the design process requires hands on problem solving, a growth mindset, a willingness to be inclusive of all perspectives, and the ability to see challenges as opportunities, not problems. As a professional, you are expected to display the highest moral conduct and ethical standards.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Advocate and inspire creativity, critical thought and design excellence both internally and externally.
- Ensure that the overall design intent of the project established by the Project Designer is incorporated into the detailed documentation.
- Monitor the design process from conceptual phase through construction administration, ensuring the design idea is consistent and properly executed.
- Lead communication with other disciplines, vendors, and contractors to ensure incorporation of all information into project requirements and provides support as necessary.
- Take an active role in the production of project deliverables.
- Meet with clients and conduct presentations.
- Support Business Development activities, including marketing proposals, interview, conference attendance, etc.
- Assist in identification and recruiting of design staff at all levels.
- Foster collaboration between Stantec offices while promoting design culture.
- Act as a mentor, teacher and coach to junior design staff and interns with the goal of growing and guiding them through their careers.
- Evaluate the quality of design and design activities and assure a high level of design quality throughout the firm.
- Develop and implement the firm’s brand, image, marketing collateral and business collateral.
- Participate in performance reviews including setting of career goals.
- Oversee and participate in the production of design award submissions.
- Engage staff in dialog on design, ensure design process is followed and influence usage of technological tools.
- Act as a vehicle for the delivery of the firm’s message on design.
- Express both the design philosophy of the work and technical requirements of the projects with appropriate vocabulary.
- Identify and direct project photography, written descriptions, and other media in support of building the firm’s portfolio.
- Be an ambassador and steward of the firm’s portfolio of work with ability to guide and educate others.
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.