Design Coordinator - Retail
Stantec · Chicago
- 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
Stantec is seeking passionate architects and interior designers, working under the guidance of a Senior Designer and/or Architect. This is an intermediate level Architect and/or Designer role. You will be developing space plans, site plans, and design and construction documents based on client standards, including floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, finish plans, furniture plans, elevations, sections, and architectural details. Adaptation and development of non-standard details to meet the requirements of a specific space or project.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Validation of programmatic elements and information provided by client.
- Supports and participates with the team in development of schematic design and design development deliverables.
- Utilizes BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of buildings and their components.
- Performs on-site field verifications and measurements of existing buildings and spaces.
- Participates in design critiques and pin-ups.
- Interprets and applies building and zoning codes and requirements of other regulatory agencies to individual projects.
- Prepares and revises documentation in various architectural phases including floor plans, elevations, sections, and schedules, building elevations, building sections, and details.
- Coordinates and reviews building systems (structural, mechanical, electrical, etc.) to ensure compatibility with the design intent.
- Reviews shop drawings and submittals, responds to RFIs, performs punch walks, prepares site observation reports, and other contract administration tasks.
- Coordination of specs with construction documents.
- Assists in the evaluation and selection of building systems and materials.
Attends project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants and clients.
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.