Project Architect - Buildings
Stantec · Portland
Your Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced and technically focused Project Architect to support the continued growth of our Buildings practice. This role offers the opportunity to lead the Architectural development of complex, technically sophisticated projects for national and international clients while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate is a collaborative and detail-oriented professional with strong technical capabilities, leadership skills, and a passion for design quality, project execution, and team development.
As a Project Architect, you will contribute from early planning and conceptual development through construction administration and project completion. This role requires a strong understanding of technical coordination, construction documentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and project delivery within complex mission critical environments.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Translate concepts into clear technical documentation using Revit and visualization tools
- Develop practical, technically sound design solutions aligned with project goals and client needs
- Support site planning, entitlements, and approvals with civil and consultant teams
- Prepare and manage construction documents from schematic design through construction administration
- Coordinate architectural and engineering documentation, including technical reviews, detailing, redlines, QA/QC, and interdisciplinary coordination
- Assist with project schedules, scopes, staffing plans, and fee tracking
- Mentor team members and promote collaboration, accountability, and growth
- Perform code analysis, material evaluations, specification coordination, and technical research
- Support bidding and construction administration, including RFIs, submittals, and field observations
- Stay current on codes, sustainable design practices, building technologies, and construction methods
- Clearly communicate technical and design solutions through presentations and stakeholder coordination
- Support business development through client interaction, presentations, and marketing efforts
- Maintain technical quality, documentation accuracy, and constructability across all project phases
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.