Job Description

Architect - ( 230002AY )

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

As a key contributor on our professional Architecture team in the Northern Territories, you will work both collaboratively and independently to assist clients through the planning and creation of fiscally responsible, award-winning designs. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with construction plans, specifications, estimates and building codes. 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

Managing complex tasks on multiple, large scope, highly complex projects.

Effectively participates and helps to win work in interviews for potential projects.

Plans, organizes, and directs the work throughout the life of the project to successfully deliver the project to the client.

Keeps the Principal in Charge informed of progress on project expectations, deadlines, and deliverables and understands the limits of the decision-making responsibilities of the role and respects the boundaries of the Principal in Charge\'s responsibilities.

Assists in the negotiation and development of project agreements.

Develops and manages project budget, schedule, and overall work plan to realize target financial performance.

Mentors Assistant Project Managers and motivates project teams.

Assures that Project Management Framework tasks are timely completed and properly documented.

Leads project coordination and owner/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors.

Manages and tracks change orders, applications for payment by contractors and other contractual modifications impacting budget and schedule.

Works with Operations Manager in determining project staffing needs and recommending personnel.

Directs client invoicing and effectively manages collections.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Extensive project experience supporting our team\'s ability to win work during proposal responses.

Capable of simultaneously supporting one or more Principal\'s in Charge on multiple projects.

Excellent understanding of accessibility codes, life-safety codes, building construction systems, means and methods, materials, and industry associated standards.

Proactively takes appropriate action without requiring continued direction or guidance.

Effectively manages multiple deadlines and priorities.

Team player with the client, entire project team and contractor.

Excellent negotiator and communicator.

Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite; Prefer experience with Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp.

Education and Experience

The role requires a professional degree in Architecture, a minimum of 6 years of related work experience, and a Registered Architect.

Preferential credentials include: a LEED Green Associate or LEED AP, Lean project management or PMP, Contract Administration or Certified Specification Writer, and/or related Building Science or Technical.

Healthcare Experience is preferred.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

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.

Benefits Summary: Full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

Primary Location : Canada-Northwest Territories-Yellowknife

Other Locations : Canada-Yukon-Whitehorse

Organization : BC-1449 Buildings-CA North

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : May 29, 2023, 7:14:18 AM

Req ID: 230002AY

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans

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