Intermediate Healthcare Architect

Stantec; Calgary; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Stantec as an Intermediate Healthcare Architect, where you will lead innovative healthcare designs and ensure compliance with industry standards. With 7-10 years of experience, your role involves managing projects from conception to execution while fostering a collaborative environment to deliver exceptional client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years of professional experience focusing on healthcare facilities.
• Proficiency in design software such as Revit and AutoCAD.
• Ability to engage critically, with strong presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the planning and design of healthcare environments from concept to construction.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations and standards.
• Support business development and client meetings.

Skills

Creative thinking

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Education

Professional degree in Architecture (Bachelor’s or Masters)

Registered Architect in Alberta

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Stantec Buildings is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. We take an innovative, collaborative approach to projects, sharing a common belief that sustainable design for the built environment can make the world a better place for future generations. Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Your Opportunity

We have an immediate need for an Intermediate Healthcare Architect with a minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience. The successful candidate will assist in spearheading the planning and implementation of innovative healthcare environments that adhere to provincial and Canadian standards while fostering design excellence. Our ideal candidate is one who has a strong understanding and background in clinical planning, healthcare design, and a deep understanding of healthcare regulations and standards and codes in Canada.

Your role as an Intermediate Healthcare Architect on our Architecture Healthcare Team is to work collectively as a team 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 member of our design team, you will be expected to help reinforce a collaborative and engaging environment for the teams that you assist and co-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 --- 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

• Assist the planning and design of hospitals, clinics, and complex healthcare environments from concept to construction.
• Champion design excellence and integrated design and clinical planning while meeting the functional and compliance with healthcare regulations and standards including infection control, accessibility, and patient safety .
• Co-lead user group meetings and incorporate clinical process understanding into efficient and intuitive spatial solutions.
• 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 Director and or 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.
• Co-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.
• Develop and implement the firm’s brand, image, marketing collateral and business collateral.
• Participate in the production of design award submissions.
• 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.
• Be an 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.
• Be inspiring for those around you.
• Produce design at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent.
• Effectively communicate abstract ideas through strong graphic and verbal communication to the client, their representatives, and the project team.
• Strong presentation and interview skills.
• Ability to produce/assemble drawing presentation packages.
• Ability to produce drawings appropriate to the stage of a project (eg: Sketchup or Rhino, Illustrator, Revit, Enscape or equivalent).
• Participate in a project team setting and bring out the highest value from all team members through strong engagement and co-leadership skills.
• Participate on large complex projects from the development of a design concept through construction.
• Welcome design critiques and respond appropriately and professionally.
• Provide a balanced approach to workloads and staffing demands with good judgement.
• 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.
• Empathize strongly with clients and comprehend problems from their point of view in order to develop solutions that best serve their needs.
• Exhibit maturity and cultural awareness internally and externally.
• Demonstrate general knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.

Education and Experience

• This position requires candidates to possess a professional degree in Architecture (Bachelor’s or Masters).
• Registered Architect (or ability to achieve this through interprovincial reciprocity) in the Province of Alberta is required.
• The position requires a minimum of 7 to 10 years of professional experience, with a focus on healthcare facilities.
• Familiarity with building codes, all regulatory and accessibility requirements for healthcare facilities.

This position requires proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Creative Suite and an understanding of production processes in Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Newforma, Sefaira, Recent modeling software (eg: Rhino, Lumion, Enscape, 3d-Studio-max).

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.#DesignYourPlace

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