Residential Design Lead — Revit/AutoCAD (Single-Family)

DMC Recruitment; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DMC Recruitment presents an Architectural Design Lead opportunity in Calgary or Edmonton. The role combines hands-on residential design leadership with managing a small team to deliver construction-ready drawings for single-family projects.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in production, modular, or custom homes, with strong Revit and AutoCAD skills and a track record of leading design teams in a fast-paced Western Canadian home-building environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of architectural design or architectural technology focused on single-family residential construction.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate workloads, project priorities, design schedules and team deliverables.
• Establish and maintain drafting standards, quality-control procedures and efficient design workflows.
• Review drawings for technical accuracy, consistency and constructability; provide guidance to team members.
• Collaborate with construction, estimating, purchasing, sales and operations teams to align design outputs with project requirements.
• Lead and contribute to single-family production, modular and custom residential home designs.
• Prepare, review and coordinate working drawings, permit packages, architectural details and construction documentation using Revit and AutoCAD.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously within a high-volume residential production environment.
• Develop and maintain standardized plans, elevations, construction details, templates and design libraries.
• Coordinate design changes, customization requests and consultant input, including structural and building-system requirements.
• Support value engineering, design efficiencies, material optimization and practical construction solutions.
• Ensure designs meet applicable building codes, municipal requirements, zoning bylaws and development guidelines.

Skills

Leadership

Project coordination

Quality control

Team mentorship

Communication

Construction knowledge

Education

Diploma or degree in Architectural Technology/Architecture

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

Job description

DMC Recruitment presents an Architectural Design Lead opportunity in Calgary or Edmonton. The role combines hands-on residential design leadership with managing a small team to deliver construction-ready drawings for single-family projects.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in production, modular, or custom homes, with strong Revit and AutoCAD skills and a track record of leading design teams in a fast-paced Western Canadian home-building environment.