Senior Architect, Health Sciences

NORR Architects Engineers Planners; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NORR Architects Engineers Planners in Toronto is seeking a senior Architect to lead design delivery on healthcare projects, guiding the design team through all phases and ensuring solutions meet context, budget, and quality expectations.

The firm emphasizes innovation and sustainable design, requires extensive project experience, proficiency with Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp and Photoshop, and registration with a professional architectural association; education project experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience in all phases of the project cycle is required.
• Proficiency with Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop, and related design software.
• Familiarity with MEP and structural building systems and building codes is required.
• Post-secondary education in architecture or related field.
• Registration with a relevant architectural association.
• 15+ years of project work experience.
• Experience in Education projects is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Compile information from reports and published documents; evaluating and analyzing the information to understand broad requirements of project.
• Develop architectural designs, to ensure an exemplary solution is delivered that meets quality parameters, project timelines and budgetary requirements.
• Coordinating design intent with other disciplines.
• Integrating engineering requirements, site surveys and field review information, adhering to applicable codes and jurisdictional requirements.
• Preparing design reports, drawings and models following office standards.
• Performing site visitations to determine compliance with construction documents; identifies any deviations and liaises with owner and contactor to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Reviewing project products, services, and shop drawings to ensure adherence to project documents, relevant jurisdictional codes and corporate quality controls.

Skills

Project lifecycle experience

Team collaboration

Design coordination

Education

Post-secondary education

Professional architectural registration

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Photoshop

Job description

This is an exciting time to join our team. As we continue to grow, we are looking for talented professionals who are ready to contribute, collaborate with exceptional colleagues, and help shape the future of the built environment. If you are looking for a place where your expertise will be valued, your career can grow, and your work will make a difference, we invite you to explore what is possible with us.

We empower our employees to choose where they work whether remotely, from home or from one of our office locations because we believe flexibility, trust, and collaboration drive great results.

We bring informed programming and design excellence to the forefront of every healthcare project. Guided by human-centric and evidence-based design, our team believes in creating healing environments, placing patients at the center of their care. We identify emerging influences, forecasting adoption of technology and fully understand the implications of market dynamic forces, such as value-based care, integrated practice units and other opportunities that require alignment in the ways that we deliver care. Learn more about our Health Sciences Portfolio. As an Architect, you will work with other members of the design team in order to develop design solutions appropriate to the context, budget and aesthetic requirements of architectural projects. You will collaborate with other professional disciplines and have opportunities to coordinate the design through all phases of the project.

You Will Make an Impact by

• Compiling information from reports and published documents; evaluating and analyzing the information to understand broad requirements of project
• Developing architectural designs, to ensure an exemplary solution is delivered that meets quality parameters, project timelines and budgetary requirements
• Coordinating design intent with other disciplines
• Integrating engineering requirements, site surveys and field review information, adhering to applicable codes and jurisdictional requirements
• Preparing design reports, drawings and models following office standards
• Performing site visitations to determine compliance with construction documents; identifies any deviations and liaises with owner and contactor to resolve issues in a timely manner
• Reviewing project products, services, and shop drawings to ensure adherence to project documents, relevant jurisdictional codes and corporate quality controls

You Will Bring to the Team

• Experience in all phases of the project cycle is required
• Architectural design software skills including Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, PhotoShop, and other architectural design software
• Familiarity with MEP and Structural building systems and building codes is required
• Have successfully completed related post-secondary education
• Registered with a relevant professional architectural association
• 15+ years of project work experience
• Experience in Education projects is an asset

We are:

The spaces we design and the technology we embrace shape how people live, work, learn, and connect. As an employee-owned, integrated Architecture and Engineering company, you will collaborate with talented professionals on projects that make a lasting impact on communities across Canada, the US, and the UK.

At NORR we are committed to innovation, advancing sustainable design and helping our clients reduce environmental impact, and shaping a net-zero future. We invest in our employees by fostering continuous learning, encouraging innovative thinking, and creating opportunities to solve complex challenges, grow professionally and build meaningful careers.

The hiring base salary range for this vacant position is $105,000.00 - $140,000.00 annually. Actual compensation will be based on several factors such as education, experience, internal equity and skills.

NORR is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic: Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.