Design jobs in Canada

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 role as a senior contributor on our Architecture team is to work independently and collaboratively to assist clients through the planning and creation of 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. Our Winnipeg office is looking for a key team member that has experience in health care design and clinical planning with various project types, scales and complexities.

• Responsible for projects of medium complexity/size.
• Inspires creativity, critical thought and design excellence both internally and externally.
• Conceptualizes a building design from both a functional and aesthetic perspective in concert with a client's requirements, budget and program.
• Develops a design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats to express the design intent and communicate to project team, client, and building user groups.
• Utilizes BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of buildings and their components.
• Participates in design critiques and pin-ups.
• Presents the design to stakeholders during early project phases. Develops building design in accordance with cost parameters.
• Develops space planning, block planning, and adjacency diagrams in coordination with building program.
• Evaluates and selects building systems and materials.
• Coordinates building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent.
• Implements sustainable design principles into the design and environment.
• Analyzes site incorporating geotechnical, hydrological, environmental, social, economic and contextual conditions.
• Participates in development of the program and other pre-design efforts.
• Ensures that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction.
• Responsible for leading others in project team setting and design critiques and pin-ups.
• Participates in employee performance reviews and interviews of potential employees.