Project Architect - Healthcare

Stantec; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec's Healthcare practice in Sacramento is seeking an Architect to guide a team of design coordinators through all phases of design and construction. You will collaborate with Project Manager and Design Leader to deliver functional, aesthetic, and sustainable building solutions for acute and sub-acute healthcare facilities.

You will lead space planning, BIM modeling, and coordination with consultants, contractors, and owners, while ensuring design intent, cost parameters, and project

Responsibilities

• Responsible for projects of all complexity/size.
• Inspire 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.
• Develop 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.
• Participate in design critiques and constructability reviews.
• Present the design with the Project Manager and collaborating Design Architect to stakeholders during early project phases. Develops building design in accordance with cost parameters.
• Develop space planning, block planning, and adjacency diagrams in coordination with building program.
• Evaluate and select building systems and materials.
• Coordinate building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent.
• Implement sustainable design principles into the design and environment.
• Analyze site incorporating geotechnical, hydrological, environmental, social, economic and contextual conditions.
• Participate in development of the program and other pre-design efforts.
• Ensure that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction.
• Responsible for leading others in project team setting and design critiques and pin-ups

Job description

Stantec's thriving Healthcare practice is adding an Architect to their team in Sacramento. Your role will be to collaborate with the Project Manager and any Design Leader to guide a team of design coordinators through all phases of Design and Construction.

You will support all aspects of the project process from validation/pre-design through construction administration and close-out within but not limited to Acute and Sub Acute Healthcare projects. Coordination with consultants, contractors, and Owners will be a part of your weekly activities to manage projects. Along with your Project Manager, you will support multiple projects at any time, within various phases of design and construction.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for projects of all complexity/size.
• Inspire 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.
• Develop 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.
• Participate in design critiques and constructability reviews.
• Present the design with the Project Manager and collaborating Design Architect to stakeholders during early project phases. Develops building design in accordance with cost parameters.
• Develop space planning, block planning, and adjacency diagrams in coordination with building program.
• Evaluate and select building systems and materials.
• Coordinate building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent.
• Implement sustainable design principles into the design and environment.
• Analyze site incorporating geotechnical, hydrological, environmental, social, economic and contextual conditions.
• Participate in development of the program and other pre-design efforts.
• Ensure that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction.
• Responsible for leading others in project team setting and design critiques and pin-ups