Senior Project Architect - Healthcare
About the role
Stantec's thriving Healthcare practice is adding an Architect to their San Francisco, CA team. It is an exciting opportunity where 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.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for projects of large and medium 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 in collaboration with a team via mediums such as 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.
- Evaluate and select building systems and materials.
- Cookordinate 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.
Qualifications
- Passionate about designing the built environment.
- Engage in creative and critical thought.
- Hand sketch and communicate concepts and ideas to others effectively.
- Lead and collaborate in project team setting.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
- Lead one or more teams on medium size projects through the development of design concept.
- Check work of others for accuracy and completeness and manage team to meet project budget and schedule.
- Interpret sketches, drawings, codes, building program and other similar material.
- Apply accessibility codes, applicable building codes, and life-safety codes to a wide variety of project scopes and complexity.
- Produce and deliver design and documentation in highly collaborative BIM strategy.
- Strong knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.
- Strong understanding of the relationship between drawings and specifications.
- Ability To engage in creative and critical thought.
- Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects.
- Prepares and ensures that work conforms to project budget, schedule, and overall work planning.
- Understanding of Microsoft Office Suite, Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, Newforma, Bluebeam, Recent modeling software; Prefer experience with 3D Printer, Laser cutter.
Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture.
- Licensed Architect in California is ideal.
- LEED Green Associate or LEED AP preferred.
- Healthcare (OSHPD/HCAI) experience is desired.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- A wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave.
Pay
Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.
Schedule
Full time
Primary Location
United States | CA | San Francisco