Hybrid Senior Architect

at Stantec

• Job title: Senior Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $85,700 - $124,300 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Baton Rouge, United States

About the role

• Senior Architect designing medium complexity projects at Stantec's innovative integrated design practice. Collaborating on green architecture and sustainable building design.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to project teams by guiding and overseeing the effective use of Revit, promoting consistency, efficiency, and best practices.
• Demonstrates advanced proficiency in Revit to produce high-quality construction documents across all project phases.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or related field & Registered Architect.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a licensed architect.
• Ability to engage in creative and critical thought.
• To produce design at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent.
• To hand sketch and communicate concepts and ideas to others effectively.
• To participate in project team setting.
• To lead one or more teams on medium size projects through the development of design concept.
• To check work of others for accuracy and completeness, and manage team to meet project budget and schedule.
• To interpret sketches, drawings, codes, building program and other similar material.
• To present abstract ideas to the client and client representatives.
• To apply accessibility codes, applicable building codes, and life-safety codes to a wide variety of project scopes and complexity.
• General knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.
• General understanding of the relationship between drawings and specifications.
• Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite, Revit, AutoCAD, Abobe Creative Suite, SketchUP, Newforma, Sefaira, Recent modeling software; Prefer experience with 3D Printer, Laser cutter.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision plans
• 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
• paid family leave
• ten paid holidays in each calendar year
• vacation between 10 and 20 days per year
• paid sick leave