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. You will support all aspects of the project process from validation/pre-design through construction administration and close-out within but not limited to Non Acute, 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 may support more than one project at a time depending on the size of the project and within various phases of design and construction.

Your Key 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• 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.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture
• Licensed Architect in California is ideal
• Minimum 10 years of experience, preferably on large teams with healthcare or institutional clients.
• LEED Green Associate or LEED AP preferred.
• Healthcare (OSHPD/HCAI) experience is desired.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.