Stantec

Principal Design Lead – Architecture

Stantec

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Calgary • Canada

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Actively engage with the regional practice, driving design culture, quality and brand across all sectors.
  • Win and deliver design forward projects by advancing design delivery through integrated design, modeling, coordination, and documentation.
  • Support and mentor Designers in the regional practice.
  • Engage in the attraction and retention of design talent, to support high performance teams.
  • Support a culture of design discourse, learning, professional development, and growth.
  • Partner with regional Practice and Operational Leadership to ensure every project has an empowered Design champion.
  • Organize, schedule, conduct and document Project Pin-Ups to ensure work aligns with our Five Principles of Design Excellence and establish sustainable design through multi-disciplinary reviews. Target 25 reviews through a calendar year.
  • Advance Design Thinking actively participating in the practice wide Design Forum and Design Excellence calls, and regional town halls.
  • Support digital design practice and delivery in collaboration with the Design Computing team.
  • Support sustainable design processes to lower energy demand, embodied and operational carbon in collaboration with the Carbon and Climate team.
  • Advance a design portfolio of outstanding projects, positioning and winning work with high design potential, designing, delivering, documenting, photographing, publishing, presenting, and submitting for design awards obtaining recognition for Design Excellence.
  • Participate and support local practice engagement in the academies with future practitioners teaching, lecturing, speaking, and critiquing.

Requirements

  • The strengths and drive to effectively lead, challenge, and inspire.
  • The skills to mentor, lead and motivate designers and design teams.
  • Be an inspiring designer and leader attracting and retaining top design talent.
  • Possess strong communications skills and advocate our design perspective internally and externally including speaking and presenting [Academia, Conferences, Podcasts, Forums, Panels, etc]
  • Possess a portfolio of outstanding design work including documentation, publication, presentations, citations, and awards.
  • Demonstrated evidence of collaborative, sustainable, holistic design with a ‘green’ portfolio of projects achieving high sustainability standards [Passive House, ZCB, WELL, Living Building Challenge, Net Zero, LEED, etc]
  • Active leadership in professional organizations and community [committees, councils, design review panels, etc]
  • Strong leadership and design skills to conduct practice-based project pin-up and design review and critiques.
  • Active leadership in University design school programs teaching, lecturing, speaking, and critiquing.
  • Commitment to building and evolving a strong, resilient, value-based design culture.
  • Effective working relationships with BC leadership and Design Leadership Team
  • Active participation in design-oriented industry peer groups.
  • Demonstrated interest and ability to lead and collaborate with all allied disciplines.
  • Maintain Professional Licensure and specialty certifications/status.
Benefits
  • Health, dental, and vision plans
  • Wellness program
  • Health care spending account
  • Wellness spending account
  • Group registered retirement savings plan
  • Employee stock purchase program
  • Group tax-free savings account
  • Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
  • Short-term/long-term disability plans
  • Emergency travel benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Professional membership fee coverage
  • Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
design deliverydesign documentationdesign modelingdesign coordinationsustainable designdesign portfoliodesign awardsdesign critiquedesign thinkingdigital design
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationinspirationcollaborationmotivationadvocacyrelationship buildingteachingpublic speaking
Certifications
Professional LicensurePassive HouseZCBWELLLiving Building ChallengeNet ZeroLEED