Principal Design Lead - Architecture

Description

• Actively engage with the regional practice, driving design culture, quality and brand across all sectors.
• 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.
• Partner with regional Practice and Operational Leadership to ensure every project has an empowered Design champion
• Support digital design practice and delivery in collaboration with the Design Computing team.
• Active participation in designoriented industry peer groups.
• Support a culture of design discourse, learning, professional development, and growth.
• Organize, schedule, conduct and document Project PinUps to ensure work aligns with our Five Principles of Design Excellence and establish sustainable design through multidisciplinary 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 and mentor Designers in the regional practice.
• Support sustainable design processes to lower energy demand, embodied and operational carbon in collaboration with the Carbon and Climate team.
• Maintain Professional Licensure and specialty certifications/status.
• Engage in the attraction and retention of design talent, to support high performance teams.
• Participate and support local practice engagement in the academies with future practitioners teaching, lecturing, speaking, and critiquing.
• Win and deliver design forward projects by advancing design delivery through integrated design, modeling, coordination, and documentation.

Requirements

• Strong leadership and design skills to conduct practicebased project pinup and design review and critiques.
• Possess a portfolio of outstanding design work including documentation, publication, presentations, citations, and awards.
• Demonstrated interest and ability to lead and collaborate with all allied disciplines.
• Possess strong communications skills and advocate our design perspective internally and externally including speaking and presenting [Academia, Conferences, Podcasts, Forums, Panels, etc]
• Active leadership in professional organizations and community [committees, councils, design review panels, etc]
• The skills to mentor, lead and motivate designers and design teams.
• 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]
• Effective working relationships with BC leadership and Design Leadership Team
• Active leadership in University design school programs teaching, lecturing, speaking, and critiquing.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance