Principal Design Lead - Architecture

Overview

Lead design excellence, mentor teams, and drive sustainable architecture across BC projects.

Key Responsibilities

• digital design
• design reviews
• integrated design
• sustainable design
• design awards
• talent attraction

Tasks

-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. -Participate and support local practice engagement in the academies with future practitioners teaching, lecturing, speaking, and critiquing. -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. -Active participation in designoriented industry peer groups. -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. -Engage in the attraction and retention of design talent, to support high performance teams. -Support and mentor Designers in the regional practice. -Win and deliver design forward projects by advancing design delivery through integrated design, modeling, coordination, and documentation. -Partner with regional Practice and Operational Leadership to ensure every project has an empowered Design champion -Support sustainable design processes to lower energy demand, embodied and operational carbon in collaboration with the Carbon and Climate team.

Requirements

• architect registration
• architecture degree
• 15+ years
• leadership
• sustainable design
• mentorship

What You Bring

-Strong leadership and design skills to conduct practicebased project pinup and design review and critiques. -Active leadership in professional organizations and community [committees, councils, design review panels, etc] -Effective working relationships with BC leadership and Design Leadership Team -15+ year of experience working with multidisciplinary teams -Registration as an Architect -Demonstrated interest and ability to lead and collaborate with all allied disciplines. -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] -Bachelors degree in architecture -The skills to mentor, lead and motivate designers and design teams. -Active leadership in University design school programs teaching, lecturing, speaking, and critiquing. -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.

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About Stantec

-Began as a one-person environmental engineering practice and has grown through strategic geographic and service expansion. -Publicly listed on the NYSE and TSX, Stantec has completed major acquisitions to bolster expertise and strengthen global infrastructure portfolio. -Headquartered in the iconic Stantec Tower in Edmonton, the company has delivered landmark projects like the Panama Canal Expansion and high-profile community developments. -Leverages interdisciplinary teams of designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers. -Typical projects span urban planning, civil infrastructure, water management, environmental assessment, energy delivery, and architectural design, serving public and private sectors. -Blends technical prowess with visionary design in bold ventures such as designing its own mixed-use tower and leading multi-nation infrastructure projects.

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