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Your Opportunity
The Stantec office in Yellowknife, NT has an opportunity for an Architect to become part of our integrated / multi-disciplinary Architecture and Engineering practice.

As a key contributor on our professional Architecture team in Northern Canada, you will work both collaboratively and independently to assist clients through the planning and creation of fiscally responsible, award-winning designs. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with construction plans, specifications, estimates and building codes. You will be innovating and creating new prototypes designed with sustainable products with green architecture sensibility as your goals. You will lead the development of integrated design proposals, continuous updating of a building information model, preparing a variety of output / drawings throughout the project, while leading and mentoring others and collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Managing complex tasks on multiple, large scope, highly complex projects
• Effectively participates and helps to win work in interviews for potential projects
• Plans, organizes, and directs the work throughout the life of the project to successfully deliver the project to the client
• Keeps the Principal in Charge informed of progress on project expectations, deadlines, and deliverables and understands the limits of the decision-making responsibilities of the role and respects the boundaries of the Principal in Charge's responsibilities
• Assists in the negotiation and development of project agreements
• Develops and manages project budget, schedule, and overall work plan to realize target financial performance
• Mentors assistant Project Managers and motivates project teams
• Assures that Project Management Framework tasks are timely completed and properly documented
• Leads project coordination and owner/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors
• Manages and tracks change orders, applications for payment by contractors and other contractual modifications impacting budget and schedule
• Ability to conduct senior peer review of deliverables, including Building Condition Assessments and Tender Documents
• Works with Operations Manager in determining project staffing needs and recommending personnel
• Travel to small communities to conduct building condition assessments or review construction progress
• Directs client invoicing and effectively manages collections

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Extensive project experience supporting our team's ability to win work during proposal responses
• Capable of simultaneously supporting one or more Principal's in Charge on multiple projects
• Ability to prepare design and building condition assessment reports
• Excellent understanding of accessibility codes, life-safety codes, northern building construction systems, means and methods, materials, and industry associated standards
• Proactively takes appropriate action without requiring continued direction or guidance
• Effectively manages multiple deadlines and priorities
• Team player with the client, entire project team and contractor
• Excellent negotiator and communicator
• Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite; prefer experience with Revit, AutoCAD and SketchUp

Education and Experience

• The role requires a professional degree in Architecture and a minimum of 10 years of related work experience.
• Registered or able to become registered within one year, as an Architect with the Northwest Territories Association of Architects (NWTAA) or another Canadian Architects Association. Preferential credentials include: a LEED Green Associate or LEED AP, Lean project management or PMP, Contract Administration or Certified Specification Writer, and/or related Building Science or Technical.

Typical office environment working with computers. Hybrid work arrangements may be considered. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

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.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.