Senior Transit Design Manager

Stantec Buildings is on a mission to become the world's leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. We take an innovative, collaborative approach to projects, sharing a common belief that sustainable design for the built environment can make the world a better place for future generations. Join us and design your place with Stantec.
Your Opportunity
Your role as a senior contributor on our professional Architecture team is to work collaboratively 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 possess a demonstrated ability to successfully lead project teams thru all phase of the design and will be the main contact with client, consultants and building officials. You will take the lead in the development, documentation, coordination, and overall technical design of multiple projects simultaneously.
Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for complex tasks on multiple, large scope, highly complex projects.
• Effectively participates and helps to win work in interviews for potential projects.
• Helps to plan, organize, and direct 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.
• Works with the project team and the client to ensure that the project design meets the client budget, schedule, program, and design intent.
• 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 and motivates project teams.
• Assures that Project Management Framework tasks are timely completed and properly documented.
• Supports project coordination and owner/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors.
• Works with Operations Leader in determining project staffing needs and recommending personnel.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Strong knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards and codes.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Office Suite, Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUP, Newforma, Lumion, Recent modeling software.
• Strong Building code knowledge.

Education and Experience

• Degree in Architecture or related field. Minimum of 30 years of experience. Experience in Transit projects is required.

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.

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.

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