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

Join a Top 10 global design firm in our Mission Critical Buildings practice that provides Architecture, Buildings Engineering, and Interior Design services with a long history and deep commitment to the sector. We are seeking a Project Architect to join our buildings practice.

Our Sacramento/San Francisco office is seeking a Project Architect to support Mission Critical projects. In this role you will work independently and collaboratively through the planning and creation of fiscally responsible, cutting-edge 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, develop and manage integrated work plans, and coordinate with clients, while leading and mentoring others and collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables as required.

Your Key Responsibilities

Responsible for small to large projects of high complexity.
All of the below are items we would like you to lead, while mentoring others:
The technical portion of the project including discipline coordination and providing technical direction to the design team.
Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and basic cost estimating.
Interpret and apply building codes and requirements of other regulatory agencies.
Prepare and revise documentation in various architectural phases including site plans, floor plans, building elevations, building sections, details.
Participate in bidding and negotiation phase and prepares addenda.
Lead the construction administration phase with the design team, including but not limited to reviewing shop drawings and submittals, responds to RFIs, prepares site observation reports, and other contract administration tasks.
Assist in the preparation and coordination of specs with construction documents.
Participate in constructability review.
Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects.
Strong Revit skills, familiarity with clash coordination strategies a plus.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

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Project Architect - Mission Critical