Hybrid Principal Design Lead – Architecture

at Stantec

• Job title: Principal Design Lead – Architecture
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Calgary, Canada

About the role

• Principal Design Lead overseeing design excellence and innovation for Alberta region at Stantec Buildings. Collaborating with various teams to ensure high-quality and sustainable project delivery.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• The strengths and drive to effectively lead, challenge, and inspire.
• The skills to mentor, lead and motivate designers and design teams.
• Be an inspiring designer and leader attracting and retaining top design talent.
• 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.
• 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]
• Active leadership in professional organizations and community [committees, councils, design review panels, etc]
• Strong leadership and design skills to conduct practice-based project pin-up and design review and critiques.
• Active leadership in University design school programs teaching, lecturing, speaking, and critiquing.
• Commitment to building and evolving a strong, resilient, value-based design culture.
• Effective working relationships with BC leadership and Design Leadership Team
• Active participation in design-oriented industry peer groups.
• Demonstrated interest and ability to lead and collaborate with all allied disciplines.
• Maintain Professional Licensure and specialty certifications/status.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision plans
• Wellness program
• Health care spending account
• Wellness spending account
• Group registered retirement savings plan
• Employee stock purchase program
• Group tax-free savings account
• Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
• Short-term/long-term disability plans
• Emergency travel benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional membership fee coverage
• Paid time off