Senior Lab Planner, Science and Technology
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
Stantec’s Science + Technology group seeks a Senior Laboratory Planner/Lab Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience in all phases of planning and design of academic and corporate science facilities. Our clients range from local community colleges to Ivy League/Tier One research universities. We also work in partnership with leading corporate, research and development clients. Being a Global company, you will routinely be collaborating with colleagues from across the United States and Canada. We believe that we work better together and strive to elevate scientific discovery through the power of innovative design.
The successful candidate will lead lab planning efforts as part of an integrated team of architects and engineers to design innovative and thoughtful engineering, life science and physical science projects. As part of this role, you will be developing client relationships, mentoring younger staff and contributing to our growth and success in our S&T market and diversifying our client and project base. We are looking for teammates who can create and foster solutions, maintain a fast-paced mindset, and are interested in growing with our world class team of designers and planners.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead laboratory programming and planning for projects and portions of projects.
- Develop Lab Planning content for internal and external presentations, articles and blog posts.
- Lead project teams on large scale projects, responsible for technical execution and discipline coordination on Lab areas of the project.
- Work with teams across multiple Stantec offices.
- Play a key leadership role and be an essential part of a project team working on all phases of design projects from Programming and Schematic Design through Construction Administration in the Academic and Corporate Science & Technology sector.
- Contribute to firm-wide initiatives to help advance our Science & Technology project design, operations, and business development.
- Sustain and grow revenue within the S&T market, helping to achieve top line growth for the business sector, and working collaboratively with the project team to achieve key operational performance metrics.
- Play the role of a seller-doer generating work, creating long-term relationships and delivering long-term value to clients for Stantec.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Extensive Science & Technology lab planning experience (both in size and diversity) that will support the ability to win work during proposal response. – this includes lab planning for ground-up, PI customization and renovation projects.
- Multidisciplinary experience in any or all of the following markets: Higher Education and Corporate/Commercial
- Knowledge of building codes, standards, building construction, and building systems with specific knowledge of science and technology building requirements.
- Demonstrated technical skills on major and technically complex projects.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong business development skills, including significant experience building and maintaining productive relationships with a client base (such experience within a consulting organization in Texas is considered a strong asset).
- Exceptional organization, leadership, communication, and team-building skills.
- An entrepreneurial orientation with strong understanding of the business development challenges of a consulting-services provider.
- Proven success in developing new clients and maintaining strong client relationships.
- Familiarity with industry trends and industry leaders in the Science and Technology sector and Texas.
- Demonstrated capability to lead teams working on projects documented in Revit or AutoCAD.
- Demonstrated experience in working on LEED certified S&T projects or S&T projects with other sustainability goals/credentials. Having a LEED credential is a plus.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering or Interior Design.
- Registration as an Architect.
- 15+ years of experience working with multi-discipline teams with a minimum of ten (10) years related Lab Planning experience. Experience in Biotechnology, Health Science or Semiconductor is a plus.
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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