Senior Project Architect

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Ability to engage in creative and critical thought.
• Be inspiring for those around you.
• Produce design at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent.
• Effectively communicate abstract ideas through strong graphic and verbal communication to the client, their representatives, and the project team.
• Strong presentation and interview skills.
• Ability to produce/assemble drawing presentation packages.
• Ability to produce drawings appropriate to the stage of a project (eg: Sketchup or Rhino, Illustrator, Revit, Enscape or equivalent).
• Participate in a project team setting and bring out the highest value from all team members through strong engagement and leadership skills.
• Actively lead several teams simultaneously on large complex projects from the development of a design concept through construction.
• Welcome design critiques and respond appropriately and professionally.
• Inspire confidence and garner trust and respect with the project team and with clients.
• Provide a balanced approach to workloads and staffing demands with good judgement.
• Check work of others for accuracy and completeness and manage teams to meet project budget and schedule.
• Scale process, design and effort to various roles on the project, the needs of the project, and other conditions.
• Interpret sketches, drawings, codes, building program and other similar material.
• Empathize strongly with clients and comprehend problems from their point of view in order to develop solutions that best serve their needs.
• Exhibit maturity and cultural awareness internally and externally.
• Demonstrate general knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.

Education and Experience

• This position requires candidates to possess a professional degree in Architecture (Bachelor’s or Masters). 
• Registered Architect (or ability to achieve this through interprovincial reciprocity) in the Province of Alberta is required. 
• The position requires a minimum of 15 years of professional experience, demonstrating experience leading projects and developing business.
•  Experience in providing consulting services to Higher Education / Post-Secondary clients will be an asset.
• This position requires proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Creative Suite and an understanding of production processes in Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Newforma, Sefaira, Recent modeling software (eg: Rhino, Lumion, Enscape, 3d-Studio-max).

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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