Senior Architect-Transit Facilities

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

Stantec specializes in Transit Facility design work throughout California and North America, planning and designing bus and rail stations, operations, and maintenance facilities, multimodal transit centers, BRT and park-n-ride facilities. We lead the North American transit and civic markets in the design of highly sustainable buildings and environments. We focus on providing transformational design solutions that exceed our clients’ aspirations through interdisciplinary collaboration. We are passionate about creating meaningful projects that create tremendous value for the clients, users, and public. Our awards are a testament to our commitment to great design, the human experience, and the environment we live in. We provide a unique opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary office, connecting our architects and engineers from all over the World.

We are looking for a SENIOR ARCHITECT who shares our interest and expertise in transit, infrastructure, and civic projects. We are looking for a dynamic leader to help build this practice in the SF Bay Area and Northern California. As a senior contributor on our professional Transit Architecture team, you will work collaboratively with Stantec senior leadership to assist clients through the planning and creation of fiscally responsible, highly sustainable, award-winning designs. You will cultivate client relationships and provide strategic input to Stantec leadership. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with construction plans, specifications, estimates and building codes. You will lead and coordinate a multi-disciplined team of planners, architects and engineers focused on creating great design solutions. You will lead the development of integrated design proposals, coordinating building information models, preparing a variety of contract deliverables throughout the project, while leading and mentoring others and collaborating with team members to contribute to the success of the project.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing complex tasks on multiple, large scale, highly complex projects.
• Effectively lead and participate to win work in interviews for potential projects.
• Plan, organize, and direct the work throughout the life of the project to successfully deliver the project to the client.
• Lead the client and project team to assure that the project design meets the client budget, schedule, program, and design intent.
• Negotiate and develop project agreements alongside Stantec leadership.
• Develop and manage project budget, schedule, and overall work plan to realize target financial performance.
• Cultivate client relationships and provide strategic input to Stantec leadership.
• Mentor multi-discipline staff and motivate project teams.
• Lead project coordination and owner/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors.
• Manage and track change orders, applications for payment by contractors and other contractual modifications impacting budget and schedule.
• Work with Stantec Operations Manager in determining project staffing needs and recommending personnel.
• Direct client invoicing and effectively manages collections.