Architectural Student

Architectural Student - Summer 2025 - ( 250001Y1 )

**Description**

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.

**Stantec Architecture Winnipeg**

In 2004, with over 70 years of experience serving the community, GBR Architects joined Stantec, becoming Stantec Architecture Winnipeg. Our local integrated architecture and buildings engineering practice brings together a highly motivated, dynamic, and diverse team of Architects, Interior Designers, Structural, Mechanical, Energy, and Electrical Engineers, Sustainably Specialists, and support staff. Working together with our clients in an integrated practice, we believe we are better able to ask the right questions, establish shared positions, and collectively evaluate and advance meaningful solutions that realize the vision while achieving value, program clarity, and technical astuteness.

We are a young, ambitious, growing practice, driven to achieve Design Excellence through Brilliant Delivery founded in Communication, Collaboration, Expertise, Research, Technology, and Culture.

We work in studios, Civic [including Culture and Transportation], Commercial [including Retail, Residential, Hospitality, and Mixed-Use], Defense, Healthcare, Industrial, K-12, Post-Secondary, Sport & Recreation, and Workplace. While our focus is local, our success and the nature of our broader global practice routinely leads to opportunities to travel and work on projects across North America and beyond.

**Your Opportunity**

We are looking for and Architectural Student from April - August 2025 to fulfill the role of Design Support. Working closely and under the direct supervision of the project Principal and Project Architect you will be assisting on a wide range of projects with varying levels of complexity and scale and broad integrated design teams working through all project phases from pre-design through post construction services.

**Your Key Responsibilities**
- Assist with preparing marketing materials including proposals, awards, etc
- Assist with site evaluations including documentation, site and zoning analysis, etc
- Assist with investigating/verifying existing conditions including documentation, measurement, and verification, etc
- Assist with program evaluations
- Participate in client meetings and stakeholder engagement workshops including user group meetings and prepare meeting minutes
- Assist with coordinating project deliverables including schedule, meetings, etc
- Assist with, and/or, develop design options/approach
- Assist with, and/or, develop massing/concept diagrams
- Assist with, and/or, develop block planning and building plans
- Assist with, and/or, develop renderings
- Assist with BIM model set up, and utilizing BIM technologies to design and develop projects
- Participate in design reviews
- Assist with the evaluation and selection of building systems and materials
- Assist with preparing Project/Design Reports including graphic communication, writing, and coordination
- Assist with developing Schematic Design Documents including drawings and outline specifications
- Assist with coordinating building systems
- Assist with implementing sustainable design principles
- Assist with developing Design Development Documents including drawings and outline specifications
- Assist with developing Contract Documents including drawings and coordinating specifications
- Assist with preparing Addenda
- Assist with Supplemental Instructions, Contemplated Change Notices, Change Orders, and Change Directives
- Assist with preparing Record Drawings
- Assist with ensuring the design intent/vision is maintained throughout from conception through system and material selection, visualization, implementation, documentation, coordination, and construction.

**Qualifications**

**Your Capabilities and Credentials**
- Excellent verbal, written, and graphic communication skills
- Humble, driven to achieve Design Excellence Delivered Brilliantly, and collaborative with a High EQ
- Ability to engage and work within a creative and critical integrated design practice
- Interest in holistic design, systems thinking, construction, materials, sustainability, and technical design detailing
- Ability to produce design at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent.
- Ability to participate in project team settings.
- Ability to check work of others for accuracy and completeness, and manage team to meet project budget and schedule.
- General knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.
- General unders