Computational Designer, Innovation - ( 230000XF )

Description

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works behind the scenes to support operational excellence. As part of the Innovation Office, the Digital Technology & Innovation team is composed of digital experts who conduct research and development to keep our teams—and our client’s projects—ahead of the technological curve. They implement established technologies and find emerging solutions for all business lines (Buildings, Energy & Resources, Environmental Services, Infrastructure, and Water), bridging existing knowledge domains and facilitating the integration of powerful tools and methods. The team’s goals are to digitalize our organization, support Stantec’s digital transformation, and to increase the capacity of our designers, engineers, and scientists, providing higher-quality results and solutions to our clients.

Your Opportunity

The Innovation Office’s Digital Technology & Innovation (DTI) team has a job opening for an individual to serve as a Computational Designer. This position is part of the Design/Delivery Technology group as part of the DTI team, and will help lead the firm’s digital transformation in design automation, computational design strategies, and BIM technologies by providing guidance, technological vision, and solution development. This group specifically utilizes visual scripting to apply computational strategies to the design process across our architecture, engineering, and science disciplines, and specializes in BIM, CAD, and digital twin technology from a design/delivery perspective. This position is for a person who has demonstrated excellence in computational design capabilities, is experienced in design/delivery technologies, and enjoys framing a problem, shaping & creating solutions, and helping to champion implementation. As a member of the Innovation Office, DTI’s Design/Delivery Technology group also engages in research & development and provides guidance and oversight as a center of excellence for the business. This includes engaging in new product research & testing and the incubation of design automation, digital twin, and BIM-related ideas that arise from around the company.

In the Innovation Office, the Digital Technology & Innovation team is composed of digital experts who conduct research and development to keep our teams—and our client’s projects—ahead of the technological curve. They implement established technologies and find emerging solutions for all business lines (Buildings, Energy & Resources, Environmental Services, Infrastructure, and Water), bridging existing knowledge domains and facilitating the integration of powerful tools and methods. The team’s goals are to digitalize our organization, support Stantec’s digital transformation, and to increase the capacity of our designers, engineers, and scientists, providing higher-quality results and solutions to our clients.

The ideal candidate will have a proven record in the field of computational design technology and will serve the entire company as a member of the Innovation Office’s Digital Technology & Innovation team.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Working on the cutting edge of BIM & computation, solving design and process challenges using BIM applications and computational design modeling plug-ins such as Autodesk Revit/Civil3D and Dynamo, Rhino and Grasshopper, Bentley applications and Generative Components, and other associated digital tools and code languages such as Python.
• Working knowledge of C#, Autodesk add-in development, and Python libraries like Pandas, SciPy, and NumPy would be considered an asset.
• Creating computational solutions to complex architecture, engineering, and environmental science problems via visual programming.
• Ability to communicate thoughts and technical ideas in an accessible and easy-to-understand manner.
• Display excellent interpersonal skills to build quality relationships with the team and across the organization.
• Assist on initiatives and efforts, as part of a collaborative team, with your BIM, CAD, and computational design expertise.
• Stay abreast of the latest developments and advancements, including new and emerging technologies & best practices and new tools & software applications impacting digital design – and how they could impact Stantec.
• Assist with the development of documentation, standards, best practices, and workflows for design/delivery hardware/software in use across the business.
• Present periodic DTI TechTalk (internal company) webinars throughout the year on the topic of design/delivery technology, and assist with presenting externally as needed.
• Other miscellaneous tasks associated with being a member of the Digital Technology & Innovation team and tasks.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• You are passionate about helping architecture, engineering, and science business lines drive their success utilizing design/delivery technology and design automation.
• Eagerness to learn and work as part of a multidisciplinary team across a global practice.
• Apply critical thinking skills to develop innovative solutions.
• Working knowledge of C#, Autodesk add-in development, and Python libraries like Pandas, SciPy, and NumPy would be considered an asset.
• Ability to assist with executing highly complex or specialized projects.
• Attention to detail, never letting important details slip through the cracks or derail a project.
• Be able to tell the story of how design/delivery solutions are positively impacting stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively organize, plan, prioritize, and manage time and competing priorities.
• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to a variety of interactions with coworkers, clients, one’s supervisor, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
• Inquisitive, desire to ask questions and get a deeper understanding of issues.
• Innovative, ability to imagine new solutions to any problem.
• Confident, able to challenge perceptions and biases of individuals diplomatically at every level of the organization in order to enact improvements.
• Ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical people. Passion to give others an advantage of understanding by using accessible language.
• Highly detailed where and when you need to be, able to be less detailed when you need to be.
• Curious, stays abreast of current and upcoming technologies and tools.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Computational Design, or a related field with a focus on BIM, CAD, and computational design technologies.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
• Master’s Degree would be considered an asset.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time.

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.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

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Salary Range(s):

• $35.38 Per Hour - $51.30 Per Hour (CA, CO locations only)
• $32.16 Per Hour - $46.63 Per Hour (WA location only)

The final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.

Benefits Summary: Full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

Primary Location : United States-Massachusetts-Boston

Other Locations : United States-Illinois-Chicago, United States-Utah-Salt Lake City, United States-Texas-Fort Worth, United States-Washington-Seattle, United States-California-San Francisco, United States-California-Los Angeles, United States-Texas-Houston, United States-Tennessee-Nashville, United States-Oregon-Portland, United States-Arizona-Chandler

Organization : BC-2257 Innovation-DTI-US

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Mar 16, 2023, 12:48:22 PM

Req ID: 230000XF

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans