Location: Toronto, ON
Experience: 0–3 years
Project Stage: Design Development through Construction Administration
Reports To: Associate / Project Architect
Position Summary
We are looking for a junior architectural professional who is motivated to learn about BIM and how complex architectural projects get built, digitally, physically, legally and financially.
The ideal candidate does not need extensive construction-industry experience. They do need good reasoning, attention to detail, and an interest in understanding in depth how drawings, models and specifications are coordinated and carried through construction to produce exceptional design.
Teeple Architects is a design-forward and collaborative practice. We pride ourselves on engaging with design ideas at all levels of seniority. Having strong design opinions, the courage to share them, and the maturity to negotiate them as a creative professional is an asset. The role requires engaging with many design choices, from the creatively foundational to the mundane, in support of the goal of design excellence.
The role includes significant technical mentorship and day-to-day knowledge sharing across the team, alongside substantial engagement with conceptual design, construction-document production, consultant coordination, tender documentation and construction administration.
The successful candidate should want to understand both how the tools work and why architects use them the way they do.
Responsibilities
- Produce architectural plans, sections, elevations, details, schedules and annotations
- Incorporate markups accurately and check related views and schedules for downstream impacts
- Assist with multidisciplinary consultant coordination
- Assist with tender documents, addenda, RFIs and construction-phase revisions
- Develop a strong understanding of architectural specifications and their relationship to drawings
- Develop a grounded, logical understanding of building science detailing concepts and norms
- Help maintain organized BIM, document-control and project-information systems
Required Qualifications
- Master of Architecture (M.Arch)
- Strong interest in architectural technology and construction
- Analytical and systems-oriented thinking
- Strong attention to detail
- Comfortable asking questions and receiving technical feedback
- Willingness to investigate issues and engage deeply in problem solving
- Interest in developing personal professional judgment around how buildings are designed, documented and delivered
Digital / Technical Profile
Strong candidates may have experience or interest in:
- BIM / Autodesk products
- Graphic design software (Affinity, Adobe Creative Suite)
- Emerging digital tools, scripting, coding or automation (Python, Dynamo)
- Building science and construction products
- No Revit knowledge required. Revit curiosity essential.
Architectural Development
This role is specifically intended to build construction-industry judgment alongside digital capability. The successful candidate will be engaged in on-going development in:
- How construction documents function to encode and deliver design information
- How to reference, develop and maintain specifications
- How to perform consultant coordination
- How to ensure conformance with building code and other regulatory structures
- How tender and construction-stage changes are administered
- How project specific constraints affect design decisions
- Personal design expression in a collaborative environment
What Success Looks Like
Over time, the successful candidate should become someone who can:
- Recognize design decisions to be made and make informed choices within a collaborative team
- Translate those decisions into accurate, durable documentation
- Carry routine production and coordination work through to closure
- Recognize similar conditions, and apply judgment and logic to novel problems
- Have confidence in delivering coordinated project work to a high professional standard
- Take pride in the artistry of great design, made possible by the craftsmanship of great documentation
Application Documents Required
When applying, please provide a cover letter, resume, and examples of your work to info@teeplearch.com with the with the Subject Line: Teeple Careers – Junior / Intern Architect – Technical Development Focus
We will only contact those candidates we wish to interview.
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