This Opportunity

Our Toronto studio is searching for a highly motivated Senior Interior Designer to join our Healthcare team. The ideal candidate will have experience with multi-disciplinary design practice along with a broad interest in a variety of other project types. This individual will be creative to the core, one who is driven by success, and embraces being part of a high performance, best-in-class team. They will be a strong team player able to work in fast-paced collaborative environment and interested in working for a diverse, multi-disciplinary, multi-sector, global reaching firm.

The Healthcare Senior Interior Designer will oversee the interior design process and deliverables, establish project direction and work within the project budgets and schedules for large scale projects in Canada. With strong leadership skills, experience with user group meetings and working with senior hospital management and P3 partners, the Healthcare Senior Interior Designer will deliver world-class facilities consistent with requirements that meet technology, integration, efficiency, safety, and cost effectiveness. Working collaboratively within the Architecture Healthcare practice and the Healthcare Interiors Lead, the Senior Interior Designer provides leadership, technical expertise, and mentoring to a team of junior and intermediate designers with responsibility for project delivery in a time and resource-sensitive manner.

As a Healthcare Senior Interior Designer, you will be responsible for:

• With input from the project Principal, oversee the interior design process and deliverable, establish project direction and work within project budgets and schedules.
• Meet with clients to analyze their goals, needs and resources.
• Under minimal supervision, manage multiple projects and a team of intermediate and junior designers; delegate and assign tasks appropriately.
• Understand the requirements of the plans, life safety issues, building codes and other technical aspects; knowledgeable in the areas of design, drawing and details, finishes and building materials, specifications, codes, technical drawing, contract administration and business practices.
• Provide world class conceptual design/leadership, inspiring teams to continually strive for design excellence. Using knowledge of both current and future trends, deliver spaces that exceed client.
• Prepare and administer construction documents consisting of plans, elevations, details and specifications, to illustrate partition layouts; power and communications locations; reflected ceiling and lighting plans.
• Manage requirements for materials, products, finishes, furniture selection, specifications, and layouts.
• Administer contract documents, bids, and negotiations as the client’s consultant; coordinate and collaborate with other design professionals who may be retained to provide consulting services, including but not limited to architects, structural, mechanical and electrical engineers and various specialty consultants.
• Assist with permit tender applications as required.
• Complete construction administration from tender through project close out.
• Work to a project fee and client budget.
• Foster and cultivate good client relationships.
• Mentor and train intermediate and junior designers.

Position Requirements

• A degree or diploma from a CIDA accredited Interior Design program.
• Minimum 8 years of industry experience with Healthcare.
• Experience working on P3 Healthcare projects.
• A membership with ARIDO (or other relevant regulatory body).
• Attained your NCIDQ certification.
• Sound knowledge of AutoCAD, REVIT, Windows (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint) and a host of 3D graphic programs such as 3Ds Max, Sketch-up, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.
• Technically savvy, able to learn and master new programs and apps.
• Armed with excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Comfortable working within the setting of a fully integrated global interiors, architecture, planning and landscape architecture firm.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Self-directed, able to work independently and know when to reach out for guidance and support.
• Ready to receive and welcome coaching from supervisors and colleagues, assimilate feedback and learn quickly from it.
• Passionate in design, positive outlook, collaborative, and patient individual.

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for the job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

BENEFITS OF WORKING AT B+H

People represent our most valued asset. By investing in our employees, we are also investing in the ongoing success of our company. We pride ourselves on offering a comprehensive, People First benefits package to promote health and wellness, enhance work/life balance and ensure long-term stability for our employees and their families.

• Hybrid work arrangements with a combination of working in our Toronto Studio and remotely
• Competitive pay
• An excellent employer paid Extended Health & Dental Benefit, Life, and AD&D
• Referral bonus program
• Company’s perks/discounts (i.e Goodlife, perkopolis etc.)
• You will be exposed to an open, continuous-learning environment where professional development and career progression is encouraged
• You will work within a dynamic, driven, high-achieving, close-knit, and fun-loving team
• And lots of fun studio events

OUR FIRM

B+H is a global, award-winning, full-service design firm recognized for excellence in sustainable design, technical expertise and the delivery of complex, large-scale projects. A legacy of 70 years of design innovation and problem solving has endowed us with a depth of knowledge, skill and agility that benefits each client we serve, wherever they are in the world.

We are committed to delivering high-performance and sustainable communities, buildings and environments that exceed client expectations, contribute to human well-being, and enhance the health of our planet. We believe in the power of design to elevate people’s lives and we are committed to doing everything necessary to deliver environments that outperform our clients’ expectations, now and in the future.

Collaborating across ten studios in Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore & Ho Chi Minh City, B+H’s architects, interior designers, planners, landscape architects, organizational design specialists, experience designers, researchers, analysts, and brand strategists combine strategic thinking, bold design, and advanced technology with the creative human energy of an interdisciplinary, multi-generational team. B+H delivers strategic consulting and high-value design solutions that shape spaces, communities, and economies.

At B+H we push the limits of creativity by acknowledging the humanity in the creative process. We believe in letting things get a little messy while we let our minds explore the bounds of what’s possible. Once we’ve found something truly new, then we reassemble it into the clean, well-executed project our clients expect from us. Join us if you’re willing to try new things, to go bold, and to let the best idea win. If you’re willing to stretch yourself and you want to create something that’s never existed before, we want you.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at B+H. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds. B+H is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Individual accommodation will be provided for applicants with disabilities who meet required qualifications. Please advise us at any time during the recruitment process.