At Stantec, we approach every water project we undertake—whether at the local, regional, or watershed level— thoughtfully and execute it with excellence across all project phases. We partner with our clients to design fit-for-purpose solutions that address their communities’ unique needs throughout the water infrastructure lifecycle. Our experts lead their fields and guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. We’re a place where you can apply your passion and collaborate with top talent on work that’s critical to our clients, our communities, and the industry at large. We focus on hiring exceptionally talented, enthusiastic, and hard-working individuals that have a keen interest in the natural sciences and a commitment to working in a team-based environment. Grow with us, H20 U

YOUR CAPABILITIES AND CREDENTIALS

• Passion for water resources related projects
• Have existing relationships at the senior level of the target client base.
• Must have strong oral and written communication skills, and be customer focused to understand and appropriately respond to client’s business needs.
• Work under minimal supervision to manage multiple water related projects, including the management of existing client relationships and bringing in new clients.
• Execute projects as Project Manager, Project Technical Lead in a senior technical and/or management capacity.
• Perform on technically complex projects and acts as a technical resource by providing guidance to staff.
• Build and maintain productive professional and personal networking relationships within their technical team.
• Support marketing and business development activities in positioning for potential projects, writing proposals or technical portions of multidisciplinary proposals, participating in client interviews, and supporting negotiations for project contracts.
• Assign, review, and evaluate work for technical accuracy and completeness; and advise on technical problems.
• Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks and safety appropriately, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers.
• Must demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.
• Project and task management experience with strong attention to detail.
• Effective in relationship building with direct reports, peers, internal and external clients.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s or higher (preferred) in Civil Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of eight (8) years and maximum of fifteen (15) years of related work experience in water resource projects (flood modeling, flood control, river restoration and nature-based solutions, dams and levees, green infrastructure, and stormwater management)
  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.
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• Provide project management, coordination, and technical execution of projects.
• Prepare documentation, reports, and presentations.
• Responsible for budgeting, planning, scheduling, conducting and coordinating the technical aspects of assigned projects.
• Provide technical review of project deliverables and products such as H&H models
• Recognize when technical problems develop and initiate guidance for corrective actions.
• Provide supervision, training, technical direction and mentoring to junior and intermediate level staff.
• Contribute to business development activities, including proposals and scoping, pre-qualifications, and relationship building with clients and prospective clients.
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects, as well as perform reviews of work performed by others to ensure accuracy and completeness, standard of care, and compliance with standard practices.
• Support the growth of our local water resources team.
• Develop and maintain positive client relationships, including seeking opportunities for new business and growing key accounts.
• Ensures effective communication and coordination with multidisciplinary teams including technologists, landscape architects, engineers, environmental scientists, contractors, and clients.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.
• Support and ensure implementation of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work and coordinate with HSE professionals during the execution of all phases of project planning and implementation.
• This position is part of a larger team with opportunities to support multiple Stantec offices.
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