Senior Project Manager, Water Resources

Senior Project Manager

Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they're facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we're helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world's most precious resource. Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

As a Senior Project Manager, you will work on some of the most exciting and complex projects around while coordinating with senior leaders across Stantec. In this role, you will be required to manage multiple projects simultaneously and will be responsible for collaborating with the local office and dispersed project teams, communicating directly with clients, managing scope and deliverables, developing and managing project budgets, and performing internal and external project status reporting. Our people are Stantec's most valuable resource, and in joining our team you will be able to leverage your experiences and expertise to complete water resources projects locally and across North America.

Your Key Responsibilities

You manage multiple water resources and multi-disciplinary engineering projects to produce engineering scope, budgets, and schedules to meet our clients' expectations in close collaboration with Project Technical Leads. You utilize Stantec's internal Project Management Framework to manage project risk, forecast key project financial metrics, manage project schedules, identify staff resource needs, and collaborate with project controls specialists. You lead and develop a team of engaged and collaborative engineers, setting expectations for team performance, including supervising local staff. You will be a mentor and a leader to more junior professional and technical staff, providing technical guidance to less experienced staff working on a common project. You work closely with Local and Regional leaders, Business Developers, and Project Teams to leverage Stantec's internal resources and expertise. You are a seller-doer capable of generating work and creating long-term relationships and delivering long-term value to clients for Stantec. You coordinate with national and regional sector leaders to connect subject matter experts with Client challenges, identify project resource needs, and support strategic project pursuits. You identify opportunities and lead pursuits in the North Central region; engaging directly in relationship development internally and with clients, positioning, and teaming for strategic pursuits.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Strong project management skills working on civil engineering projects, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing projects from pursuit through closeout, involving internal personnel and subconsultants. Experience in leadership including setting expectations for project success, and strategy development. Demonstrated successful experience in decision making, including making sound defensible business decisions; and identifying, assessing, evaluating, and solving complex problems. Experience managing project budgets including project financial forecasting and earned value management. Travel to other offices as well as to project sites may be required.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in civil and/or environmental engineering, or equivalent required. Minimum 8 years' progressive experience in project management, preferably for water resources projects. Licensed Professional Engineer (PE).

Pay Transparency:

In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.

Benefits Summary:

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) 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. Regular full-time and part-time 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/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law. The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location: United States | OH | Cincinnati

Organization: BC-1734 Water-US North Central

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: No

Schedule: Full time

Job Posting: 16/06/2025 05:06:08

Req ID: REQ250001ZS