Water Wastewater Engineer

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 

Stantec is seeking motivated individuals to serve as a technical lead in training on landmark water and wastewater projects throughout the Southwest United States. Stantec offers industry-leading benefits, opportunities for growth and advancement, supportive team members, and challenging projects that make a difference in our communities, our industry, and the world.

At Stantec, we believe that truly transformative work is born from a culture that values diversity. It’s our diversity of thought and expression that sets us apart as an employer—it is through our combined creativity, innovation, and expertise that we do our best work for our clients and have a lasting impact on our world. Stantec’s leadership sees our people as our most valuable resource and is committed to the health, well-being, and safety of our team. We have adopted a flexible work environment, including remote work as appropriate, so that our team members can deliver their best both in and outside the office.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a project technical lead in training, you will be a key member of exceptional teams that deliver successful projects for our clients in the Water business. You will engage internally throughout the organization with staff at all levels, and externally with clients, members of business and professional organizations, regulatory agencies, subconsultants, and other firms. Specific responsibilities of a project technical lead in training include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide technical leadership for wastewater projects, including the management of existing client relationships and bringing in new clients.
• Supervise the work of other engineers, including setting the priorities for their scope of work, their budgets, and their schedules for completing the work in conjunction with Project Managers.
• Support the technical preparation and coordination of the process design, project detailed design, project specifications with construction documents, including technical documentation from equipment suppliers/vendors (e.g., proposals, contracts, shop drawings, deliverables, scope of supply, test data, etc.) to comply with project requirements.
• Support technically complex projects and act as a technical resource by providing guidance to other team members.
• Liaise with clients, regulatory and/or funding agencies, and others to obtain and determine project requirements and approvals.
• Remain current on regulatory policy and rule changes and may establish working relationships with regulatory officials.
• Support marketing and business development professionals in positioning for potential projects, write technical portions of proposals, participate in client interviews, and support negotiations for project contracts in conjunction with marketing and business development professionals.
• Support Project Managers as project issues arise with clients, contractors, equipment suppliers/vendors, or reviewing agencies.
• Engage in leadership in professional organizations that align with expertise; write technical papers and deliver technical presentations for conferences and symposia events.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Experienced in organizing, planning, and executing the technical delivery of projects from pursuit through closeout, involving internal personnel, subconsultants, and vendors.
• Ability to make sound, defensible business decisions, and identify, assess, evaluate, and solve complex problems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Passion for team building and collaboration.

Education and Experience

• Education: Minimum Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, or Civil/Environmental Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Experience: Minimum 7 years of experience in the water/wastewater industry, with at least 1 year of experience managing and/or coordinating projects.
• Licenses/Certifications: Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) is required.

Typical office environment working with computers and sitting at a desk. Field work may include exposure to the elements, including inclement weather.

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.