At Stantec, we approach every water and natural resource 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.
Your Opportunity
An opportunity currently exists for a Senior Civil Engineer in our Calgary Water Group. The right candidate will have management and technical skills suited to lead and participate in the delivery of water conveyance projects for municipal, industrial and private sector clients. Projects may include greenfield infrastructure, expansion/upgrades to existing systems, trenchless installations and rehabilitation. It is expected that the Senior Civil Engineer will have significant knowledge and experience working on similar projects, leading teams and client facing. As a Senior Civil Engineer your work will include undertaking engineering studies, analysis, engineering design and document preparation, construction contract administration, field work and/or field inspections as required, project and/or task management, senior reviews, leading technical teams. You may act as a project and/or task manager, leading technical teams, coordinate/delegate tasks for other team members, ensure delivery, resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness and mentor junior/intermediate staff as skills dictate.
Your Key Responsibilities
Manage internal and external client expectations and relationships.
Support marketing and business development activities in positioning for potential projects, writing proposals or technical portions of multidisciplinary proposals.
Conduct quality assurance and quality control reviews of technical deliverables (e.g. drawings, reports, etc.), including the evaluation of the completed work for accuracy and completeness.
Understand and implement industry standards and manuals as well as client and regulatory agency standards and requirements.
Conduct alternative analyses to support business case evaluations for making project decisions.
Participate and lead in the design as skills dictate to ensure efficient project delivery, and take professional responsibility for deliverables (e.g. Engineer-of-Record).
Implement understanding of discipline-specific construction elements as they relate to design to select construction methods and defining work area limits.
Provide mentoring to other developing technical staff and engineers-in-training.
Engage in leadership in Professional organizations that align with your expertise; write technical papers and deliver technical presentations for conferences.
Assist and/or lead the development of proposals.
Participate in the civil design of water related projects and provide technical leadership for:
Municipal and industrial conveyance infrastructure (potable water distribution, sanitary and storm sewer systems, and related components).
Site grading designs.
Site development and servicing plans.
Fulfill the Project Technical Lead role on water projects and acts as a technical resource as appropriate.
Work collaboratively with the project team members, and undertake engineering studies, engineering design and document preparation.
Managing projects and/or Tasks, administering contracts and controlling schedule and budgets.
Lead the delivery of assigned tasks including coordination with project design teams and various discipline professionals.
Lead contract document preparation, including detailed design drawings, construction cost estimates, design reports and specifications.
Lead construction administration activities, and or field work/field inspections as required.
Provide mentoring to developing technical staff.
Developing and maintaining client relationships.
