About this role
About the role
Stantec are currently involved in some of Sydney’s largest and exciting projects within a variety of industries and sectors including health, defence, commercial, land development, civil infrastructure and transport. We are currently looking for a Project Technical Lead/Team Lead to join our established and growing Civil team.
This rare opportunity will see you driving business growth through strategic marketing, client engagement, and consistent project delivery. Lead by example to build a high-performing team culture centered on development and continuous improvement.
You’ll mentor staff, support strategic goals, and ensure a positive, productive environment. Oversee project delivery with strong technical guidance, risk management, and quality assurance, while balancing your workload and promoting collaboration across offices. Maintain clear communication, effective delegation, and commercial focus to uphold performance and company standards.
Bring your technical leadership to a role with a growth focus.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading project delivery from concept design through to construction, ensuring technical excellence
- Playing a key role in business development and client engagement, including maintaining and expanding existing relationships
- Identifying new opportunities and contributing to strategic planning and growth initiatives
- Overseeing project financials including fee proposals, resourcing, budgeting, and profitability
- Managing and mentoring engineers, modellers and drafters within the team, fostering a high-performance culture
- Peer review of design work and documentation to ensure quality and compliance
- Representing the business in client meetings, presentations, and industry forums
- Contributing to the continual improvement of systems, processes, and design standards
- Ensure adherence to professional standards, ethics and quality procedures and standards and make project Teams are aware of commercial and technical risk and what they should do to minimise it
To be successful for this role you'll need:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or equivalent with a minimum of 10 years’ relevant project technical experience in the consulting or engineering industry
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (Civil Engineering)
- CPEng/NER accreditation
- Registered Design Practitioner or on pathway to achieve, highly desirable
- Strong leadership capabilities and experience managing teams and projects
- Proven ability to develop and maintain long-term client relationships
- A track record of driving business performance through technical and commercial contributions
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a focus on collaboration and influence
- A proactive and strategic mindset with a passion for growing business and people
- Experience in the civil related design and delivery of land development and building projects.
- Experience in CAD based design platforms is preferred
What we offer
Along with a competitive salary we offer many other benefits to ensure your professional development & wellbeing is ongoing.
- Genuine Flexible Working Arrangements.
- Option to purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave.
Learning and Talent Development Programs - Including Global programmes, online learning and on-the-job learning
- Professional Memberships.
- Salary Continuance Insurance (SCI).
- Mental Health, Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Programs.
Service Recognition Awards.
About Stantec
The Stantec community unites over 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across six continents. We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring buildings, energy, resources, water, environmental, transport and infrastructure projects to life.
Our work from initial project concept and planning through design, construction, and commissioning begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships.
How to apply
If this position is of interest, please apply via the link below.
Please note that no agency applications will be accepted at this time.
Other facts
About Stantec
Stantec provides professional design and consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, and project management. At Stantec, we offer integrated service delivery. We are one of the few industry leaders that can offer professional services throughout the entire infrastructure and facility life cycle: plan, design, build, monitor, assess, restore, and decommission. Continually striving to balance economic, environmental, and social responsibilities, we are recognized as a world-class leader and innovator in the delivery of sustainable solutions. Stantec supports the delivery of a continuous learning program focused on the principles of sustainable design, for the benefit of personnel, clients, and our community, following through on our goal to make our world a better place. A commitment to continuous learning and the understanding of sustainable design practices is key to Stantec's promise of environmental, social and economic sustainability. Stantec is registered with, and carries out projects funded by all the major International Funding Institutions. Projects are also carried out for private sector clients including utility and large multi-national companies. In 1954, Dr. Don Stanley, an environmental engineer, founded Stanley Associates Engineering Ltd. in Western Canada. Sixty years later, Stantec Consulting Ltd. has grown to encompass over 200 offices in North America and worldwide. The Stantec team of over 15,000 employees has completed more than 60,000 projects for over 6,000 clients in over 100 countries around the world. Our staff have successfully completed projects on six continents from Australia to Zambia for public and private sector clients. Stantec began working internationally in 1967 on a sewerage system in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and has continued to do so for last 45 years. Stantec Consulting International Ltd. (SCIL) provides the specialized professional consulting services of Stantec to international funding agencies and clients in the government, institutional, industrial and commercial sectors. Corporate headquarters are located in the Stantec Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Additional international offices are located in Barbados; Puerto Rico; Qatar; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates; the United Kingdom; and India. Project offices are located around the world specific to on-going projects.
What you'll do
- The role involves leading project delivery from concept design through to construction while ensuring technical excellence. Additionally, it includes business development, client engagement, and mentoring team members to foster a high-performance culture.
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