About this role
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.
We are hiring a Junior Construction Manager to support our Portland‑based water team. This is an opportunity to grow your construction career while contributing to meaningful projects that serve future generations. Join us and discover what you can build here.
Your Opportunity
As a Junior Construction Manager, you will support senior staff and act as an on‑site presence for Stantec during construction activities. You will work closely with project managers, designers, contractors, and client operations staff to help ensure safe, high‑quality construction at water and wastewater treatment facilities, pipelines, roadway improvements, and other civil infrastructure.
This role is ideal for candidates who are eager to learn, enjoy working in the field, and want hands‑on experience with complex infrastructure construction.
What You’ll Do
- Support constructability reviews and bid evaluations
- Assist with coordinating project tasks across permitting, public outreach, real estate, controls, and other support functions
- Help manage contract correspondence and documentation
- Track construction project progress, schedules, and budgets under the guidance of senior team members
- Review and process contractor payment applications
- Interpret technical drawings and specifications with support from senior engineers, discipline leaders and construction managers
- Assist with change management documentation
- Promote quality and safety practices across all activities
- Coordinate with inspection staff and outside testing teams
- Participate in construction meetings, site walks, and project closeout
- Assist with submittals, RFIs, design clarifications, and field documentation
- Support field surveys and monitor daily construction activity
- Communicate with governing agencies as needed
- Participate in equipment testing, training, startup, and warranty activities
- Help respond to delays, field issues, and disruptions in collaboration with the project team
- Contribute to a positive, collaborative project environment
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
- As a Junior Construction Manager, you will support senior staff and act as an on-site presence during construction activities. You will work closely with project managers, designers, contractors, and client operations staff to ensure safe, high-quality construction.
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