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 Water Team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.
Your Opportunity
Our British Columbia Water Business Center is are seeking a Water Resources/Hydrotechnical Team Lead. This dual-role position offers the opportunity to lead a high-performing team while contributing business development, technical and project management expertise to complex and exciting projects. You will play a key role in shaping project outcomes, mentoring staff, and driving strategic growth in the region.
In this role, you will provide operational leadership, foster team culture, and support staff development. As a practitioner, you will work independently and collaboratively on multidisciplinary projects, serving as a technical lead, project manager, and business developer.
Your Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and manage a team of engineers and technical staff within the Water group.
- Oversee staff performance, including goal setting, feedback, and annual reviews.
- Manage staff resourcing and project workload balancing across multiple concurrent projects.
- Identify staffing needs and participate in recruitment and onboarding processes.
- Assess training and development requirements and support professional growth opportunities.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance team culture.
- Collaborate with other team leads and discipline leads to ensure effective resource planning and operational alignment.
Project Delivery & Technical Excellence
- Oversee projects with varying degree of complexity, performing technical design tasks and providing guidance to team members.
- Serve as Engineer-of-Record on water resources projects.
- Lead project coordination meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
- Conduct quality assurance and quality control reviews on own and peer projects.
Client & Business Development
- Perform client account management and development duties to grow the business.
- Support marketing and business development professionals in positioning for potential projects, assisting/writing proposals, participating in client interviews, and supporting negotiations for project contracts in British Columbia.
- Develop project scopes, budgets, and design approaches for projects of varying size and complexity.
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 a team of engineers and technical staff, overseeing project delivery, and ensuring technical excellence. Additionally, the position includes responsibilities for client account management and business development.
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