Project Manager, Water Distribution

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

We are looking for a Water Distribution Engineer to support a variety of municipal drinking water distribution projects in Minnesota and the upper Midwest. You will be client facing and will lead and support projects related to drinking water distribution systems including planning and design of drinking water supply, distribution, and storage infrastructure. This includes wells/wellhouses, pipelines, booster pumps, meter stations, elevated water towers, and ground storage tanks. You will have the opportunity to engage in work that that spans local, regional, and national geographies. Being part of the Water team, you will work with Stantec’s industry leading Water professionals which includes over 4,000 Water staff in North America.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Project Management and Delivery
• Identify appropriate resources to achieve project objectives.
• Project management tasks such as managing contract terms, tracking and managing costs and schedule, and implementing measures necessary to stay on schedule and within budget.
• Technical delivery of work including writing memos/reports and preparing other deliverables such as plans/specifications and other engineering documents.
• Support and lead construction administration efforts including site visits, submittal reviews, and other routine construction administration services.
• Lead multi-discipline project teams to successfully execute projects.
• Business Development
• Understand client needs, communicate project status, lead client presentations.
• Lead efforts for proposal preparation and business development.
• Opportunities to attend conferences and lead technical presentations.
• Administrative
• Serve as a mentor and provide guidance to a team of professionals.
• Assist with identification/recruitment of other top talent to continue to grow the Stantec team.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Proven project management and technical skills applicable to drinking water infrastructure projects.
• Experienced in organizing, planning, and executing multi-discipline design projects from pursuit through closeout.
• Ability to make sound defensible business decisions, and identify, assess, evaluate, and solve complex problems.
• Experience with a variety of process system designs related to drinking water infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.

Education and Experience

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, engineering, or construction management related technical discipline.
• Minimum 12 years’ relevant professional experience, with at least 5 years of project management experience.
• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Minnesota is required, or ability to obtain PE license within 6 months. 

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.