Project Manager, Water Resources

4 weeks ago

Cleveland, United States Stantec Full time

Many of the world's top engineers and scientists come together in our Water business because they view a community's interaction with water a bit differently-as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, we are delivering sustainable solutions to make sure water is where it should be and available when needed. Our experts guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect this precious resource for future generations. By 2025 we're hiring 2,000 people (like you) to join our team. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity
We are looking for a talented Project Manager, Water Resources who wants to be part of a purpose-driven organization that's focused on helping our clients, colleagues and communities thrive. Our people are Stantec's most valuable resource, and in joining our team you will be able to leverage your career experiences and expertise within a culture that values inclusion, celebrates shared success, and applauds ambition.

Stantec's Water Resources is a large and diverse sector of client types, geography settings and service offerings. Our teams, deal with converging impacts of climate change, aging infrastructure, and expanded development. Balancing mitigation, development needs, and community demands is no simple task. With expertise in floodplains and floodways, natural surface water systems, water supply planning and management, wetlands and estuaries, our team is committed to supporting projects with implementation plans, monitoring, and economic analyses. We effectively manage water with aesthetic and environmentally friendly designs that create opportunities for recreation and education, increase market value, and enhance the user experience.

Does working with clients on great projects, with a talented team of professional's appeal to you? Apply now and you can join some of the best technical people in the world and work on projects you can be proud of

Your Key Responsibilities
Stantec's multi-disciplinary office located in Cleveland, Ohio has an opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced water resources engineer with project management and municipal experience. We seek a team player who desires a highly collaborative work environment, has excellent client and communication skills, and a strong background of design and construction engineering experience. This position requires an individual with strong leadership and proven management and business development skills to support growth, lead projects, and mentor junior staff. The successful candidate will be required to manage multiple projects simultaneously and will be responsible for collaborating with the local office and remote project teams, managing scope and deliverables, developing and managing project budgets, and performing internal and external project status reporting. Specific responsibilities of a Project Manager include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Working in a manner to protect the health and safety of Stantec employees, clients, and the public by following company health, safety, and security guidelines and policies.
  • Execute project delivery and direct supervision over professional and technical staff.
  • Execute internal, client, contractor, and public communications.
  • Day-to-day management of multiple water resources and multi-disciplinary engineering projects in developing plan sets, specifications, budgets, and schedules to meet or exceed our clients' expectations. This may include working with project team members from various office locations.
  • Lead, coordinate, and delegate proposal, contract administration, and project management efforts.
  • Collaboration with other company internal groups and disciplines and sub-consultants.
  • Professional engineering design and project oversight including Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

Your Capabilities and Credentials
  • Strong project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing projects from pursuit through closeout, involving internal personnel, subconsultants, contractors, and vendors.
  • Demonstrated successful experience in client service management.
  • Demonstrated successful experience in leadership, including defining and setting the direction for a team, project, and office; strategy development; change management; and corporate stewardship.
  • Demonstrated successful experience in decision making, including making sound defensible business decisions; and identifying, assessing, evaluating, and solving complex problems.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in problem solving and risk management.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Travel to other offices as well as to project sites may be required.
Education and Experience
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree in civil and/or environmental engineering, or equivalent required.
  • Experience: Minimum 8 years' relevant experience in project management, preferably for water resources projects.
  • Licenses/Certifications: Licensed Professional Engineer (PE)


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.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. At Stantec, we live our corporate values every day.

Stantec was ranked the 5th most sustainable company in the world and the 1st in North America by Corporate Knights for our 2020 performance.

In February 2021, Stantec announced a pledge to be carbon neutral for 2022 and achieve operational net-zero by 2030.

Stantec is the only engineering design firm that has been rated a Climate Leader with an A- score by CDP for the last three years.

Stantec has been named by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and America's Best Employers for Women. Additionally, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society selected Stantec as one of the Top 50 workplaces for Indigenous STEM professionals

Join us and redefine your personal best.

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