Water/Wastewater Sr. Project Manager

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 talented Water/Wastewater Sr. Project Manager who wants to be part of a purpose-driven organization that's focused on helping our clients, colleagues and communities thrive. You will primarily be working on water-related projects through collaboration with a wide range of technical disciplines. 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.

Our Water and Wastewater experience includes over 900 treatment plants, thousand miles of pipelines, from some of the largest and most complex in the world to those supporting small, remote communities. With expertise in water treatment, advanced treatment, automation/information management, nutrient recovery, odor control, operations and management evaluation, process review and optimization and reclamation and reuse, trenchless operation and pipeline installation; we're always looking at what's next in the industry and bring innovative approaches to even the most complex projects. Our designs have satisfied discharge limits that push the boundaries of existing solutions, and our experts continue to conduct research in the application of developing technologies, such as treatment for removal of emerging contaminants.

Does working with clients on great projects, with a talented team of professionals, 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

• You Manage a team of design professionals and technicians

• You mentor and supervise staff and develop high-performing project teams

• You perform business development/application tasks and collaborate with staff to increase project wins and develop long-lasting client relationships. Routine tasks include: - Participate in business line teams to manage and develop proposals

• Client facing business development contact, meetings, walk-downs, and presentations

• Scope of work documents and estimates

• Collaboration with multiple business lines to develop opportunities

• You assist senior engineers/designers with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing, and schedule.

• Engineering reports

• Feasibility studies

• Presentations to clients, regulatory agencies and/or project stakeholders

• Quality reviews

• You assist with the management of the design and construction of projects.

• You develop project management plans for projects; establishes goals and objectives for unique and complex projects.

• You are responsible for successfully establishing projects to achieve budget, schedule, and contractual obligations.

• You conduct and/or coordinate quality assurance and quality control on assigned projects and facilitate independent technical review projects by others.

• You are involved in the permitting process of projects, which may require meetings with clients, contractors, interested stakeholder parties, reviewing agency personnel.

• You are accountable for making decisions on large projects. You coordinate with the regulatory review to seek final approval.

• You manage projects of varying complexity within multidisciplinary teams

• You research and understand issues related to regulatory and other drivers that impact individual projects

• You assist business leaders in project revenue forecasting.

• You oversee proposals including development of the scope and level of effort of comparable size.

• You undertake decisions and recommendations governed by general policy and project management governance.

• You supervise local staff and are responsible for providing mentoring and coaching for future leaders, including the development of succession plans for key positions.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• You inspire project teams to higher levels of achievement.

• You consistently engage employees in discussions on job satisfaction and engagement and provide ongoing recognition and feedback to employees and teams.

• Understanding of local and regional jurisdictional codes, legal and design requirements in relevant jurisdictions.

Education and Experience

• Minimum of bachelor's degree in engineering

• Minimum of 15 years' related experience in project management for water-related projects with minimum of 10 years' experience in NC.

• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in NC.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) is a plus.

• Demonstrated successful experience in leadership, including defining and setting the direction for a team, project, and office; strategy development; change management; and corporate stewardship.

• Travel to other offices as well as to project sites may be required.

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 as 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.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Primary Location: United States | NC | Winston Salem
Organization: 1755 Water-US South-Winston-Salem NC
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: Replacement
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 29/12/2025 08:12:48
Req ID: 1001428

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