Senior Plumbing Engineer

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Your Opportunity

The Senior Plumbing Engineer is responsible for producing clear, accurate, and comprehensive engineering drawings and documentation for a wide range of building projects. In this role, you will lead the design of plumbing and piping systems—including domestic water, sanitary and storm drainage, medical gases, and specialty systems—while ensuring compliance with codes, standards, and project requirements. You will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, coordinate with consultants and contractors, provide technical guidance to junior staff, and help maintain the high level of quality and consistency expected within our engineering practice.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Create and prepare designs for plumbing and medical gas systems;
• Able to perform water, waste, gas calculations as well as product specifications;
• Coordinate and prepare schematic design, design development, and construction documents;
• Design plumbing systems including water, sanitary, storm, diesel distribution, natural gas distribution, medical gas, and specialty lab gas systems;
• Incorporate sustainable design methods in buildings and prepare green rating system documentation;
• Assist in spatial coordination with architecture and other engineering systems;
• Deliver projects across multiple delivery models, including design/bid/build, design assist, design build;
• Process contractor submittals and RFIs;
• Perform on site condition surveys;
• Provide mentoring and direction to junior members of the project team or engineering discipline;
• Use technology and methodologies to create innovative approaches to building design;
• Consistently strive to improve technical quality of work product by keeping abreast of new technologies, changes in building codes, and advances in the industry;
• Work collaboratively in a cross-discipline environment to produce integrated project documents, and insure integrated design approaches & solutions;
• Assist in the procurement of high-quality work; including marketing / proposal efforts and project interviews;
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams on projects related to Government, Healthcare, Higher Education and Science & Technology;
• Maintain strong client relations as it pertains to project delivery and repeat business;
• Perform and maintain thorough QA/QC on all phases of projects.