Urban Mobility Team - Group Leader

Strong communities don’t just happen. They’re thoughtfully planned and future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home.

If you’re passionate about empowering communities, join us to discover a career with endless opportunities to make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable. 

As an Urban Mobility Team - Group Leader, you will have the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team on multiple, high-profile projects for a range of public and private sector clients. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a collaborative team of engineers, planners, and landscape architects to address the most pressing issues facing our communities and be part of a team that develops creative planning and engineering solutions to address changing land-use and infrastructure demands. You’ll be encouraged to be a creative leader, dedicated to meshing the emerging trends in urban mobility with the best practices of transportation planning. Your fundamental knowledge, engineering, planning and communication skills will be utilized to lead multi-disciplinary project teams and grow a thriving transportation planning practice within the North Central region. Potential projects include everything from complex urban mobility studies to more routine corridor studies and system-wide transportation planning efforts. Our clients generally include Local, State, and Federal government agencies.

This is a great opportunity for a motivated, energetic individual who wants to challenge their abilities in a dynamic work environment to grow and lead a multi-disciplinary transportation planning team.

Your Key Responsibilities Business Development

• Lead business development efforts, including market research.

• Develop, maintain and strengthen client relationships while playing a key role in client management and satisfaction, developing leads, and securing contracts to support utilization goals for the team and your group.

• Work with BC Leadership to identify priorities and strategic opportunities in geographic markets.

• Actively contribute to thought leadership, win strategies, key pursuits and successful project execution.

• Champion project pursuits through initiating and developing client relationships, shaping teams to innovatively meet project needs, writing compelling proposals, and developing fees.

• Contribute to management of the Urban Mobility team’s Marketing and Business Development Spend focusing on pursuing projects and clients with a higher percentage of win rates.

• Contribute to Strategic Pursuit of Top 20 Project Opportunities

• Work with other teams within and outside of the BC to promote work sharing and other collaborative efforts to help integrate employees into a variety of opportunities within the BC and overall Stantec.

Staff Development

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to staff and promote inter-office collaboration including being directly present in the office at least 3 days of each work week.

• Support the group’s overall talent management lifecycle including career development, employee engagement, succession planning, coaching and mentoring, diversity and inclusion, and leadership development.

• Help to communicate and advance the Team’s vision, business strategy and strategic plan.

• Support the Urban Mobility Team Leader(s) with managing performance and compensation in accordance with Stantec’s compensation philosophy through quarterly and yearly employee performance review (YEPR), rate review, and STIP/bonus allocation.

• Establish employee connectedness within the group by interfacing frequently with employees.

• Encourage participation in ERGs, DPG and other activities to support a healthy office culture.

• Uphold a corporate culture that promotes ethical practices, encourages individual integrity, and focuses on the customer and service delivery.

• Support health and safety performance of group members, including the monitoring of leading and lagging indicators, and meeting leading indicator goals.

Project Development/Technical Operations

• You will prepare and manage a comprehensive and diverse range of urban mobility and transportation projects from preliminary scoping through final design.

• You will provide technical expertise related to corridor projects and plans, roadway and multimodal design integrating pedestrian, bikeway, transit, vehicular elements, and bridge.

• You will provide Plans, schedules, and conduct, and coordinate the technical aspects of projects for the team.

• You will supervise, coordinate and review the work of other professionals who assist in specific assignments.

• You will work closely with civil engineers, traffic engineers, urban planners, and developers on plans for projects.

• You will oversee relationships with clients, agencies and others to be aware of project requirements.

• You will recognize when technical problems are developing and initiates appropriate corrective actions.

• You will review and manage your own work for accuracy and coordinate with others to ensure QA/QC of deliverables.

• You will perform other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.

Your Capabilities and Credentials- Highly effective in assisting and leading teams on complex projects.

• Demonstrates ability to readily identify potential challenges/issues on a project.

• Efficient project management of multiple concurrent projects.

• Highly effective in building and maintaining client relationships.

• Ability to craft compelling proposals, including strategic fee proposals.

Education and Experience- Minimum bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related field.

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in the field of transportation planning or engineering.

You will work in an open-concept office setting. Local travel may be required for attending client or public meetings, scoping new assignments, and visiting project sites.

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.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

Pay Range:

• Locations in MN, OH, VT, & Various CA, NY Areas-$107,100.00 - $160,700.00 Annually

• Locations in CO, HI, IL, MD & Various CA, NJ Areas-$117,800.00 - $176,800.00 Annually

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 | IL | Chicago
Organization: BC-1938 CommDev-US North Central
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 07/05/2026 04:05:22
Req ID: 1005682

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.