Senior Water Resources Engineer

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Stantec has an immediate need for a Senior Water Resources Engineer to provide technical leadership for our clients and staff on a variety of water resource projects. This position will be part of Stantec’s Environmental Services team that provides the full range of expertise needed to address a variety of water resource related design and analysis projects, including flood mitigation, stormwater management, Green Infrastructure, and stream restoration design and hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, mapping and flood risk communication.

Stantec is a leader in the floodplain mapping and risk analysis industry with a deep bench of both local and national expertise. Our strong water resources team continues to grow, so it is an exciting time to join us as we continue our success and create more opportunities for our staff’s growth and development. If you have the high-quality water resources expertise that we embrace and want to contribute to the industry in an impactful way, join our team!

• Work under minimal supervision with broad guidelines, to assign, review, and evaluate the performance of new project orders; directing interdisciplinary project teams as needed to ensure project needs are met.
• Strong project leadership to help ensure conformance with Stantec’s Project Management Framework (PMF).
• Develop stormwater management, drainage, and erosion & sediment control designs tasks for civil, transportation, and environmental projects, including closed/open drainage systems, environmental site design, ponds, stream restoration, flood studies, and E&SC controls.
• Prepare complete submission packages, supporting calculations, cost estimates, project schedules, and other duties; effectively facilitate the agency review/approval process.
• Process construction permits through local permitting agencies.
• Oversee and direct flood studies and lead supporting tasks, including hydrologic and hydraulic studies, and floodplain mapping.
• Perform hydrologic and hydraulic surface water modeling with 1D and 2D HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, HEC-SSP, USGS tools, and others in support of flood risk studies and other water resources projects.
• Support Stantec’s Flood Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) projects or similar flood study projects.
• Develop Conditional Letters of Map Revisions (CLOMRs), Letters of Map Revision (LOMRs), and No-Rise Analyses.
• Work on multiple projects and be responsible for projects of average complexity/size.
• May serve as Engineer-of-Record (EOR) on project tasks.
• Lead project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors.
• Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and cost estimating.
• Collaborate with other team members while working on projects; complete tasks and delegate specific project tasks to other team members as appropriate.
• Collaborate with project managers, and senior engineers to develop and manage the project scope, budget, staffing and schedule.
• Ensure strict compliance with contractual requirements.
• Coordinate with Stantec leadership and client contacts routinely to explore future opportunities, budget planning, and staff resourcing needs.
• Develop fee proposals for a variety of sizes and complexities, working with other task managers as needed to address all technical disciplines.
• Perform quality reviews of other engineer’s work.
• Conduct peer and quality reviews on applicable projects.
• Mentor/supervise junior staff and promote career development.
• Other duties or responsibilities as assigned by management.

• Must have a high attention to detail, strength in time management and organizational skills, and good written and oral communication.
• Strong project management credentials, including but not limited to scoping, establishing schedules, project plan development, and routine tracking/reporting throughout project implementation.
• Proven experience successfully executing technical design tasks and driving project delivery.
• Skill in Microsoft Office…