Senior Project Manager, Site​/Civil

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 welcoming, resilient, and livable.

Stantec’s multi-disciplinary office in Tampa, Florida has an opportunity for a highly motivated Senior Project Manager – Community Development. Your role as Senior Project Manager is to manage the design and delivery of projects and to maintain relations with current and future clients within our community development business line. Typical projects include private and public sector projects: office, retail, hospitality, commercial, residential, and mixed-use developments as well as local governmental projects.

The ideal candidate will come with a background of supporting or leading the civil/site engineering aspects for a variety of projects, with a foundation of strong engineering/design skills. They will have been exposed to the entire project delivery process, including marketing/business development, client interaction, project management, internal team building and hands-on design/engineering supervision.

Stantec’s Tampa, Florida office seeks to hire a Senior Project Manager – Community Development to manage the design and delivery of projects and maintain client relations within our community development practice. Projects include private and public sector: office, retail, hospitality, commercial, residential, and mixed-use developments as well as local governmental projects.

• Pursuing and winning new clients and projects.
• Organizing and leading project-related meetings and presentations.
• Coordinating with clients, team members, sub-consultants, and preparing detailed scope/fee proposals.
• Performing planning phase activities, including initial project research and investigations, assessment of project feasibility, and provide input to project team on civil engineering related issues.
• Performing and directing all aspects of civil engineering design including layout/geometry, grading, drainage, paving, water, sewer, and erosion control. Projects may include land development (all types/sectors), roadway/intersection design, hydrology/hydraulic stormwater modeling, hydraulic modeling of pipe networks, preparation of construction plans and related design reports.
• Preparing complete submission packages, supporting calculations, cost estimates, project schedules, and other duties; effectively facilitate the agency review/approval process.
• Supervising construction phase support services, including development of bidding and contract documents, field inspections, progress meetings, final certifications, etc.
• Monitoring and control project progress, staffing, budgets, and methods of analysis and objectives and keep client informed of progress, budget, work progress and challenges.
• Sourcing, attracting and developing new staff.
• Planning and executing QA/QC plans for individual projects.

Our office is located in the heart of downtown Tampa. The projects we’ve worked on have helped restore and enhance the City’s heritage, while demonstrating our commitment to the community in which we live and work. Throughout the Tampa Bay region, we’ve worked on iconic designs that are reshaping the City, like Tampa’s Waterfront District, Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, the Florida Aquarium expansion, Tampa Cruise Terminal 3, the University of South Florida’s CAMLS and College of Medicine and Heart Institute, and more.

The list keeps growing! We’ve been named Best Engineering Firm from NAIOP’s Best of the Best Awards twice, and our commitment to the local community was a deciding factor in this selection. From our long-term commitment to Metropolitan Ministries to our partnership with the Tampa Bay Lightning on their Hockey by the Numbers program and annual…