Senior Project Manager​/Technical Lead, Linear Infrastructure

About the Role

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.

We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager / Technical Lead – Conveyance who’s passionate about shaping water infrastructure and making a real impact within the community. In this role, you’ll lead the planning, design, and delivery of storm and sanitary sewer conveyance and watermain distribution projects for clients across the Mid‑Atlantic, working alongside a diverse group of technical experts to deliver meaningful solutions for our clients and communities.

Joining Stantec’s global network of over 600 distribution and conveyance engineers, with a reputation as a go‑to firm for these services, you will be given the opportunity to grow your career by leading iconic projects from first request through construction, shaping our established and talented local team and our North American Distribution and Conveyance Sectors. The role involves identifying, developing, pursuing, and winning projects with new and existing clientele to grow our conveyance trenchless condition assessment and rehabilitation business.

The position requires leadership in the execution and delivery of technically complex conveyance projects and provides opportunities for thought leadership through collaboration with research and innovation teams in the development and deployment of innovative technologies. The successful candidate will be someone with strong leadership and communication skills, market knowledge, business acumen combined with innovative ideas, and a successful history of client relations and account management.

At Stantec, we value a hybrid work environment that combines in‑person collaboration with remote flexibility. As a technical mentor you will be expected to be in the office, on average, three days a week.

• Manage a team of design professionals and technicians
• Mentor and supervise staff and develop high‑performing project teams
• Perform business development/application tasks and collaborate with staff to increase project wins and develop long‑lasting client relationships; routine tasks include participating in business line teams to manage and develop proposals
• Client facing for business development contact, meetings, walk‑downs, and presentations
• Scope of work documents and estimates
• Collaboration with multiple business lines to develop opportunities
• Quality reviews
• Assist senior engineers/designers with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing, and schedule
• Perform complex engineering design tasks on assigned wastewater‑related projects through collaboration with a wide range of technical disciplines; routine technical tasks include
• Design basis documents, engineering calculations including water, heat, and material balances
• Equipment sizing and selection
• Engineering drawings such as block flow diagrams (BFDs), process flow diagrams (PFDs), and piping and instrumentation diagrams (PIDs)
• Engineering reports
• Feasibility studies
• Presentations to clients, regulatory agencies and/or project stakeholders
• Assist with the management of the design and construction of projects
• Develop project management plans for projects; establish goals and objectives for unique and complex projects
• Responsible for successfully establishing projects to achieve budget, schedule, and contractual obligations
• Conduct and/or coordinate quality assurance and quality control on assigned projects and facilitate independent technical review projects by others
• Involved in the permitting process of projects, which may require meeting with clients, contractors, interested stakeholder parties, reviewing agency personnel
• Accountable for making decisions on large projects; coordinate with the regulatory…