Power Delivery Program Lead​/Senior Environmental Consultant

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Stantec is seeking a Senior Environmental Program Lead to play a key, client‑facing role in driving our regional growth strategy. This leader will be instrumental in expanding our Power industry footprint throughout the Gulf Coast Region, partnering closely with client account managers to strengthen relationships, identify new opportunities, and elevate the reach and impact of our services. This is a high‑visibility position for someone eager to shape strategy, drive business development, and help define the future of our Power Delivery practice.

In this role, you will shape and elevate Stantec’s market presence for Power Delivery services, driving strategic positioning and long‑term growth. You will also lead and guide projects and multidisciplinary teams, overseeing the full project life cycle, from early pursuit and proposal development through execution and delivery.

Stantec’s Power team delivers comprehensive support across transmission and distribution, routing and siting, geotechnical engineering, as well as environmental assessment, permitting, and monitoring.

This position has remote working flexibility with candidates preferably residing in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, or Arkansas.

• Engage directly in identifying, pursuing, and winning projects; lead and participate in proposal preparation.

• Develop, maintain, and enhance Stantec’s market position with clients, approval agencies, and industry professionals as an outstanding service provider through coordination with Stantec’s marketing team, regional sector leadership, and local technical staff.

• Engage and develop relationships with key industry partners that can help advance Stantec’s position in the marketplace.

• Participate in conferences and seminars and represent Stantec in business, community, and social situations to advance the Stantec brand and maximize exposure of Stantec’s subject matter experts.

• Create and maintain internal relationships across Stantec’s practices and geographies to promote cross‑selling of services.

• Maintain a clear understanding of current and future market and business conditions, revenue and profit potential, and major clients and competitors within the Gulf Region markets with a focus on Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

• This position will support project management and provide technical support for environmental surveying, reporting, and permitting services with a focus on power sector clients in Texas and Gulf Coast Region.

• Collaborate with and manage a community of staff across various sectors, including but not limited to federal, state, and local clients, power, municipalities, and other industrial clients.

• Identify project‑specific environmental design and regulatory requirements for power projects according to the Client’s risk management profile, industry precedents, existing guidance, regulations, best practices, and lessons learned, and use that information to inform smart permitting strategy.

• Establish project objectives and procedures and lead teams on proposals, planning studies, designs, due diligence and permitting projects.

• Possess good business awareness and acumen and maintain a strong understanding of project management fundamentals: project scope, cost, schedule, and quality.

• Grow Stantec’s professional relationships with stakeholders and decision makers within key client accounts.

• Grow internal and external networks and identify additional high caliber talent across a range of professional disciplines to join the Stantec team.

• Provide mentoring and training for staff.

• Complete work in line with Stantec’s Core Values and in…