Senior Risk Manager, Energy & Resources

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Join our Energy & Resources (E&R) team as a Senior Risk Manager and play a key role in strengthening risk management across a diverse portfolio of projects throughout North America and North American Export markets.

In this strategic role, you will help project teams identify, assess, and manage risks that can have a significant impact on project and business outcomes. You will provide leadership on high-risk projects, guide Project Risk Review (PRR) activities, and partner with project teams and senior leaders to promote sound risk management and informed decision-making from pursuit through project execution.

You will also help shape and advance the E&R risk practice by developing practical risk management tools, delivering training, coaching project teams, and ensuring consistent application of Stantec’s Corporate PRR Practice. At the same time, you will help evolve the BOU Risk Practice to address the unique risks and opportunities of the E&R business.

With visibility across the full E&R project portfolio, you will focus your expertise where it can have the greatest business impact. Reporting to the BOU Commercial & Risk Director (CRD), you will serve as a trusted advisor to project teams and leadership while helping build a strong, proactive culture of risk awareness and accountability.

This role can be based in any Energy & Resources office location in North America. The position requires regular in-office presence in support of our flexible work practice.

• Manage the implementation of Stantec’s PRR practice for E&R including through leading PRR required governance activities and supervision of the E&R Risk Manager.

• Attend and serve as lead Risk Manager on BOURC and ELRC reviews for large, complex, and/or high-risk projects.

• On a quarterly basis complete an audit of select projects that have gone through BOURC review for compliance with go conditions. Use this as an opportunity to initiate in depth discussion risk mitigation with Project Managers (PMs) and Project Independent Reviewers (PIRs).

• Serve as liaison between E&R BOU and the ELRC for the improvement, management, and execution of the PRR Practice.

• Serve as liaison between E&R BOU and the designated Risk Managers in other Business Lines to drive consistent implementation of the PRR practice. Participate on other BOU Risk Committee reviews upon request of Business Leaders, typically when executing BOU does not have significant experience executing E&R-related scopes, such as nuclear or dams‑related projects.

• Ensure that the E&R BOU’s risk management procedures are appropriate and implementable or work with the teams to develop new mitigation procedures should the original procedures be rejected by the client or for other means. Develop custom procedures appropriate for the client, scope of work, and project team with Stantec where standard risk mitigation measures are not appropriate.

• Engage and work closely with the E&R BOU CRD to develop commercial plans that will meet the needs of our clients while benefiting Stantec.

• On a quarterly basis, evaluate the projects that have gone through PRC reviews to determine trends and refine the program to drive the trends down with respect to number of claims and financial…