Intermediate Environmental Planner

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties worldwide and are devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.

Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment

Stantec has opportunities for intermediate-level practitioners to help lead our environmental assessment and permitting projects. Working with our biological, physical sciences, human environment, and engineering teams, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading and contributing to environmental assessments and permitting activities for a variety of projects. These projects will span the power, mining, oil and gas, ports and marine, transportation and municipal infrastructure, utilities, and industrial sectors.

This position is focused on providing technical support for environmental planning studies, management plans, and regulatory permit applications. The successful candidate will also have an opportunity for client-facing roles, as well as leading and managing projects and/or tasks.

This role can be in Burnaby, Kelowna, Victoria, Sidney, Prince George, Kamloops or Terrace, British Columbia.

• Manage and deliver small- and large-scale multidisciplinary projects from initiation through completion.
• Lead the preparation, coordination, and review of technical and regulatory deliverables, including environmental constraints analyses, effects assessments, permit applications, environmental management plans, permit compliance documentation, and technical reports.
• Provide clients and project teams with strategic regulatory, environmental, and permitting advice to support informed project planning and decision-making.
• Apply knowledge of British Columbia regulatory frameworks, agencies, Acts, regulations, and environmental assessment processes to support project delivery.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, and deliverables while maintaining a strong focus on client service and project objectives.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships and contribute to business development activities, including proposal development, pursuit strategy, scope definition, budgeting, networking, and conference participation.
• Support and participate in engagement activities with regulators, Indigenous Nations, communities, and stakeholders throughout project planning, environmental assessment, and permitting processes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across a variety of sectors, including power, mining, oil and gas, ports and marine, transportation and municipal infrastructure, utilities, and industrial.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to junior staff while collaborating with senior practitioners and subject matter experts.
• Foster collaboration across disciplines and offices, including coordination with Stantec's national Assessment and Permitting team.
• Implement and oversee Stantec's quality assurance and quality control procedures for project deliverables.
• Promote a strong health and safety culture and actively participate in Stantec's Health, Safety, Security and Environment Program.

• Knowledge of and experience with British Columbia and federal regulatory agencies, legislation, regulations, permitting frameworks, and environmental assessment requirements.
• Experience supporting or leading federal permitting and review processes, including those associated with the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) and…