Senior Air Quality and Climate Change Consultant

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.

Solve the problems others avoid.

At Stantec, our Air Quality and Climate Change team is brought in when the path forward is unclear—when regulations conflict, precedent is weak, or the consequences of getting it wrong are high. Our work is less about producing standard deliverables and more about helping clients think clearly, manage risk, and make defensible decisions in complex regulatory environments.

We are seeking a senior level consultant and trusted advisor who is motivated by ambiguity, judgment, and influence—someone who wants to shape outcomes, not just complete scopes of work.

This role is oriented toward problem solving, judgment, and influence, not checklist delivery.

You will work with sophisticated public‑ and private‑sector clients who rely on experienced consultants to interpret uncertainty, weigh tradeoffs, and recommend practical paths forward related to air quality, climate change, permitting, and regulatory risk. You will develop trust to help define the right questions before solutions are selected.

This position is well suited for an experienced seller‑doer professional who:

• Enjoys tackling ill‑defined or high‑risk regulatory challenges
• Is comfortable exercising independent professional judgment
• Wants to influence both project direction and practice growth
• Sees business development as solution building, not sales
• Can balance technical rigor with business, schedule, and stakeholder realities

• Frame and lead resolution of high consequence air quality and climate challenges, where the right answer is not obvious and professional judgment is essential.
• Interpret and apply regulatory language where rules are evolving, overlapping, or unclear, helping clients navigate risk and uncertainty.
• Integrate technical analyses (modeling, HRA, GHG) into clear, defensible recommendations, not just reports.
• Serve as a senior technical voice in client and agency discussions where outcomes depend on credibility, reasoning, and judgment.

• Act as a trusted advisor, helping clients understand implications, options, and tradeoffs rather than simply presenting results.
• Support clients through permitting, compliance, and climate‑related decisions that affect schedules, capital investment, public scrutiny, and long‑term operations.
• Elevate conversations from “what do we have to do?” to “what’s the most defensible and practical way forward?”
• Help clients understand risk, uncertainty, and options, rather than simply presenting results.

• Identify and pursue opportunities where Stantec’s insight and experience create real value.
• Develop approaches and proposals that are tailored, thoughtful, and strategy‑driven, not template based.
• Collaborate across Stantec practices to bring integrated solutions to complex air quality and climate challenges.

• Identify and pursue opportunities where Stantec can help clients solve meaningful air quality and climate problems.
• Develop technical approaches and proposals that are thoughtful, tailored, and insight driven, not formulaic.
• Collaborate with other Stantec practices to deliver integrated, multidisciplinary solutions.

• Guide and mentor staff by teaching how to reason through complex problems, prioritize risks, and make defensible decisions.
• Provide technical oversight focused on quality, clarity, and reasoning, not just completion.
• Foster a culture that values critical thinking, accountability, and professional growth.

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