Senior Associate, Healthcare Mechanical Engineer - San Francisco, CA

Your Opportunity

This role is ideal for a Healthcare Mechanical Engineer leader who wants to move beyond project execution and actively shape a growing healthcare practice—building trusted client relationships, influencing strategy, mentoring teams, and delivering technically excellent projects that improve patient outcomes.

• Lead business development efforts to win new work aligned with the studio, sector, and firm strategy.
• Serve as a key client contact and trusted advisor, helping healthcare clients navigate technical, regulatory, and operational challenges.
• Partner with Principals and marketing teams on proposals, interviews, and client pursuits, contributing technical insight and market knowledge.
• Represent Stantec through industry events, conferences, presentations, and thought leadership.
• Sustain and grow top‑line revenue in collaboration with Regional and Business Center leadership to support healthcare growth across Northern California and the US West.
• Nurture existing client relationships and proactively pursue opportunities for new business through strong client relationships and market awareness.
• Own the successful delivery of complex healthcare projects—from early planning through construction—balancing quality, schedule, budget, and client satisfaction.
• Lead mechanical design for healthcare facilities, including HVAC, plumbing, and medical gas systems, ensuring compliance with HCAI/OSHPD, NFPA 99, ASHRAE 170, FGI, and California building codes.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders, including healthcare providers, regulatory bodies, and internal teams.
• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and resource allocations to ensure successful execution.
• Work collaboratively with project leaders, architects, design partners, peers, contractors, and other project stakeholders to define project objectives, deliverables, and success metrics.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations, quality standards, and best practices.
• Engage with external partners, including vendors and regulatory agencies, to ensure compliance and integration of project design.
• Establish strong relationships with healthcare providers, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure design alignment with project objectives.
• Conduct site visits and inspections to ensure project requirements are met.
• Prepare detailed design documents, specifications, and reports.
• Apply strong mechanical engineering skills, experience, and knowledge to the design and oversight of the design for building projects.
• Manage and plan the production resources and workflow to produce the design documentation, drawings, and calculations required for mechanical engineering projects.
• Act as QC reviewer on projects.
• Effectively delegate work to production support staff.
• Develop and deliver project‑related client presentations.
• Mentor, lead, and inspire teams.
• Provide guidance on project planning, workload forecasting, and resource management.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project delivery processes and technical standards.
• Advance technical excellence by staying current with evolving healthcare regulations, technologies, and best practices, and help integrate them into Stantec’s standards and processes.
• Proactively pursue additional knowledge in related disciplines through continuous technical leadership learning.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Health Sector Engineering specifications, technical documentation, and standards in collaboration with other technical resources within Stantec.
• Promote innovative, sustainable, and resilient design solutions that enhance patient, staff, and facility outcomes.

• 12+ years of experience delivering mechanical engineering designs within the healthcare sector, with a proven track record of successful project delivery.
• Proven success leading complex healthcare projects and multidisciplinary teams.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to navigate complex organizational structures and build consensus.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex…