Emergency Management Specialist – Project Manager Job Seattle area,Washington USA,Management

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Stantec is seeking an Emergency Management Specialist – Project Manager, Critical Infrastructure to immediately integrate into Stantec’s Emergency Management Practice in the United States. This position provides a client‑facing, supporting work across Northern California. This role will focus on managing and delivering active, multi‑year emergency management and resilience programs for critical infrastructure owners, while also supporting growth with other agencies and regional utilities.

Sitting at the intersection of emergency management, infrastructure operations, and program delivery, this position offers the opportunity to play a visible role on high‑profile programs that truly matter. The successful candidate will serve as both a project manager and technical contributor—supporting active programmatic backlog, delivering high‑quality client work, building trusted relationships, and helping position Stantec for expanded engagement across the emergency management practice.

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Key Responsibilities

Programmatic Emergency Management Delivery. Immediately integrate into the management and delivery of an ongoing, large‑scale programmatic emergency management contract supporting existing and future clients. Support active execution from day one, with increasing responsibility for coordination, client engagement, delivery leadership, and quality control.
Project Management and Delivery Oversight. Manage the delivery of emergency management and resilience projects focused on critical infrastructure, with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, staffing, and performance, while ensuring alignment with Stantec’s quality, safety, and project management standards.
Client Interface and Stakeholder Engagement. Serve as an client‑facing point of contact, supporting day‑to‑day coordination and facilitating meetings, workshops, and exercises with client stakeholders. Build and maintain strong working relationships with infrastructure owners, agencies, utilities, and regional partners.
Technical Contribution and Quality Leadership. Serve as a key technical contributor responsible for developing and reviewing high‑quality, client‑ready deliverables, including, but not limited to, Emergency Action Plans, Emergency Operations Plans, Continuity of Operations Plans, discussion‑and operations‑based exercises, after‑action reports, program and capability assessments, and related emergency management and resilience products.
Infrastructure Integration and Cross‑Practice Collaboration. Collaborate with Stantec’s infrastructure teams to integrate emergency management and resilience services into projects and proposals related to critical infrastructure systems, including, but not limited to, dam and reservoir operations, conveyance systems, and power generation, SCADA, and control systems. Identify opportunities to expand scope through alignment with engineering, operations, and asset management services.
Business Development and Sales. Actively support business development and sales by identifying and qualifying opportunities, strengthening relationships with existing and prospective clients, contributing to client-account and capture planning, and leading or supporting proposals, interviews, and other…