Substation Project Engineering Team Lead

Location

Vancouver, Canada

Stantec’s Energy team in western Canada is offering a Project Engineering Team Lead role, reporting to the Substation Engineering Manager. The role leads a team of Project Engineers and subcontractors across utilities substation projects throughout Western Canada.

• Ensure client expectations related to project scope are clearly understood, met, and exceeded.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to team members; foster initiative, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Champion a strong safety culture by promoting safe work practices and ensuring compliance with all safety regulations.
• Provide technical leadership as a subject‑matter expert, offering professional engineering advice within and beyond the department.
• Prepare and review technical reports, presentations, standards, specifications, and engineering documentation.
• Lead and coordinate multi‑discipline design teams for medium to large‑scale projects, ensuring integration across structural, mechanical, civil, and electrical domains.
• Resolve highly technical and unusual design or field engineering issues by conducting independent studies and exercising expert judgment.
• Assist project and operations management in meeting safety, cost, quality, and time objectives, including proposing plan changes, reviewing contractor payment requests, and preparing detailed progress reports.
• Contribute to the development of technical standards and ensure all engineering designs support successful, safe operations within the network.
• Provide guidance and technical advice to other engineering professionals.

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, Bluebeam/Adobe Acrobat, and AutoCAD.
• Previous experience working with or at BC Hydro is an asset.
• Willing and able to travel occasionally when required.
• Self‑motivated, team‑oriented, efficient, and a good communicator.
• Strong organizational and time‑management skills.
• Excellent communication abilities with a keen eye for detail; able to work collaboratively.
• Engineering expertise across the total project life cycle, from conceptual design through to testing and commissioning.
• Valid driver’s license.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• 14+ years progressive and comprehensive engineering experience.
• 4+ years management / leadership experience.
• 4+ years of experience leading multi‑discipline design teams on large, complex projects.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and timelines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively work and collaborate with a range of internal and external customers.

• Typical office environment working with computers.
• Hybrid work model: office and home.
• Field work may include exposure to elements and inclement weather.
• Travel:
  No.
• Schedule:
  
  Full time.

Locations in Lower Mainland - BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario: $ – $ Annually

Full‑time and part‑time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) receive health, dental, vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax‑free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance, short‑term/long‑term disability, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees receive a subset of these benefits.

Benefits may vary for union positions as governed by collective bargaining agreements.

Primary

Location:

Canada | BC | Vancouver
Organization: BC-1182 E&R-CA Pacific
Employee Status:
Regular
Business Justification:
New Position