Senior Project and Client Acct Manager, Wastewater

Many of the world's top engineers and scientists come together in our Water business because they view a community's interaction with water a bit differently-as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries.

Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, we are delivering sustainable solutions to make sure water is where it should be and available when needed.

Our experts guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect this precious resource for future generations.

By 2025 we're hiring 2,000 people (like you) to join our team. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

We are looking for a talented Senior Project Manager within our water practice in the Chicago market. Our Chicago water team is focused on the planning and engineering design of municipal wastewater infrastructure projects and is looking for an individual who wants to be part of a purpose-driven organization that's helping our clients, colleagues and communities thrive.

You will primarily be working on municipal wastewater-related projects through collaboration with a wide range of technical disciplines.

In addition, the qualified candidate will be responsible to develop and maintain client relationships with existing and new clients and manage complex, multi-disciplinary projects in the water / wastewater market.

Our people are Stantec's most valuable resource, and in joining our team you will be able to leverage your career experiences and expertise within a culture that values inclusion, celebrates shared success, and applauds ambition.

Our Water and Wastewater experience includes over 900 treatment plants, from some of the largest and most complex in the world to those supporting small, remote communities.

With expertise in advanced treatment, automation / information management, nutrient recovery, odor control, operations and management evaluation, process review and optimization and reclamation and reuse;

we're always looking at what's next in the industry and bring innovative approaches to even the most complex projects. Our designs have satisfied discharge limits that push the boundaries of existing solutions, and our experts continue to conduct research in the application of developing technologies, such as treatment for removal of emerging contaminants.

Does working with clients on great projects, with a talented team of professional's appeal to you? Apply now and you can join some of the best technical people in the world and work on projects you can be proud of!

Your Key Responsibilities

• You manage a team of design professionals and technicians
• You mentor and supervise staff and develop high-performing project teams
• You supervise local staff and are responsible for mentoring and coaching future leaders
• You perform business development tasks and collaborate with staff to increase project wins and develop long lasting client relationships.

Routine tasks include :

• Participating in teams to manage and develop proposals
• Serving as the client facing business development contact for meetings, walk-downs, and presentations
• Preparing scope of work documents and estimates
• Collaboration with multiple business lines to develop opportunities
• You assist senior engineers / designers with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing, and schedule.
• You perform complex engineering design tasks on assigned municipal wastewater-related projects through collaboration with a wide range of technical disciplines.

Routine technical tasks include preparing :

• Design basis documents
• Engineering calculations including water, heat, and material balances
• Equipment sizing and selection
• Engineering drawings such as block flow diagrams (BFDs), process flow diagrams (PFDs), and piping and instrumentation diagrams (PIDs)
• Engineering reports
• Feasibility studies
• Presentations for clients, regulatory agencies and / or project stakeholders
• You assist with the management of the design and construction of projects.
• You develop project management plans for projects; and establish goals and objectives for unique and complex projects.
• You are responsible for successfully establishing projects to achieve budget, schedule, and contractual obligations.
• You conduct and / or coordinate quality assurance and quality control on assigned projects and facilitate independent technical review of projects by others.
• You are involved in the project permitting process, which may require meeting with clients, contractors, interested stakeholder parties, and reviewing agency personnel.
• You are accountable for making decisions on large projects. You coordinate with regulatory reviewers to seek final approval.
• You manage projects of varying complexity within multidisciplinary teams.
• You research and understand issues related to regulatory and other drivers that impact individual projects.
• You assist business leaders in project revenue forecasting.
• You undertake decisions and recommendations governed by general policy and project management governance.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Ability to inspire project teams to higher levels of achievement.
• Consistently engage employees in discussions on job satisfaction and engagement and provide ongoing recognition and feedback to employees and teams.
• Ability to perform mass & energy balance and process equipment sizing calculations and coordinate with other engineering disciplines including stress / structural, instrumentation & controls, and electrical.
• Understanding of local and regional jurisdictional codes, legal and design requirements in relevant jurisdictions.
• Experience with responding to Requests for Proposals, Expression of Interests, Statement of Qualifications.
• Strong seller-doer capable of generating work and building and maintaining long-term relationships and delivering long-term value to clients for Stantec.

Education and Experience

• Education : Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Experience : Minimum of 15 years related experience in project management, preferably for municipal wastewater projects.
• Licensure : Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Illinois
• Demonstrated successful experience in leadership, including defining and setting the direction for a team, project, and office;

strategy development; change management; and corporate stewardship.

Travel to other offices as well as to project sites may be required.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us.

At Stantec, we live our corporate values every day.

• Stantec was ranked the 5th most sustainable company in the world and the 1st in North America by Corporate Knights for our 2020 performance.
• In February 2021, Stantec announced a pledge to be carbon neutral for 2022 and achieve operational net-zero by 2030.
• Stantec is the only engineering design firm that has been rated a Climate Leader with an A- score by CDP for the last three years.

Stantec has been named by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and America's Best Employers for Women. Additionally, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society selected Stantec as one of the Top 50 workplaces for Indigenous STEM professionals.