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Consultant, Operational Readiness

Stantec7 days ago
Verified
Vancouver, BC
Senior Level
Full-time

Top Benefits

Health, dental, and vision plans
Wellness program
Health care spending account

About the role

Your Opportunity

Stantec’s Client Solutions advisory practice is currently seeking a Consultant to join our industry leading capital planning and operational readiness team of management consultants. This position offers the successful candidate the opportunity to work within a dynamic environment and collaborate closely with our unique integrated team of project delivery and healthcare operations specialists, and to interact with a diversity of individuals in architecture, engineering, interior design, energy, and sustainability across Stantec’s Canadian and USA offices. We are seeking to expand our team who are working on numerous major P3 and traditional delivery capital and operational readiness projects primarily in the healthcare, education, and commercial real estate sectors. This is a full-time position, located in Calgary, Edmonton, or Vancouver, with some travel required. The candidate will work in collaboration with our team in an active, client-facing capacity drawing on their capital planning and redevelopment knowledge and experience to become a trusted advisor to our clients. You will work closely with senior members of our team and engage with clients on a wide variety of major, high-profile projects from the planning stage through execution to occupancy.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Develop planning documents, project schedules, and reports, and presentations for clients using our proven planning processes and tools.
  • Assist with the preparation and conducting of facilitated planning sessions with clients, project teams, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on project objectives and the path forward.
  • Assess project performance by conducting review sessions with clients, project consultants, advisors, and contractors against project plans and prepare performance reports to clients.
  • Assist with the identification of key issues and risks to the project outcome.
  • Revise and update project planning documents in all stages of the project
  • Prepare written reports and participate in verbal presentations to clients.
  • Support and assist with development of proposal responses and promotional materials.
  • Contribute to Client Solutions’ business goals through participation in group planning and brainstorming sessions.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

  • Good understanding of the capital planning process for major redevelopment projects.
  • Good understanding and application of project management processes and principles.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in MS Office suite and the use of PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio for management reporting.
  • Strong familiarity with project scheduling software (MS Project and/or Primavera).
  • Ability to combine technical expertise with business acumen.
  • Effective and expressive communicator, both verbally and written, who is clear and concise.
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
  • Innovative, creative, critical thinker.
  • Self-starter, team player and effective collaborator with others.
  • Efficient time manager adept at managing multiple projects with competing deadlines.
  • Comfortable working in both a group environment and individually, virtually, and in-person.
  • Comfortable being hands-on working with software tools in flat, project team structures.

Education and Experience

  • An undergraduate degree (Architecture, Engineering, or a related field) from an accredited university or college.
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience with project capital planning.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or willingness to obtain.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

About Stantec

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Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.

We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.

Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.

We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.