Mission Critical Design Manager – Land Development
Top Benefits
About the role
Strong communities don’t just happen. They’re thoughtfully planned and
future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home.
Your Opportunity
The role of the Mission Critical Design Manager is to work independently and as
a team member on projects of various size and complexity. The selected candidate will be responsible for project delivery, financials, oversight of design in collaboration with a variety of other discipline leads, proposals, and client satisfaction. The projects that a Mission Critical Design Manager may be assigned to may have complex features that will require the application of mature knowledge. This role also leads the analysis of proposed industrial development projects to ensure timely project delivery, resource efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
The Stantec Alberta North Community Development group provides services within
the City of Edmonton and surrounding region, City of Red Deer, as well as central and northern Alberta. This individual will be responsible for managing the relationships with some of our most valued developer clients, providing exceptional customer service.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead and be responsible for the approval of Engineering drawings encompassing site grading and site servicing including water distribution, sanitary sewers, storm water management, shallow utilities coordination, and erosion control design.
- Coordinate with various technical disciplines, including but not limited to, offsite roadway design, offsite water and wastewater infrastructure, and environmental services, on delivery of design drawings and technical requirements.
- Technical review and professional stamping of engineering design drawings.
Stamping capabilities are preferred, but not required if the individual
exhibits exceptional project management experience.
- Preparation of construction specifications.
- Provide internal peer review of designs by other engineers/technologists.
- Interface between projects’ design and construction teams.
- Review construction submittals to ensure adherence with the design drawings.
- Work closely with the field review team to assist in technical design queries.
- Develop design procedures and best practices for Mission Critical projects.
- Guide projects through to completion including preliminary/conceptual design, detailed design, scheduling, tendering, construction, and post construction.
- Liaise with clients, agencies and others to obtain and determine project requirements, permits, and approvals.
- Ensure that client needs are met in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Ensure projects meet applicable specifications and standards as per the governing municipality and adhere to Stantec’s QA/QC program.
- Coordinate work of junior engineering team members and review their deliverables.
- Participate in expanding our client and project portfolio through proposals and business development opportunities.
- Patriciate in other land development projects, such as residential and commercial, to support the overall Community Development team as needed.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are
provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20
hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and 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 (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement
savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because
benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Not the right fit? Search for Mission Critical Design Manager jobs in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
About Stantec
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.
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Mission Critical Design Manager – Land Development
Top Benefits
About the role
Strong communities don’t just happen. They’re thoughtfully planned and
future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home.
Your Opportunity
The role of the Mission Critical Design Manager is to work independently and as
a team member on projects of various size and complexity. The selected candidate will be responsible for project delivery, financials, oversight of design in collaboration with a variety of other discipline leads, proposals, and client satisfaction. The projects that a Mission Critical Design Manager may be assigned to may have complex features that will require the application of mature knowledge. This role also leads the analysis of proposed industrial development projects to ensure timely project delivery, resource efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
The Stantec Alberta North Community Development group provides services within
the City of Edmonton and surrounding region, City of Red Deer, as well as central and northern Alberta. This individual will be responsible for managing the relationships with some of our most valued developer clients, providing exceptional customer service.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead and be responsible for the approval of Engineering drawings encompassing site grading and site servicing including water distribution, sanitary sewers, storm water management, shallow utilities coordination, and erosion control design.
- Coordinate with various technical disciplines, including but not limited to, offsite roadway design, offsite water and wastewater infrastructure, and environmental services, on delivery of design drawings and technical requirements.
- Technical review and professional stamping of engineering design drawings.
Stamping capabilities are preferred, but not required if the individual
exhibits exceptional project management experience.
- Preparation of construction specifications.
- Provide internal peer review of designs by other engineers/technologists.
- Interface between projects’ design and construction teams.
- Review construction submittals to ensure adherence with the design drawings.
- Work closely with the field review team to assist in technical design queries.
- Develop design procedures and best practices for Mission Critical projects.
- Guide projects through to completion including preliminary/conceptual design, detailed design, scheduling, tendering, construction, and post construction.
- Liaise with clients, agencies and others to obtain and determine project requirements, permits, and approvals.
- Ensure that client needs are met in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Ensure projects meet applicable specifications and standards as per the governing municipality and adhere to Stantec’s QA/QC program.
- Coordinate work of junior engineering team members and review their deliverables.
- Participate in expanding our client and project portfolio through proposals and business development opportunities.
- Patriciate in other land development projects, such as residential and commercial, to support the overall Community Development team as needed.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are
provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20
hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and 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 (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement
savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because
benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Not the right fit? Search for Mission Critical Design Manager jobs in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
About Stantec
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.