Top Benefits
About the role
Your Opportunity
Our Transit & Rail Team Lead (Alberta) is one of several discipline specific Team Leads within Stantec’s Transportation Leadership Team in Alberta. This is an exciting opportunity to bring forward new ideas, grow our team and build on our Stantec goals of excellence, innovation, and people.
You will be empowered to grow and lead a team of technical experts and will ultimately be responsible for the performance and success of our Transit & Rail Team.
This opportunity is ideal for a motivated individual who is a self-starter, passionate about working with people and has a thorough understanding of the transit and rail sectors.
This position will report directly to the Business Center Operations Leader for Transportation (Alberta) and will work closely with our North American Transit & Rail Sector Leader.
Your Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Project management of infrastructure projects of varying size and complexity.
- Proactively look for ways to improve design delivery, quality, and efficiency.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key clients.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, standards and thought leadership.
- Promote our strong safety culture, ensuring this is at the forefront of our business and lead by example.
Marketing & Business Development
- Build on Stantec’s current momentum and experience so we continue to be seen as experts in the transit and rail industry.
- Proactively position and successfully lead new project pursuits within Alberta and support strategic pursuits across Western Canada.
- Support additional marketing and business development efforts as needed.
Team Leadership
- Build on award winning project experience to develop an unrivaled team. Look for and pursue growth opportunities in line with our business objectives.
- Lead and supervise a team of engineers, project managers and technical staff to ensure project needs are met in a timely and effective manner.
- Responsible for workforce planning, training and project resourcing for the Alberta Transit & Rail Team.
- Work closely with the Transportation Leadership Team in Alberta and the Transit & Rail Sector to support business planning and management and ensure corporate requirements are met.
- Recruit talent, grow team members, enable professional development, and support succession planning.
- Facilitate goal setting, coaching, and performance reviews with each of your team members.
- Track and drive team performance against established key performance indicators (KPIs).
Qualifications - External
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Proven project management skills delivering a wide range of projects, including large and complex infrastructure projects.
- Exemplary communication and strong people skills are a must.
- Ability to lead, motivate, mentor, and develop a team of technical staff, while supporting individuals’ professional development and career growth.
- Collaborative - works well in a team environment and engages in creative and critical thought.
- Business development and marketing skills are considered an asset.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a recognized post-secondary institute.
- Licensed Professional Engineer with APEGA or ability to be licensed within 6 months of hire.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.
This position is full-time and will primarily work in an office setting with opportunities for a hybrid work environment. Some field work and travel are required.
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.
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. Join us and redefine your personal best.
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.
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.
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.
Top Benefits
About the role
Your Opportunity
Our Transit & Rail Team Lead (Alberta) is one of several discipline specific Team Leads within Stantec’s Transportation Leadership Team in Alberta. This is an exciting opportunity to bring forward new ideas, grow our team and build on our Stantec goals of excellence, innovation, and people.
You will be empowered to grow and lead a team of technical experts and will ultimately be responsible for the performance and success of our Transit & Rail Team.
This opportunity is ideal for a motivated individual who is a self-starter, passionate about working with people and has a thorough understanding of the transit and rail sectors.
This position will report directly to the Business Center Operations Leader for Transportation (Alberta) and will work closely with our North American Transit & Rail Sector Leader.
Your Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Project management of infrastructure projects of varying size and complexity.
- Proactively look for ways to improve design delivery, quality, and efficiency.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key clients.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, standards and thought leadership.
- Promote our strong safety culture, ensuring this is at the forefront of our business and lead by example.
Marketing & Business Development
- Build on Stantec’s current momentum and experience so we continue to be seen as experts in the transit and rail industry.
- Proactively position and successfully lead new project pursuits within Alberta and support strategic pursuits across Western Canada.
- Support additional marketing and business development efforts as needed.
Team Leadership
- Build on award winning project experience to develop an unrivaled team. Look for and pursue growth opportunities in line with our business objectives.
- Lead and supervise a team of engineers, project managers and technical staff to ensure project needs are met in a timely and effective manner.
- Responsible for workforce planning, training and project resourcing for the Alberta Transit & Rail Team.
- Work closely with the Transportation Leadership Team in Alberta and the Transit & Rail Sector to support business planning and management and ensure corporate requirements are met.
- Recruit talent, grow team members, enable professional development, and support succession planning.
- Facilitate goal setting, coaching, and performance reviews with each of your team members.
- Track and drive team performance against established key performance indicators (KPIs).
Qualifications - External
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Proven project management skills delivering a wide range of projects, including large and complex infrastructure projects.
- Exemplary communication and strong people skills are a must.
- Ability to lead, motivate, mentor, and develop a team of technical staff, while supporting individuals’ professional development and career growth.
- Collaborative - works well in a team environment and engages in creative and critical thought.
- Business development and marketing skills are considered an asset.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a recognized post-secondary institute.
- Licensed Professional Engineer with APEGA or ability to be licensed within 6 months of hire.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.
This position is full-time and will primarily work in an office setting with opportunities for a hybrid work environment. Some field work and travel are required.
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.
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. Join us and redefine your personal best.
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.
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.
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.