Design Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec
Your Opportunity
As Design Manager, you will lead a team of professionals in the design and construction of large-scale Civic and Industrial projects including those for Department of National Defence and other aviation related projects in all phases from pre-design, design, construction, and occupancy.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Liaise with clients to maintain existing and build new client relationships
- Prepare detailed project plans, work breakdown structures and schedules
- Manage all stages of projects including schematic design, design development, construction documents, tendering, services during construction, commissioning and project close-out
- Manage multi-disciplinary design teams and sub-consultants for large, complex civic and industrial projects with a variety of project delivery methods
- Understand and manage complex stakeholder requirements with internal and external partners
- Identify and manage project risks
- Manage project documentation
- Be responsible for delivery of projects on time, on budget, and within scope
- Implement Stantec’s quality control and quality assurance program for project designs and deliverables
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Experience managing and motivating integrated, multi-discipline design teams in multiple locations for delivery of small, simple and large, complex civic/industrial projects, including design-bid-build and alternate project delivery such as design-build, integrated project delivery, and P3
- Experience using project management and collaborative tools for effectively delivering projects
- Knowledge of commercial and contractual issues
- Understanding of effective management of scope, schedule and quality of projects
- Highly effective interpersonal communication and negotiation skills and people management ability with clients, staff, and colleagues
- Strong leadership skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and support of mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and a code of ethical behavior
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering with at least ten (10) years’ experience in designing or delivering building projects, preferably including civic/industrial buildings. Registration or ability to register as an Engineer in Canada is required
- Ability to travel out of town for multiple days, and possess a valid driver’s license
- Ability to qualify for Secret Clearance with the Department of National Defence
- Experience managing at least one design project with minimum consulting fees of $1M and five design projects with minimum consulting fees of $250K.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
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. #INDBuild
About Stantec Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. 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 innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Same Posting Description for Internal and External Candidates
Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec
Your Opportunity
As Design Manager, you will lead a team of professionals in the design and construction of large-scale Civic and Industrial projects including those for Department of National Defence and other aviation related projects in all phases from pre-design, design, construction, and occupancy.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Liaise with clients to maintain existing and build new client relationships
- Prepare detailed project plans, work breakdown structures and schedules
- Manage all stages of projects including schematic design, design development, construction documents, tendering, services during construction, commissioning and project close-out
- Manage multi-disciplinary design teams and sub-consultants for large, complex civic and industrial projects with a variety of project delivery methods
- Understand and manage complex stakeholder requirements with internal and external partners
- Identify and manage project risks
- Manage project documentation
- Be responsible for delivery of projects on time, on budget, and within scope
- Implement Stantec’s quality control and quality assurance program for project designs and deliverables
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Experience managing and motivating integrated, multi-discipline design teams in multiple locations for delivery of small, simple and large, complex civic/industrial projects, including design-bid-build and alternate project delivery such as design-build, integrated project delivery, and P3
- Experience using project management and collaborative tools for effectively delivering projects
- Knowledge of commercial and contractual issues
- Understanding of effective management of scope, schedule and quality of projects
- Highly effective interpersonal communication and negotiation skills and people management ability with clients, staff, and colleagues
- Strong leadership skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and support of mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and a code of ethical behavior
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering with at least ten (10) years’ experience in designing or delivering building projects, preferably including civic/industrial buildings. Registration or ability to register as an Engineer in Canada is required
- Ability to travel out of town for multiple days, and possess a valid driver’s license
- Ability to qualify for Secret Clearance with the Department of National Defence
- Experience managing at least one design project with minimum consulting fees of $1M and five design projects with minimum consulting fees of $250K.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
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. #INDBuild
About Stantec Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. 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 innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Pay Range:
- Locations in Lower Mainland - BC - Min Salary $ 111,700.00 - Max Salary $ 167,600.00
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.
Primary Location: Canada | BC | Vancouver
Organization: 1443 Buildings-CA British Columbia-Vancouver BC
Employee Status: Regular
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 15/09/2025 06:09:17
Req ID: 1002319
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.
Design Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec
Your Opportunity
As Design Manager, you will lead a team of professionals in the design and construction of large-scale Civic and Industrial projects including those for Department of National Defence and other aviation related projects in all phases from pre-design, design, construction, and occupancy.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Liaise with clients to maintain existing and build new client relationships
- Prepare detailed project plans, work breakdown structures and schedules
- Manage all stages of projects including schematic design, design development, construction documents, tendering, services during construction, commissioning and project close-out
- Manage multi-disciplinary design teams and sub-consultants for large, complex civic and industrial projects with a variety of project delivery methods
- Understand and manage complex stakeholder requirements with internal and external partners
- Identify and manage project risks
- Manage project documentation
- Be responsible for delivery of projects on time, on budget, and within scope
- Implement Stantec’s quality control and quality assurance program for project designs and deliverables
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Experience managing and motivating integrated, multi-discipline design teams in multiple locations for delivery of small, simple and large, complex civic/industrial projects, including design-bid-build and alternate project delivery such as design-build, integrated project delivery, and P3
- Experience using project management and collaborative tools for effectively delivering projects
- Knowledge of commercial and contractual issues
- Understanding of effective management of scope, schedule and quality of projects
- Highly effective interpersonal communication and negotiation skills and people management ability with clients, staff, and colleagues
- Strong leadership skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and support of mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and a code of ethical behavior
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering with at least ten (10) years’ experience in designing or delivering building projects, preferably including civic/industrial buildings. Registration or ability to register as an Engineer in Canada is required
- Ability to travel out of town for multiple days, and possess a valid driver’s license
- Ability to qualify for Secret Clearance with the Department of National Defence
- Experience managing at least one design project with minimum consulting fees of $1M and five design projects with minimum consulting fees of $250K.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
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. #INDBuild
About Stantec Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. 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 innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Same Posting Description for Internal and External Candidates
Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec
Your Opportunity
As Design Manager, you will lead a team of professionals in the design and construction of large-scale Civic and Industrial projects including those for Department of National Defence and other aviation related projects in all phases from pre-design, design, construction, and occupancy.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Liaise with clients to maintain existing and build new client relationships
- Prepare detailed project plans, work breakdown structures and schedules
- Manage all stages of projects including schematic design, design development, construction documents, tendering, services during construction, commissioning and project close-out
- Manage multi-disciplinary design teams and sub-consultants for large, complex civic and industrial projects with a variety of project delivery methods
- Understand and manage complex stakeholder requirements with internal and external partners
- Identify and manage project risks
- Manage project documentation
- Be responsible for delivery of projects on time, on budget, and within scope
- Implement Stantec’s quality control and quality assurance program for project designs and deliverables
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Experience managing and motivating integrated, multi-discipline design teams in multiple locations for delivery of small, simple and large, complex civic/industrial projects, including design-bid-build and alternate project delivery such as design-build, integrated project delivery, and P3
- Experience using project management and collaborative tools for effectively delivering projects
- Knowledge of commercial and contractual issues
- Understanding of effective management of scope, schedule and quality of projects
- Highly effective interpersonal communication and negotiation skills and people management ability with clients, staff, and colleagues
- Strong leadership skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and support of mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and a code of ethical behavior
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering with at least ten (10) years’ experience in designing or delivering building projects, preferably including civic/industrial buildings. Registration or ability to register as an Engineer in Canada is required
- Ability to travel out of town for multiple days, and possess a valid driver’s license
- Ability to qualify for Secret Clearance with the Department of National Defence
- Experience managing at least one design project with minimum consulting fees of $1M and five design projects with minimum consulting fees of $250K.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
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. #INDBuild
About Stantec Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. 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 innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Pay Range:
- Locations in Lower Mainland - BC - Min Salary $ 111,700.00 - Max Salary $ 167,600.00
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.
Primary Location: Canada | BC | Vancouver
Organization: 1443 Buildings-CA British Columbia-Vancouver BC
Employee Status: Regular
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 15/09/2025 06:09:17
Req ID: 1002319
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.