Water Resources/river Restoration Engineer Jobs in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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Water Resources Engineer - River Restoration
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About the role
Water Resources Engineer or Fluvial Geomorphologist – River Restoration
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.
If you’re passionate about empowering communities, join us to discover a career
with endless opportunities to make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable.
Your Opportunity
Stantec's River Services Team delivers stream restoration, geomorphological
assessment, watershed studies, environmental assessments, and floodplain analysis across Ontario and Canada. Working alongside specialists in ecology, landscape architecture, hydrogeology, and engineering, we help our clients develop resilient, practical, and sustainable solutions for natural watercourse systems.
We are seeking a Water Resources Engineer or Fluvial Geomorphologist to join our
Waterloo, ON team (hybrid work arrangements may be considered). This role is ideal for someone passionate about natural systems, enjoys solving technical challenges, and is motivated to continue developing their expertise and professional skills while working on collaborative, multidisciplinary project teams.
Your Key Responsibilities
As a member of the River Services team, you will contribute to river
restoration, fluvial geomorphology, watershed, and water resources projects from planning through implementation. You will apply your technical skills to support project delivery, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and support trusted relationships with clients and regulators. Key responsibilities include:
- Undertake technical assessments, modelling, analyses, and detailed design for stream restoration, river engineering, floodplain management, and watershed projects for public and private sector clients.
- Lead and participate in field investigations, including geomorphological assessments, environmental monitoring, data collection, and post-construction monitoring.
- Prepare technical reports, design briefs, calculations, specifications, and construction drawings to document analyses and support project implementation.
- Collaborate with clients, regulatory agencies, and multidisciplinary project teams to support successful project outcomes.
- Support the management of project scope, schedule, budgets, and quality to achieve project objectives.
- Take ownership of the quality and accuracy of technical and written work product.
- Support delegation and coordination of workload amongst team members.
- Prepare and contribute to project proposals and budgets.
- Provide construction administration, site observations, and implementation support for River Services projects.
- Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
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.
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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.