Your Opportunity

The Technical Writer / Editor is responsible for transforming complex, technical content into clear, accurate, and audience-appropriate documentation. This role ensures consistency, usability, and compliance with established standards while actively supporting authors in producing high-quality deliverables. The incumbent will operate within a quality-driven environment, contributing to continuous improvement in documentation processes and standards.

Your Key Responsibilities

Technical Editing and Writing

• Edit and refine technical documents to ensure clarity, logical flow, and alignment with the intended audience (e.g., internal stakeholders, clients, regulatory bodies).
• Perform multi-level editing including: 
• Proofreading: Grammar, punctuation, spelling, formatting, and typographical accuracy
• Copy editing: Consistency, tone, terminology, and adherence to style guides
• Substantive editing: Structural improvements, content organization, and message clarity
• Rework and rewrite sections of documentation as required to improve readability and coherence without altering technical intent.

Standards and Style Compliance

• Apply and enforce client styles and style guides
• Ensure strict consistency across terminology, formatting, headings, numbering, references, and document structure.
• Identify and resolve inconsistencies in voice, tone, and technical nomenclature across deliverables.

Document Development and Templates

• Design, develop, and maintain standardized templates for internal and external documentation.
• Ensure templates are optimized for usability, accessibility, and efficiency across teams.
• Support document lifecycle management, including version control, revision tracking, and archival practices.

Quality Assurance and Control

• Implement quality assurance checks at each stage of the document lifecycle.
• Perform final reviews to confirm completeness, accuracy, formatting integrity, and compliance with applicable standards.
• Maintain traceability and documentation of revisions, approvals, and final outputs.

Collaboration and Author Support

• Work directly with technical authors (primarily engineers and subject matter experts) to improve content clarity and structure.
• Provide constructive, actionable feedback that enhances writing quality and technical communication skills.
• Facilitate content refinement discussions, ensuring alignment between technical accuracy and audience comprehension.
• Serve as a quality advisor by identifying gaps, ambiguities, or risks in documentation.

Document Management and Control

• Assist with document control processes, including file organization, metadata management, and controlled distribution.
• Ensure proper handling of confidential and sensitive information in accordance with organizational policies.
• Maintain document integrity through systematic tracking of revisions and approvals.

Multi-Channel Content Editing

• Edit and adapt content for multiple formats and outputs, including: 
  • Technical reports
  • Manuals and procedures
  • Training materials
  • Presentations and visual documentation
• Apply visual communication principles to enhance document readability and engagement.

At Stantec, we know the work we do matters. From decarbonizing mines to modernizing electric grids and building the infrastructure that fuels communities, we’re powering the world. Our clients come to us with their biggest, most complex challenges because that’s where we thrive. And we’re looking for problem solvers, high achievers, and visionaries to help us.

Join us for a chance to grow professionally at one of the world’s top design firms while building our clean energy future.

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.