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Senior Project Manager

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Hybrid
Chicago, IL, USA
Senior level
Hybrid
Chicago, IL, USA
Senior level
Leads multidisciplinary industrial water projects from pursuit through closeout, managing client relationships, technical scope, schedules, budgets, proposals, quality reviews, and project teams. Supports business development by identifying opportunities, preparing proposals, conducting client meetings, and developing implementation strategies. Mentors staff, coordinates internal teams, subconsultants, and vendors, and ensures projects meet safety, reliability, resource-efficiency, and cost-effectiveness objectives.
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Your Opportunity

We are looking for a talented Senior Project Manager with an Industrial Water background who wants to be part of a purpose-driven organization that’s focused on helping our clients, colleagues and communities thrive. The candidate will support project proposal and application processes throughout our successful Industrial Water business. Our people are Stantec’s most valuable resource, and in joining our team you will be able to leverage your career experiences and expertise within a culture that values inclusion, celebrates shared success, and applauds ambition.

The role of the Senior Project Manager is to productively network with a wide array of engineering, environmental, power and water professionals on both project delivery and related business development initiatives. We believe that truly transformative work is born from a culture that values diversity. It’s our diversity of thought and expression that sets us apart as an employer—it is through our combined creativity, innovation, and expertise that we do our best work for our clients and have a lasting impact on our world. Stantec’s leadership sees our people as our most valuable resource and is committed to the health, wellbeing, and safety of our team. We have adopted a flexible work environment, including remote work as appropriate, so that our team members can deliver their best both in and outside the office.

Stantec offers industry leading benefits, opportunities for growth and advancement, supportive team members, and challenging projects that make a difference in our communities, our industry, and the world.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Project Manager your daily responsibilities will include client management, engineering disciplines technical scope of work management, financial and schedule tracking as well as development of related interim plans to address challenges. Projects assigned may be broad, varied, and diverse in scope. You will analyze proposed projects to ensure safety, reliability, resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Business development/application activities ranges from intentional listening to client needs and identifying related solution opportunities to high level business strategies and implementation planning. All Stantec industrial water project managers perform as seller-doers, routinely developing detailed proposals for a wide variety of project settings. Additional key responsibilities:

  • Manage a project team of design professionals and technicians.
  • Management of projects of varying complexity within multidisciplinary teams.
  • Performs business development/application tasks and collaborates with staff to increase project wins and develop long lasting client relationships. 

    Routine tasks include:

    • client facing for business development contact, meetings, walk-downs, and presentations.
    • coordinate business line teams to manage and develop proposals
    • scope of work documents and estimates
    • division of responsibility (DOR) matrices
    • collaboration with multiple business lines to develop opportunities.
    • quality reviews.
    • Mentor and supervise staff and develop high-performing project teams.
    • Assist with business development pursuits including identifying customers, proposal preparation and participation in interviews.
    • Interact with clients and management regarding status of project scope, schedule, and budget.
    • Apply and share experience/knowledge of design expertise.
Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

  • Ability to manage multidiscipline engineering teams
  • Ensure that all company policies and procedures are known, understood, and adhered to by all supervised staff.
  • Experienced in organizing, planning, and executing projects from pursuit through closeout, involving internal personnel, subconsultants, and vendors.
  • Ability to make sound defensible business decisions, and identify, assess, evaluate, and solve complex problems.
  • Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, along with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
  • Ability to participate and collaborate in project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought.
  • Possesses excellent time-management skills, thorough understanding of task assignment and schedule, budgeting and efficient use of time and available resources.

Education and Experience

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, or Environmental Engineering from an accredited institution. Master’s degree preferred.
  • Experience: Minimum of 15 years of experience.
  • License: Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) or ability to achieve within 1 year of hire is preferred.

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About Us

Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.

Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.

About the Team
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) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, 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 family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

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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