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Design Manager – Transportation, APD – National - ( 250001GM )

Description

We create the connections that get people and goods moving - whether by car, bus, train, plane, or their own two feet. Working within the context of the communities we serve, we provide planning, engineering, and infrastructure management services that fit the needs of our clients and improve the overall transportation experience. Join our team and help us keep communities connected.

By managing capital programs and projects as if they were our own, our project management business, and technical experts work with clients to strategize, plan, and implement projects that help them achieve their organization’s objectives. Our award-winning team has managed thousands of projects across all sectors—airports, transit and rail, ports and marine, highway and bridge, including complex bridges, interchanges, and managed toll projects.

Join our Major Projects Team of APD project management specialists that are passionate to bring transformational project solutions to life.

Your Opportunity

The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of transportation design build projects across North America for large and mid-size construction. May manage technical employees, work planning, technical design management and oversight, project delivery, quality management, contract administration, change management, and risk management. This position can be based in any Canadian location and will require the ability to travel either regionally or nationally as needed.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to initiatives to help advance our project design, operations, and business development
• Work in a manner to protect the health and safety of Stantec employees, clients, and the public by following company health, safety and security guidelines and policies
• Maintain and enhance our reputation with clients, approval agencies and industry professionals as an outstanding service provider
• May manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Establish project objectives, procedures, and performance standards
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams on major alternative project delivery (APD) projects from positioning to proposals, planning studies, feasibility through final designs, and construction services
• Be the key person and point of contact, performing design, deputy design, or quality manager roles on major APD projects
• Represent Stantec and the project design team as a technical leader on major APD projects
• Identify appropriate resources and skill sets to achieve project objectives. Manage contract tasks, track, and manage costs and schedule, and implement measures necessary to stay on schedule and within budget
• Lead by example with active support of internal policies and practices, including risk management, project management, and quality management
• Grow internal and external networks to enhance Stantec reputation and identify additional talent to join our team
• Develop Client relationships to facilitate project activities
• Establish, maintain, and promote partnerships in project pursuits

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Experience with APD projects across a region or nationally
• Experience with the role of deputy design manager, design manager, and or quality manager on APD projects
• Experience leading the design and construction support of complex transportation projects
• Experience in the preparation of presentations utilizing PowerPoint
• Experience developing, negotiating, and managing project scopes, schedules, and budgets
• Business development and marketing skills experience required
• Ability to lead, motivate, mentor, and develop a team of technical and professional staff
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients and colleagues in a dynamic and energetic environment

Education and Experience

• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressive engineering and project management experience on large transportation projects, including at least three APD projects
• Completion of a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree at an accredited institution
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) licensed or ability to get within 6 months, and the ability to get licensed in states as needed to support the assigned pursuit
• PMP is preferred

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.

Salary Range(s):

• Lower Mainland $149,600 - Lower Mainland $231,800 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in BC (Lower Mainland includes Vancouver & Burnaby)

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 will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, 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.

Primary Location : Canada-Alberta-Edmonton

Other Locations : Canada-Alberta-Calgary, Canada-British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada-Ontario-Ottawa, Canada-Ontario-Toronto

Organization : BC-1622 Transpt-CA Infra MP & DS

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : Yes, 75 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Apr 14, 2025, 6:12:45 AM

Req ID: 250001GM

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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans