Intermediate Water/Wastewater Engineer
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Your Opportunity
Are you passionate about water and wastewater project delivery? Do you want to work on some of the largest and most fascinating projects in the industry while advancing your career with a top firm?
As a key member of our team, you will leverage your technical skills, project delivery expertise, and leadership abilities to manage a diverse array of multi-disciplinary planning, design, and construction projects for municipal water and wastewater systems. This includes biological and mechanical treatment facilities and related infrastructure. We are looking for a self-directed individual who can lead and supervise complex teams, mentor staff, and demonstrate a strong commitment to the water and wastewater industry.
Based in Burnaby, British Columbia, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of complex water and wastewater treatment projects across North America. Our dynamic work environment will help you grow and strengthen your abilities through diverse projects focused on water and wastewater treatment and process mechanical design.
The ideal candidate will have experience as a consulting engineer designing water/wastewater projects for municipal clients. This role will require a balance of technical leadership, engineering, and design coordination.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Work on all sizes of complex water and wastewater design projects and participate in multi-disciplinary teams through planning, design, and construction for municipal clients.
- Perform engineering design tasks on assigned projects under supervision of the Project Technical Lead or Project Manager, including engineering drawings, engineering reports, presentations, and required applications to regulatory and/or funding agencies.
- Design coordination and/or project management experience would be an asset.
- Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and cost estimating.
- Involved in the permitting process of projects, which may require meetings with clients, contractors, reviewing agency personnel and governing entities.
- Manage and lead junior team members while working on projects, complete tasks and delegate specific project tasks to other team members as appropriate.
- Assist developing and managing project scope, budget, staffing and schedule.
- Prepare contract documents for construction (i.e. engineering drawings and specifications).
- May conduct construction inspection services and construction administration.
- May provide services during construction that can include submittal reviews, responses to requests for information and contract document clarifications.
- Participate in constructability review.
- Conduct quality assurance and quality control on projects.
- Prepare portions of engineering project proposals, change orders, client contact and communication pertaining to specific projects.
- Attend in house and formal training sessions to ensure continuing professional development
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Has well-developed understanding of general concepts of relevant areas of water/wastewater process engineering design.
- Has aptitudes for assisting with project and team coordination.
- Possesses excellent time management skills; thorough understanding of task assignment and schedule, budgeting and efficient use of time and resources.
- Ability to effectively discuss project issues with clients and reviewing agencies.
- Well-developed understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications.
- Strong knowledge of water/wastewater process systems, means and methods, materials, and industry standards.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, as well as relevant discipline software programs.
- Ability to solve complex problems using sound professional judgment, creativity, and innovation.
- Ability to check the work of others for accuracy and completeness and manage time to meet project budget and schedule.
- Ability to participate and collaborate in project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought.
- Ability to administer and inspect construction activities.
- Possesses team leadership skills; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong presentation and interview skills are preferred.
- Technical experience to include one or more of the following:
- Water/Wastewater Treatment Processes
- Water/Wastewater Treatment Plant and/or system master planning
- Pump Station Planning and Design
- Engineering feasibility analyses and design
- Preparation of construction documents for municipal water/wastewater infrastructure
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Chemical or Environmental Engineering from an accredited post-secondary institute.
- Related graduate degree would be an asset.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in water and/or wastewater treatment and process mechanical design
- Experience in the consulting engineering environment and project management experience is an asset.
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.
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- Stantec was ranked the 5th most sustainable company in the world and the 1st in North America by Corporate Knights for our 2020 performance.
- In February 2021, Stantec announced a pledge to be carbon neutral for 2022 and achieve operational net-zero by 2030.
- Stantec is the only engineering design firm that has been rated a Climate Leader with an A- score by CDP for the last three years. Stantec has been named by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers and America’s Best Employers for Women.
- Additionally, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society selected Stantec as one of the Top 50 workplaces for Indigenous STEM professionals
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