Project Manager, Municipal Engineer
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Your Opportunity
Stantec’s multi-disciplinary office located in Ann Arbor, Michigan has an opportunity for an experienced Municipal Engineer with project management and municipal experience. With a strong background of design and construction engineering experience, you have strong leadership and proven management and business development skills to support growth, lead projects, and mentor junior staff. As a Municipal Engineer, you will manage multiple projects simultaneously and will collaborate with the local office and remote project teams, managing scope and deliverables, developing and managing project budgets, and performing internal and external project status reporting.
Your Key Responsibilities
- You lead/coordinate design and plan production for public improvement projects, including underground infrastructure, non-motorized pathways, and park improvements.
- You lead, coordinate, and delegate proposal, contract administration, and project management efforts.
- You manage multiple water resources and multi-disciplinary engineering projects in developing plan sets, specifications, budgets, and schedules to meet or exceed our clients’ expectations. This may include working with project team members from various office locations.
- You execute and manage complex civil engineering designs and multidisciplinary projects with direct supervision over professional and technical staff.
- You perform/coordinate technical reviews of public infrastructure and land development on application submittals; this also includes coordinating specialized technical reviews by others (transportation, structural, photometric, etc.).
- You are responsible for the review program of plot plans/building plans for construction permits.
- You will coordinate between developer personnel and township and field staff from concept plan through construction of the public improvements.
- You attend development related applicant and township staff meetings, including occasional (night) Planning Commission meetings.
- You support the growth of the office and region through technical expertise and team mentorship, project management, and/or client management.
- You collaborate and provide support to construction services staff and perform intermittent construction oversight will be required.
- you 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.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Strong project management skills, with experience in client service management.
- Knowledge of civil systems means and methods, materials, and industry standards.
- Understanding of all phases of engineering document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications.
- Travel to other offices as well as to project sites may be required.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in civil and/or environmental engineering, or equivalent required.
- Minimum 8 years’ relevant experience in project management, preferably for municipal engineering projects.
- Demonstrated experience in leadership, including defining and setting the direction for a team, project, and office; strategy development; change management; and corporate stewardship.
- Experience in design functions, such as site planning, roads, drainage, grading, water systems, sanitary sewer systems and other municipal and private sector infrastructure.
- Experience in project management functions; contract administration, bidding regulations, and quality assessments.
- Licensed Professional Engineer (PE)
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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