Team Leader - Geotechnical Engineering

INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY

About the role

An exciting internal opportunity for the role of Team Leader, Geotechnical Engineering, has become available within Environment & Geosciences team in Melbourne. Reporting to the Group Leader, Geotechnical, the main purpose of this function is to provide leadership to your team to ensure alignment to company strategy, initiatives, vision, and culture.

As a Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in growing the business by building strong client relationships, identifying market opportunities, and leading or supporting proposals and tenders. Working closely with business and project leaders, you’ll help drive team utilisation, ensure projects are appropriately resourced, and support the ongoing development of technical capability across the team. You’ll foster a collaborative, high-performing culture that reflects Stantec’s values, promotes exceptional client service, and encourages professional growth, while providing leadership, mentoring, and a supportive environment where team members can thrive.

The Team Leader position is a function, in addition to an employee’s substantive technical/ project contribution role.

Day to day tasks would involve:

• Support the Group Leader with monitoring and reporting on the performance of the team.

• Work with partner Team Leaders (TLs) in other regions to drive collaboration and work sharing across the BC.

• Initiate, plan and lead a diverse range of projects from inception to completion.

• Provide geotechnical engineering services using a wide variety of investigation and analysis techniques.

• Preparation and negotiation of bids and proposals.

• Working with your Group Leader, you will:

  • Be responsible for the health and safety performance within their team, including the monitoring of leading and lagging indicators.

  • Be responsible for team utilisation by effective forecasting, networking, business development and delegation and development of backlog. 

  • Be responsible for the team’s talent management lifecycle including but not limited to; recruitment suggestions, career development, employee engagement, succession planning, coaching and mentoring, diversity and inclusion, and leadership development.

  • Foster a success-oriented environment within your team by displaying collaborative behaviours and exerting measured and balanced influence.

  • Promote a happy, supportive, and inclusive culture aligned with the core values to support the strategic intent of the business.

  • Ensure all team members have a clear path towards their relevant Chartered Status and any Professional Registration requirements, where appropriate.

To be successful for this role you'll need:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Geotechnical, Civil Engineering or Geology.

• At minimum 7 years’ professional experience and a current role at Senior Geotechnical Engineer level or higher

• Ability to foster and grow a collaborative spirit between staff working within the region, BC and across the broader Stantec service lines.

• A broad range of skills covering people management, business development and project delivery.

• Highly developed interpersonal skills to develop and maintain positive relationships with the team as well as internal and external clients.

• Highly developed consulting skills to liaise with clients and other stakeholders to achieve mutually successful project outcomes.

• Well-developed problem solving and negotiations skills to resolve queries.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit your CV and a Cover Letter (1 page maximum) addressing the following items:

• Why do you want the role?

• How do you meet the requirements for being successful in this role?

• What do you see as the biggest opportunity (or challenge) in the role?

Applications close on Wednesday, 4 November 2026