Design Integration Lead - Water/Wastewater

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision plans

Wellness program

Employee stock purchase program

Group registered retirement savings

Job summary

Stantec Consulting International Ltd. seeks a Design Integration Lead to support Metro Vancouver's Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Program. You will provide technical leadership, design integration, and project management across planning, design, and construction phases, coordinating with Metro Vancouver, the Design Consultant, and Stantec SMEs.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, a P.Eng. or eligibility with EGBC, and 10+ years of municipal water/wastewater experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Process, Chemical, Environmental Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• P.Eng. designation and EGBC registration or eligibility.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience delivering municipal water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
• Strong understanding of design management, project delivery, and quality management systems.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and leading complex interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and wastewater treatment expertise for major projects.
• Lead and coordinate interface management, risk, cost estimating, and governance activities.
• Lead and coordinate design reviews for submissions, memos, reports, and deliverables.
• Interface between Metro Vancouver, Stantec SMEs, and the Design Consultant for timely issue resolution.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary input and ensure consistent reviews across stakeholders.
• Facilitate collaboration among Metro Vancouver staff, consultants, contractors, and working groups.
• Support budgeting, scheduling, governance processes, and decision management.
• Lead or support workshops, design reviews, and stakeholder engagement sessions.

Skills

Communication

Facilitation

Technical writing

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Mechanical/Process/Environmental Engineering

P.Eng. with EGBC registration or eligibility

Job description

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.

Stantec is seeking a Design Integration Lead to support Metro Vancouver's Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Program. Working as part of the Iona Program Management Team (IPMT), you will provide technical and design integration, and project management support throughout the planning, design, and implementation of a major wastewater treatment infrastructure project. This is a unique opportunity to help deliver one of the largest wastewater treatment plant programs in Canada and play a key role in shaping sustainable infrastructure for future generations.

When you join our team, you'll benefit from:

• Working on some of British Columbia's largest and most complex municipal water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, specialists, project managers, and construction professionals.
• Opportunities to lead project design delivery from planning and conceptual design through detailed design and construction support.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and wastewater treatment expertise in support of major treatment plant projects.
• Lead and coordinate interface management, issues and decisions and participate in and support project management activities including risk management, cost estimating
• Lead and coordinate design review activities for design submissions, technical memoranda, reports, and engineering deliverables.
• Act as a primary interface between Metro Vancouver, Stantec subject matter experts, and the Design Consultant to facilitate timely review and resolution of technical issues.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary technical input and ensure reviews are completed consistently and efficiently.
• Facilitate collaboration across project stakeholders, including Metro Vancouver staff, consultants, contractors, and technical working groups.
• Participate in and support project management activities including budgeting, scheduling, governance processes, and decision management.
• Lead or support workshops, design reviews, technical meetings, and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Process, Chemical, Environmental Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation and registration with EGBC, or eligibility for registration.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience delivering municipal water and wastewater infrastructure projects, including experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams.
• Strong understanding of design management principles, project delivery processes, and quality management systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, manage complex technical interfaces, and facilitate collaborative decision-making among diverse stakeholders.
• Understanding of municipal and regional government governance, procurement, and capital project delivery processes.
• Experience supporting risk management, cost management, scheduling, and overall project governance activities.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, technical writing, and stakeholder management skills.

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.

Pay Range:

Locations in Lower Mainland - BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario-$113,800.00 - $170,800.00 Annually

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) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, 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.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location: Canada | BC | Burnaby
Organization: 1117 Water-CA British Columbia-Burnaby BC
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 04/09/2026 05:09:36
Req ID: 1007599