Senior Project Manager

®; Markham; On-site; CAD 117,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision plans

Wellness program

RRSP / 401k style retirement savings (

Employee stock purchase program

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Stantec’s Buildings team is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead multi-disciplinary project teams across healthcare, education, and civic facilities in Canada. You will oversee all phases from design through construction, ensuring client satisfaction and financial performance.

Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering and at least 10 years of independent project management experience, with strong leadership and negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience independently managing large-scale projects.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary project teams across medium to large-scale, complex projects.
• Oversee all phases of project delivery, ensuring alignment with client expectations, budget, and schedule.
• Maintain daily communication with clients and internal teams to ensure transparency and progress.
• Develop, monitor, and adjust project schedules and budgets throughout the lifecycle.
• Guide design development to meet client program, budget, and design intent.
• Negotiate and develop project agreements.
• Drive financial performance through effective budget and schedule management.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, contractors, and clients to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation including contracts, schedules, budgets, and reports.
• Identify and mitigate risks proactively to ensure project success.
• Mentor Assistant Project Managers and Coordinators.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

10+ years experience

PMP/PMI certification preferred

Job description

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Your Role:

Stantec's Buildings group provides integrated engineering solutions to institutional and commercial clients with a focus on healthcare, mission-critical facilities, transit, aviation, higher education and civic facilities that require reliable and cost-effective infrastructure for both new and retrofit solutions. The combined skills of our engineers, technicians and support personnel with their diverse backgrounds in design and construction provide clients with a team recognized as leaders in the field.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead multi-disciplinary project teams across medium to large-scale, complex projects.
• Oversee all phases of project delivery, ensuring alignment with client expectations, budget, and schedule.
• Maintain daily communication with clients and internal teams to ensure transparency and progress.
• Develop, monitor, and adjust project schedules and budgets throughout the lifecycle.
• Guide design development to meet client program, budget, and design intent.
• Negotiate and develop project agreements.
• Drive financial performance through effective budget and schedule management.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, contractors, and clients to deliver innovative, high-quality solutions.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation including contracts, schedules, budgets, and reports.
• Identify and mitigate risks proactively to ensure project success.
• Mentor Assistant Project Managers and Coordinators, fostering team motivation and growth.
• Ensure timely completion and documentation of Project Management Framework tasks.
• Lead coordination and client/site meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage change orders, contractor payments, and contractual modifications.
• Oversee permit application processes and support dispute resolution.
• Contribute to business development and proposal efforts.

Your Capabilities and Credentials:

• Proven experience in the Buildings engineering industry, from preliminary design to construction administration.
• Familiarity with regional and municipal jurisdictional requirements.
• Demonstrated success managing multi-disciplinary teams and complex projects.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Collaborative approach to client and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in business development and proposal preparation.
• Experience with Data Centre Projects preferred, including:
• Hyperscale, enterprise, or colocation facilities
• MEP and structural coordination
• Secure and high-performance computing environments

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience independently managing large-scale projects.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may require travel and include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

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.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

Pay Range:

Locations in Lower Mainland -- BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario-$117,400.00 - $167,400.00 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 21 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 | ON | Toronto
Other Locations: Canada | ON | Markham
Organization: 1400 Buildings-CA Ontario GTA-Toronto ON
Employee Status: Regular
Management Level: Individual contributor
Business Justification: Replacement
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time