Team Lead - Atmospheric Sciences

Stantec; Sydney; On-site; CAD 83,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision plans

Wellness program

RRSP

Stock purchase program

Paid time off

Job summary

Stantec is seeking an Atmospheric Sciences Team Lead to mentor a skilled team and guide complex atmospheric projects across Atlantic Canada. You will lead project delivery, support workload planning, and drive staff development to achieve high-quality outcomes.

Reporting to the Senior Team Lead, you will shape project methodologies, ensure quality, and foster client collaboration while supporting business growth across multiple offices.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership experience, including people management and workload coordination.
• Strong communication and client-facing skills with multidisciplinary teams.
• Understanding of consulting delivery, quality management, and project coordination.
• Solutions-focused with excellent organization and collaboration abilities.
• Commitment to health, safety, inclusion, diversity, and respectful work practices.
• Valid driver’s license and willingness to travel as needed.
• Proficiency in French is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Atmospheric Sciences practitioners with mentorship and development.
• Plan workloads, balance resources, and align with project needs and growth.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and staff engagement.
• Manage performance reviews in line with policy.
• Lead team meetings for communication and priority alignment.
• Promote safety culture and quality procedures within the team.
• Guide project delivery across air quality, acoustics, climate, or lighting.
• Support proposals with budgets, scopes, and methodologies.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Client engagement

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in environmental sciences / geoscience / engineering

Tools

CadnaA

AERMOD

CALPUFF

Job description

Your Opportunity

We have an immediate opening for an Atmospheric Sciences Team Lead within our Environmental Services team. This role will lead mentorship and team growth while supporting the delivery of complex atmospheric projects across Atlantic Canada and beyond. The position can be based in any of our offices across Atlantic Canada (Dartmouth, NS; Fredericton, NB; Moncton, NB; Charlottetown, PEI; St. John’s, NL).

Stantec’s Atmospheric Sciences group supports clients across Atlantic Canada and beyond through a broad range of specialized services, including air quality (source emissions testing, ambient monitoring, and dispersion modelling), acoustics (noise monitoring and modelling), climate (climate risk and resilience, adaptation, greenhouse gas emissions quantification, verification,) lighting (visible light monitoring, modeling) and specialized studies on quantitative risks using computational fluid dynamics. The team also provides technical support for environmental impact assessments, regulatory permitting, compliance assessments, and associated technical reporting.

Reporting to the Senior Team Lead, the Team Lead will be an integral member of the Business Center’s leadership team, providing mentorship and direction to a highly capable and motivated team while supporting business growth and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality work that exceeds our clients’ expectations.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Atmospheric Sciences practitioners, including mentoring, coaching, and supporting junior and intermediate staff as they develop their technical and professional skills

• Support workload planning and resource balancing across the team to align project needs, staff capacity, utilization targets, and opportunities for growth

• Contribute to team growth by supporting recruitment, onboarding, engagement, cross-training, and retention of new and existing staff

• Lead the performance review process for individuals on your team in a supportive, constructive, and consistent manner aligned with Stantec policy

• Chair regular team meetings to support communication, information sharing, collaboration, workload coordination, and alignment on team priorities

• Champion Stantec’s safety culture within the team by promoting safe work practices, accountability, and consistent application of health, safety, and quality procedures

• Lead and manage atmospheric sciences project work, which may include work in the fields of air quality, acoustics, climate change, or lighting (depending on the successful candidate’s experience)

• Guide day-to-day project delivery through effective project management, data management, analysis and interpretation, report preparation, proposal support, client communication, and quality review activities

• Support proposals including identifying project teams to meet client needs, preparing budgets, scopes of work, schedules, and proposed study methodologies following Stantec’s project management framework and industry best practices

Your Specialization

The ideal candidate will have foundational technical experience in two or more of the following areas:

• Supporting environmental impact assessment and permitting projects, including scoping, execution, analysis, and reporting related to the atmospheric environment.

• Emissions quantification and air dispersion modelling, including familiarity with models such as AERMOD and CALPUFF.

• Ambient air quality monitoring methods, equipment, data collection, data review, and reporting.

• Acoustical principles and experience with field measurement, monitoring, and assessment of sound and vibration, including ambient or baseline sound surveys.

• Sound and vibration measurement instruments and modelling software, such as CadnaA.

• Greenhouse gas quantification, verification, mitigation, and reduction planning.

• Source emissions testing methods, field procedures, and associated data review and reporting.

• Climate adaptation and resilience, including climate risk assessment, vulnerability assessment, adaptation planning, and resilience strategy development.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Demonstrated leadership experience, including people management, staff development, performance management, workload coordination, or project leadership

• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to build positive relationships, support team members, and engage effectively with clients, colleagues, and multidisciplinary project teams

• Thorough understanding of the consulting industry, including project delivery, client service, quality management, and coordination in a multidisciplinary environment is an asset

• Demonstrate a practical, solutions-focused approach to problem-solving, supported by strong organization, collaboration, prioritization, and coordination skills

• Possess a strong commitment to health, safety, inclusion, diversity, and respectful work practices.

• Valid driver’s license

• Proficiency in French, both spoken and written, is an asset

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in environmental sciences, geoscience, or engineering

Minimum 8 years of direct experience working with key aspects of the Atmospheric Sciences

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may 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.

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 PEI & NB-$83,400.00 - $125,200.00 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 | NS | Dartmouth

Other Locations

Canada | NS | Sydney

Schedule

Full time

Travel

Yes

Other

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