Urban Water Resources Engineer

Stantec; Hamilton; Hybrid; CAD 91,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

Wellness program

RRSP

Employee stock purchase

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a Professional Engineer to focus on hydraulic and hydrologic modelling for urban water systems. You will calibrate, troubleshoot, and apply models to support planning and operations across Canada and North America.

You will collaborate with experienced modellers and project leaders, mentor junior staff, and contribute to technical reports, proposals, and client discussions. A hybrid work arrangement is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, water resources, environmental, or related engineering.
• Registered as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in a Canadian province, or eligible for registration.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant consulting, municipal, or utility experience, focused on hydraulic/hydrologic modelling.
• Progressively responsible technical work including model development, analysis, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead hydraulic and hydrologic modelling assignments for water systems.
• Develop, calibrate, validate, troubleshoot, and document models.
• Assess capacity, level of service, flood risk, and operational issues.
• Develop scenarios for master planning and capital projects.
• Interpret results and provide practical recommendations.
• Prepare technical reports, briefs, and model documentation.
• Plan field investigations for model development and calibration.
• Coordinate with project managers and junior staff to deliver on time and on budget.
• Provide guidance and quality control of model inputs and outputs.
• Support proposals, budgets, and client discussions for modelling work.

Skills

Hydraulic modelling

Hydrologic modelling

GIS data analysis

Model calibration

Data interpretation

Report writing

Mentorship

Project coordination

Communication skills

MS Office

Education

Bachelors in Civil Eng

P.Eng.

Mobility eligible

Tools

InfoWorks ICM

PCSWMM

InfoSWMM

WaterGEMS

WaterCAD

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.

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a Professional Engineer who has built the majority of their career around hydraulic and hydrologic modelling and wants to continue developing as a technical specialist in urban water systems. The successful candidate will have a strong interest in wastewater and stormwater collection systems, potable water distribution systems, or a combination of these areas. This is a modelling-focused role for someone who enjoys developing, calibrating, troubleshooting, and applying models to solve practical infrastructure planning and operational challenges.

Our team collaborates on projects across Canada and North America for municipal, regional, and other public- and private-sector clients. As part of the Urban Water Resources Water Delivery Team, you will contribute to the assessment and management of sanitary, stormwater, combined sewer, drainage, and water distribution systems. You will work with experienced modellers and project leaders, provide specialized modelling support to teams across the company, and take on increasing responsibility for technical delivery, quality, and mentorship while remaining actively involved in hands‑on modelling.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to hydraulic and hydrologic modelling assignments for wastewater, stormwater, combined sewer, drainage, and potable water systems.

• Develop, calibrate, validate, troubleshoot, maintain, and document hydraulic models using monitoring, GIS, SCADA, rainfall, operational, and other available system data.

• Assess existing-system capacity, performance, level of service, wet‑weather response, flood risk, servicing constraints, and operational issues.

• Develop and evaluate future growth, climate, operational, infrastructure, and remedial scenarios to support master planning, servicing studies, capital planning, and system optimization.

• Interpret model results, identify limitations and uncertainties, and translate technical findings into practical recommendations for clients and project teams.

• Prepare clear technical reports, memoranda, design briefs, presentations, figures, and model documentation.

• Plan or support field investigations and monitoring programs required for model development and calibration.

• Coordinate with project managers, discipline leads, GIS and data specialists, and junior staff to deliver high-quality work on schedule and within budget.

• Provide technical guidance, model review, and mentorship to developing modellers, including quality assurance and quality control of model inputs, assumptions, and outputs.

• Support proposals, work planning, level‑of‑effort estimates, and client discussions for modelling and urban water assignments.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Strong understanding of hydraulic and hydrologic principles as they apply to urban drainage, collection, and/or water distribution systems.

• Demonstrated experience developing, calibrating, validating, troubleshooting, and interpreting hydraulic models.

• Strong experience with at least one major modelling platform, such as InfoWorks ICM, PCSWMM, InfoSWMM, WaterGEMS, or WaterCAD. Experience with MIKE+, InfoWater, or other comparable platforms is also valued.

• Experience managing, analyzing, and interpreting large datasets, including flow, level, rainfall, SCADA, operational, and spatial data.

• Experience using GIS to support model development, results interpretation, mapping, and communication. AutoCAD experience is an asset.

• Ability to critically assess model inputs, assumptions, calibration quality, results, limitations, and fitness for purpose.

• Experience preparing clear, concise technical reports and presenting complex modelling results to technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Commitment to client service, technical quality, collaboration, and timely delivery.

• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Proficiency with common Microsoft 365 applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.

• Experience supporting proposals, scopes, budgets, and schedules is an asset.

• Complementary skill sets in applying optimization routines, scripting, automation tools, or AI agents to improve individual productivity and project efficiency, as well as climate change, asset management, river or coastal engineering, data visualization, or database management, are assets.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, water resources, environmental, or a related engineering discipline.

• Registered as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in a Canadian province, or eligible for registration through interprovincial mobility.

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant consulting, municipal, or utility experience, with the majority of that experience focused on hydraulic and hydrologic modelling.

• A record of progressively responsible technical work, including responsibility for model development, analysis, documentation, and delivery.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining seated for long periods of time. Hybrid work arrangement available.

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. At Stantec, we live our corporate values every day.

Pay Range:

Locations Outside of Lower Mainland - BC & Various locations in Ontario-$91,000.00 - $132,000.00 Annually

Locations in Lower Mainland - BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario-$96,500.00 - $139,900.00 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 | ON | Ottawa
Other Locations: Canada | ON | Stoney Creek
Organization: BC-1269 Water-CA Delivery
Employee Status: Regular
Management Level: Individual contributor
Business Justification: Replacement
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time

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