Senior Civil Engineer - Water Projects

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Paid holidays

Vacation & sick leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional membership fees

401(k) plan

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a senior engineer and project manager to lead our Knoxville, Tennessee office and grow water/civil services in the Southeast. The role combines technical leadership on dams, flood protection, and water infrastructure with staff recruitment, mentoring, and business development.

You will supervise engineers, drive project delivery, and engage with clients while maintaining the high standards of Stantec’s Water Business Line.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or similar.
• Licensed Professional Engineer with reciprocity potential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multi-disciplinary projects and teams.
• Develop project scopes, budgets and design for water resources and civil projects.
• Serve as Engineer-of-Record on projects.
• Recruit, onboard and mentor staff in Knoxville and Southeast Region.
• Coordinate with Business Center Leadership Team to drive growth and client engagements.
• Support proposals, client interviews and project negotiations.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Client communication

Mentoring

Team leadership

Civil engineering

Water resources

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor's in civil engineering

PE license

Tools

AutoCAD Civil 3D

HEC-RAS

HEC-HMS

GeoStudio

Plaxis

PCSWMM

HydroCAD

Job description

Communities everywhere share the need for clean and reliable water and be safe from the dangers it imposes. 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 help communities improve, reuse, control, and protect our world’s most precious resource.

Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us and redefine what’s possible, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a leader for our Knoxville, Tennessee office to grow and manage Stantec’s services in the Knoxville area and collaborate with teams across the southeast. This role will work closely with the Business Center Leadership Team to promote growth in the Knoxville and surrounding markets and maintain hands‑on technical roles for various projects. The right candidate will have extensive experience managing and executing a variety of Water/Civil projects, staff recruitment and development, managing a multi‑discipline team, and business development.

As a senior engineer and project manager in Stantec’s Water Business Line, your role is to work on and lead projects both small and large, leading and supervising a team to execute the work. You will perform a variety of tasks related to civil engineering in support of dams, flood protection, power, water resources, and water infrastructure projects that may include calculations, modeling, design, planning, reporting, field work, construction, management and coordination of tasks and assignments, and client interaction. Additionally, you serve as the leader for the Knoxville Office to help recruit, onboard, mentor, supervise, and train staff to assist the business line with building a multi‑discipline team in Knoxville and the Southeast Region.

In this role you will have the opportunity to lead an office with the full capabilities of a worldwide engineering firm that can provide anything a client in our region would request. This role will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to expand their engineering knowledge, grow into different sectors, lead business development efforts, and get involved with teams around the country working on interesting and innovative projects that directly influence the communities we live in.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Working with the Business Center Leadership Team to identify top priorities, key pursuits, and goals for the Knoxville office and team, and working collaboratively to achieve those goals.

• Developing and maintaining a strong culture in the Knoxville office, consistent with Stantec’s overall mission and objectives and in alignment with Southeast Region goals.

• Contributing to multiple projects simultaneously, whether in managerial, technical, or support roles.

• Assisting in developing project scope, budgets, and design for various sized projects, supporting marketing and business development professionals in positioning for potential projects, writing technical portions of proposals, participating in client interviews, and supporting negotiations for project contracts.

• Growing internal and external networks to enhance Stantec’s reputation and identifying additional talent to join our team, specifically in the Knoxville area.

• Recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding staff across key water disciplines and spanning experience levels to develop a well‑rounded team, specifically in the Knoxville area.

• Providing mentoring, training, supervision and leadership for junior staff.

• Promoting collaboration and teamwork within the Southeast Region offices and across business lines and geographies, connecting the Knoxville office to the broader Stantec network.

• Serving as Engineer‑of‑Record on projects.

• Assisting with establishing project objectives, procedures, and performance standards, and leading multi‑disciplinary teams on proposals, planning studies, feasibility through final designs, and construction services for multi‑disciplinary engineering projects, with focus in the dams, flood protection, power, water resources and water infrastructure sectors.

• Supervising the work of other engineers, including setting priorities for their scope of work, their budgets and their schedules for completing the work.

• Maintaining and enhancing our reputation with clients, approval agencies, and industry professionals as an outstanding service provider.

• Remaining current on regulatory policy and rule changes and may establish working relationships with regulatory officials.

• Working in a manner to protect the health and safety of Stantec employees, clients, and the public by following company health, safety and security guidelines and policies.

• Engaging in professional organizations that align with expertise, writing technical papers, and delivering technical presentations for conference and symposia events.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Demonstrated ability and desire to work with, and contribute to, a larger team. Previous leadership or people management experience, including project‑related work, is highly desirable.
• Effective communicator and able to work on and lead teams.
• Ability to communicate and build relationships with clients.
• Understanding of client expectations, budgeting, proposal writing, and producing high quality deliverables.
• Efficient project management/technical leadership of assigned tasks on multiple concurrent projects.
• Leads, participates, and collaborates in a project team setting and engages in creative and critical thought.
• Technical expertise in many relevant areas of design and understanding of various design and construction methods.
• Strong understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications.
• Strong knowledge of civil systems means and methods, materials, and industry standards.
• Requisite knowledge, interpretation, and application of design and construction codes.
• Strong presentation and interview skills.
• Requires an understanding of Microsoft Office, as well as relevant discipline software programs, which may include HEC products (RAS, HMS, etc.), GeoStudio, FLAC, Plaxis, AutoCAD Civil3D, PCSWMMM, HydroCAD, or other software.
• Ability to travel 10-20% of the time. Typical office environment working with computers and working at a desk for long periods. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or similar required.
• Licensed Professional Engineer in at least one jurisdiction with the ability to obtain reciprocity in others, as needed.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience.

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.

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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) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, 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 family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

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: United States | TN | Knoxville
Organization: 1755 Water-US South-Knoxville TN
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.