Strong communities don't just happen—they're built. They're creatively imagined, collaboratively planned, and readied to face tomorrow with optimism. Many of the world’s top engineers come together in our Water business because they view a community’s interaction with water a bit differently—as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. Every day, we help communities improve and grow with a vision for future generations. By 2025 we’re hiring 2,000 people (like you) to join our team. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding career that makes a positive impact on communities? Become a Municipal/Township Engineer/Project Manager for a Top 10 global design firm ranked by ENR Magazine year after year.  As the most sustainable company in North America as ranked by the Corporate Knights, we are always looking to push the envelope in creativity and sustainability to serve communities across the globe. Stantec’s Water Team is a large and diverse sector of client types, geography settings and service offerings. Within the Water Team, our municipal engineering practice provides a unique collaborative environment involving civil engineering, landscape architecture, community development, transportation, and client engagement. Work as part of a team and oversee projects of various sizes and complexity.  You will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of innovative and diverse projects, including the design of civil and municipal engineering projects for highways and local roads, public utilities and public works, parks, trails, and related infrastructure. The role will be multi-faceted as an owner’s representative in both developer driven initiatives and the implementation of needed capital improvements. Duties consists of developing construction plans and specifications, performing calculations, quality reviews, proposal and technical writing, and project management while leading the analysis of proposed projects to ensure technical reliability, resource efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with community objectives.

Your Key Responsibilities

Stantec’s multi-disciplinary office located in Ann Arbor, Michigan has an opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced Municipal Engineer with project management and municipal experience. With a strong background of design and construction engineering experience, this position requires an individual with strong leadership and proven management and business development skills to support growth, lead projects, and mentor junior staff. As a Municipal Engineer, you will be required to manage multiple projects simultaneously and will be responsible for collaborating with the local office and remote project teams, managing scope and deliverables, developing and managing project budgets, and performing internal and external project status reporting. Specific responsibilities of a Project Manager include, but are not limited to the following:

Execute and manage complex civil engineering designs and multidisciplinary projects with direct supervision over professional and technical staff. Perform/coordinate technical reviews of public infrastructure and land development on application submittals; this also includes coordinating specialized technical reviews by others (transportation, structural, photometric, etc.). Responsible for review program of plot plans/building plans for construction permits. Lead/coordinate design and plan production for public improvement projects, including underground infrastructure, non-motorized pathways, and park improvements. Ongoing coordination between developer personnel and township and field staff from concept plan through construction of the public improvements. Coordinate, attend preconstruction meetings for Township and developer contracted projects. Coordinate between design and field services throughout the construction phase. Execute internal, client, contractor, and public communications. Day-to-day management of multiple water resources and multi-disciplinary engineering projects in developing plan sets, specifications, budgets, and schedules to meet or exceed our clients’ expectations. This may include working with project team members from various office locations. Attend development related applicant and township staff meetings, including occasional (night) Planning Commission meetings. Supports the growth of the office and region through technical expertise and team mentorship, project management, and/or client management. Ability to collaborate and provide support to construction services staff and perform intermittent construction oversight will be required. Lead, coordinate, and delegate proposal, contract administration, and project management efforts. Collaboration with other company internal groups and disciplines and sub-consultants. Professional engineering design and project oversight including Quality Assurance and Quality Control. 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.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Strong project management skills, with experience in client service management. Experience in project management functions; contract administration, bidding regulations, and quality assessments. Demonstrated successful experience in leadership, including defining and setting the direction for a team, project, and office; strategy development; change management; and corporate stewardship. Experience in design functions, such as site planning, roads, drainage, grading, water systems, sanitary sewer systems and other municipal and private sector infrastructure. Knowledge of civil systems means and methods, materials, and industry standards. Understanding of all phases of engineering document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications. Travel to other offices as well as to project sites may be required.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in civil and/or environmental engineering, or equivalent required. Minimum 8 years’ relevant experience in project management, preferably for municipal engineering projects. Licensed Professional Engineer (PE)

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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