As a principal-level technical leader, you will provide senior technical direction, project leadership, and quality oversight for complex water and wastewater infrastructure projects, with particular emphasis on advanced process engineering, process modeling, digital solutions, and technical innovation. This role guides multidisciplinary teams through planning, design, implementation, startup, and optimization; advances design quality and constructability; mentors technical staff; and serves as a trusted advisor to clients, project managers, discipline leaders, and delivery leadership. A key aspect of the role is to help advance the industry’s future technical needs by championing development and deployment of advanced technical tools, AI-enabled tools, digital twins, analytical models, and scalable workflows that improve quality, efficiency, risk management, and project delivery. The role requires demonstrated expertise in wastewater process engineering, process modeling and analysis, technical leadership, and practical implementation of engineered solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities

Advance innovation, standardization, cross-training, and development of advanced technical tools, AI-enabled tools, digital twins, analytical models, and scalable workflows; serve as a technical resource across the North American Water practice to strengthen capability across teams and business centers.
Serve as principal technical advisor and senior reviewer for complex water and wastewater treatment projects, with emphasis on advanced process engineering, process modeling, optimization, and digital decision support.
Lead multidisciplinary teams through planning, design, permitting, procurement, implementation, startup, commissioning, and optimization.
Provide senior technical direction for wastewater treatment processes and facilities, including biological treatment, resource recovery, process intensification, energy efficiency, and related process/mechanical systems.
Lead QA/QC, constructability, biddability, operability, maintainability, and risk reviews for designs, specifications, reports, construction documents, and contractor submittals.
Translate advanced technical analyses, process models, research findings, and emerging technologies into practical design and operational guidance that improves quality, reduces risk, and supports successful project delivery.
Advise project managers and technical leads on scope, staffing, budget, schedule, delivery strategy, risk mitigation, and project execution.
Coordinate with clients, agencies, contractors, vendors, technology partners, universities, subconsultants, and internal delivery teams to resolve complex technical issues and advance innovative solutions.
Lead or support construction, startup, and commissioning activities, including field issue resolution, technical review, operational troubleshooting, and implementation of advanced process solutions.
Develop and review technical memoranda, design criteria, specifications, modeling studies, digital workflows, equipment procurement documents, construction-phase documentation, and senior-level reports. Mentor engineers and technical leads in process engineering, modeling, digital tools, technical judgment, and disciplined project delivery.
Support business development, client account management, proposal strategy, interviews, and pursuit positioning with senior technical credibility.
Target utilization 60% to 65%

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

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Senior Process Technical Advisor