Senior Engineering Design Manager, Water Infrastructure

 Are you ready to lead transformative design efforts that improve communities and protect vital resources? We’re seeking a Senior Engineer / Design Manager to join our growing Water team in Portland, Oregon. In this role, you’ll guide multidisciplinary design teams to deliver innovative, constructible, and sustainable solutions across a diverse portfolio of water infrastructure projects. 

You’ll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, manage design schedules and deliverables, and ensure technical excellence throughout the project lifecycle. If you’re passionate about design leadership and want to work with the best, for the best, we want to hear from you. 

At Stantec, we offer more than just a job. You’ll find a flexible, supportive environment, industry-leading benefits, and a culture that values creativity, inclusion, and growth. We believe that when people from diverse backgrounds come together, we create extraordinary outcomes. 

 

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Design Coordination: Lead and integrate inputs from civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and process engineering disciplines to deliver cohesive and constructible designs. 

• Project Management: Develop and manage design schedules, budgets, and deliverables in alignment with overall project timelines and client expectations. 

• Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate communication between clients, consultants, contractors, and internal teams to resolve design issues and align expectations. 

• Quality Assurance: Review design documents for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable codes, standards, and project requirements. 

• Risk Management: Identify design-related risks and implement mitigation strategies early in the project lifecycle. 

• Documentation & Reporting: Maintain organized records of design decisions, revisions, and approvals; prepare regular progress reports for leadership and clients. 

• Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide design team members, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. 

 

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