Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Your Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Specification Writer to join our team and play a key role in delivering high-quality, technically accurate project documentation across a wide range of building types. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, collaborative, and skilled at navigating the fast-paced, evolving demands of design and construction projects.

Your Key Responsibilities

Prepare comprehensive project specifications for assignments of varying scale, complexity, and building type, working closely with project managers and design teams.
Develop, maintain, and update firmwide master specifications in coordination with other specification writers.
Ensure alignment between in-house project specifications and consultant specifications, facilitating seamless coordination across disciplines.
Plan, schedule, and manage your specification workload to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Support project teams by researching, evaluating, and recommending building products, systems, materials, and construction methods.
Maintain strong knowledge of current industry trends, new technologies, and evolving code requirements through proactive research and ongoing communication with manufacturers and technical experts.
Build and maintain professional relationships with product representatives and industry specialists to validate and enhance specification accuracy.

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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