Strong communities don’t just happen. They’re thoughtfully planned and future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home.

If you’re passionate about empowering communities, join us to discover a career with endless opportunities to make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable. 

Your Opportunity

Our Texas team is looking for a Principal for our Community Development Team in San Antonio, Plano or Austin, TX. This role will be responsible for future business development/marketing and growth of our community development business in Texas. The selected candidate will be a local leader in providing exceptional land development and general civil engineering for public and private projects. This role will report to the Regional Business Leader.

Our Community Development team works with and support projects from other disciplines in the local area and is part of a team that works on projects across the western US. We thrive on collaboration with cross-functional teams and a client-focused environment.

Join us to be part of a highly skilled team working on the region’s most critical projects.

Your Key Responsibilities

Serve as one of the primary contact for our external clients and has overall responsibility for all aspects of, and the success of team projects. This position offers career development, the opportunity to expand the practice, and has the potential of participation in our leadership recognition program.
Lead and mentor a team of professional and technical civil engineering staff.
Lead the marketing and business development efforts for the local Community Development team.
Lead the recruiting efforts necessary to build a strong team of professionals and support staff.
Prepare proposals and coordinate with clients, team members, and sub-consultants.
Perform planning phase activities, including project research and investigations, assessment of project feasibility, and provide input to project team on civil engineering related issues.
Direct all aspects of civil engineering design including layout/geometry, grading, drainage, paving, water, sewer, and erosion control. Projects may include land development (all types/sectors), roadway/intersection design, hydrology/hydraulic stormwater modeling, hydraulic modeling of pipe networks, preparation of construction plans, and related design reports.
Oversee preparation of complete submission packages, supporting calculations, cost estimates, project schedules, and other duties.
Monitor and control project progress, staffing, budgets, and methods of analysis and objectives and keep clients informed of progress, budget, work progress and challenges.
Plan and execute QA/QC plan for individual projects.

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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Principal Engineer - Community Development