Project Manager

Management and Technology Consulting (MTC) is Stantec’s industry leading management consulting team, recognized in providing asset and organizational performance, financial, economic, funding, planning, as well as business and operational technology consulting services to communities and utilities across North America. We partner with our clients to tackle complex problems and design fit-for-purpose solutions that address their unique needs. Our team is comprised of experts in their fields that guide our work with analytical rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. We are a place where you can apply your passion and collaborate with top talent on work that’s critical to ensuring sustainable quality of life services in communities of all shapes and sizes. We are seeking a candidate to lead the delivery of strategic projects and to drive growth of our services in the West Region. with an emphasis in California.

Your Key Responsibilities

This position is an external client-facing position with our Management Consulting Team.

As a Project Manager within the Management Consulting Team, you will be supporting asset, organizational, financial, infrastructure funding, economic, and technology consulting services to local governments and utilities in North America.

The successful candidate will:

Serve as a primary member of multiple teams at client meetings, including interactive use of analytical tools and facilitating workshops; as well as direct and train junior staff in these areas.

In many cases, serve as the client account manager and project manager for client engagements, ensuring delivery of high-quality services on time and within budget.

Work dynamically with project teams to identify best-fit solutions to complex business, strategic, infrastructure, and operational issues, that involve elevated risk.

Assist the project team in interactive meetings with our clients to identify and analyze issues affecting their organizations and key stakeholders.

Maintain and assist with growing client relationships and lead business development efforts in responding to client requests, RFQs, and RFPs.

Serve as an independent reviewer of analysis prepared by peers or junior staff to ensure technical accuracy and appropriateness of methods and tools being utilized as well as solutions being evaluated.

Meet performance goals and objectives assigned, with respect to client-specific demands, stated delivery milestones, quality standards, project management framework, mentoring of junior staff, and all required training activities.

Capabilities and Credentials

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of and interest in local government organizational structure, budgeting / reporting, infrastructure funding, and types of services they provide is required.
• Working knowledge and understanding of federal funding programs and policies and state funding programs and policies in targeted geographies including California.
• Working experience in consulting related to infrastructure funding, economics, pricing, financial analysis and/or working for local government agencies in these areas:
• Knowledge of and experience with local government funding mechanisms, infrastructure policy, and legal requirements
• Water infrastructure funding and cost recovery experience in California
• Direct work experience/history with local government agencies and community-based organizations
• Elements of project management experience, including preparing and managing project scope, schedule, team activities, communication, and deliverables.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
• Capable of presenting/sharing analyses in an interactive work setting while being able to make adjustments in a live setting.
• Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Management experience and the ability to directly manage staff and to manage large and diverse project teams to deliver client projects.
• Strong sense of Team. Always willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire Team.
• Strong attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.
• Willing to travel as needed. Travel may be initially 10-15%, potentially growing up to 25%. 
• Requires a satisfactory driving record.
• Traits and Attributes of Top Performers
• Intellectual curiosity: Top performers are driven to ask why things work or don’t work currently and how we might address this—even if, or especially if, this thinking falls outside of conventional wisdom. We need bold thinkers willing to challenge assumptions and develop new solutions.
• Lifelong learners: This field provides ample opportunities to develop new skills and tools, and to combine left and right brain thinking to combine math, modeling, and an understanding of public perception to solve complex problems. There are little to no “routine” answers. The most successful candidates have a genuine desire to continually learn to solve our clients’ problems and improve the communities we serve.
• Analytical problem solvers: Top performers understand (or are capable of quickly learning) how different factors, variables, and policies result in corresponding financial impacts. They understand how to make appropriate simplifying assumptions and how to model complex systems accurately.
• Collaboration and co-creation: Successful candidates will have the ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, disciplines and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner, to achieve a common goal.
• Creativity and adaptability: Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation.
• Strategic and systematic thinking: Top performers will be able to synthesize different sides of an issue by examining a range of options and outcomes, considering the interconnectedness of elements as parts of a whole system, and building intellectual frameworks to guide decisions, solve problems, support innovation, and inform analysis and action.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: Strong candidates will both seek and thrive on all opportunities and risks; Top performers will leverage tenacity and optimism to innovate, effect change, break orthodoxies and create new value for clients.
• Sincere desire to please our clients: Top performers seem to have an innate drive, beyond personal gain, for ensuring that our clients are pleased with our performance and our deliverables, and they realize that providing rigorous, error-free, and unbiased advisory services is a critical step in ensuring the client’s long-term sustainability. Top performers draw on this deeper motivation, as it takes time and effort to drive change with our clients.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in business, mathematics, finance, economics, statistics, data science, engineering, accounting, or related fields are required. Master’s Degree is a plus.

7+ years total post-undergraduate working experience 

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.

Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.

Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.