Stantec Inc.

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About the position Responsibilities • Grow the Roads & Highway engineering and management business practice within the US Mountain (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada) business center. • Lead a team of highly skilled engineers, engineers in training, technologists, designers, and interns to successfully execute projects of varying sizes and complexity. • Consult and network with key clients and contribute to client account planning as required. • Manage the workload and resource planning for the Roads & Highway team, maximizing productivity and ensuring team utilization is reasonable, and tasks are distributed fairly amongst the team. • Track and drive team performance against established key performance indicators (KPIs). • Conduct staff performance reviews and support career development. • Provide input and recommendations on compensation for direct reports, including promotions. • Provide mentorship, ensure the technical development of junior designers and EIT's. • Recommend and participate in the hiring process and decision making of new team members, with the support of Human Resources. • Consult with other leadership to ensure alignment of corporate goals and effective use of resources and knowledge. • Coordinate with other discipline leads to ensure resources are allocated properly and projects are executed. • Provide internal leadership in design excellence, coaching, engagement, and retention. • Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned. • The Roads & Highway Team Lead will have a degree of autonomy, entrusted to oversee more complex engineering design projects, working with the client and team resources for the preparation of engineering deliverables, such as design drawings, cost estimates, construction specifications, engineering reports and support to required applications to regulatory agencies. • Participates in business development and project pursuits, leading, or contributing to preparation of work proposals to clients. • Collaboration with other engineering disciplines and supporting technical/drafting staff, coordinating the efficient production of deliverables workplan within budgets. • Responsible for ensuring quality plans/reviews undertaken and, when appropriate, sealing of projects as Engineer of Record for projects they directly supervise. • Oversee and manage multiple projects, managing a variety of multi-disciplinary engineering design projects, including preliminary to detailed design, and, when applicable, the preparation of tender/bidding documents and engineering support through the construction phase of projects. • Facilitates resources to support the permitting process of projects, which may require meeting with clients, contractors, and reviewing agency personnel. • Coordinates with clients and Regulatory Agencies for reviews and approvals. Requirements • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related professional degree. • Licensed Professional Engineer • Minimum of 15 years of progressive and collective experience, including project management, project design, and construction engineering of roads and highways. • Comprehensive technical understanding of various phases of infrastructure projects, including conventional and alternative delivery methods. • Thorough understanding of project scoping, identification of deliverables, tasks, scheduling, resources and levels of effort, and project budgeting. • Strong communication and problem-solving skills, and aptitude for leadership, managing people and delivery of infrastructure projects. • Experience with technical guidelines, codes and construction standards of key public authorities such as State Department of Transportation(s), FHWA, and AASHTO. • Ability to effectively discuss project issues with clients and stakeholders. • Excellent time-management skills and ability to work independently. • Strong understanding of the functionality of relevant design software, including AutoCAD, Civil3D, MicroStation, OpenRoads, and Auto-Turn. Benefits • 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.