About the Role
Stantec's growing Industrial Water practice is seeking a highly motivated Process Engineer with industrial process, application, and operations experience to join our team in our Austin, TX office. The candidate will support project proposal and delivery processes throughout the US and Canada with a focus on the US South Region within the advanced manufacturing, datacenters, upstream and downstream oil and gas, chemical processing industry, power, food and beverage, mining, and pharma markets. The role involves leading process evaluation and design efforts across all phases of the project lifecycle, networking with professionals, and supporting business development initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Perform business development/application tasks and collaborate with staff to increase project wins and develop long lasting client relationships.
- Participate in business line teams to manage and develop proposals.
- Scope of work development and labor hours estimates.
- Division of responsibility (DOR) matrices.
- Quality reviews.
- Perform complex engineering design tasks on assigned water, power and industrial process and wastewater-related projects through collaboration with a wide range of technical disciplines.
- Design basis documents.
- Engineering calculations including mass and energy balances.
- Review of regulatory requirements.
- Engineering documents, specifications, and drawings.
- Review and evaluation of technology-based solutions.
- Engineering reports.
- Feasibility studies.
- Development of opinions of probable cost (OPC) for both capital costs and operations & maintenance (O&M) costs.
- Presentations to clients, regulatory agencies and/or project stakeholders.
- Engage in the development of a design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
- Assist project managers with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing, and schedule.
- Development and coordination of project construction specifications.
- Conduct and/or coordinate quality assurance and quality control on assigned projects and facilitates independent technical review projects by others.
- Reviews contractor/vendor submittals for adherence to Contract Documents and industry standards.
- Involved in the permitting process of projects, which may require meeting with clients, contractors, interested stakeholder parties, reviewing agency personnel.
- Coordinates with the regulatory review to seek final approval.
- Assists in the development and updates of project design standards and guidelines.
- Interact with clients and management regarding status of project scope, schedule, and budget.
- Apply and share experience/knowledge of design expertise.
- Preparation of construction documents including plans, specifications, and construction cost estimates.
- Research and understand issues related to regulatory and other drivers that impact individual projects.
- Ensure that projects' needs are met in a timely and effective manner.
- Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.
Requirements
- Industrial process, application, and operations experience.
- Ability to evaluate, select, specify, and engineer systems or products for a project.
- Ability to perform or supervise and review a variety of tasks which may include calculations, design sketches and concepts, report preparation and field work.
- Ability to analyze proposed projects to meet client needs and standards by ensuring safety, reliability, resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- Ability to develop technical scopes and budgets for project delivery.
- Ability to develop detailed proposals for a wide variety of project settings.
- Experience with design basis documents.
- Experience with engineering calculations including mass and energy balances.
- Experience with review of regulatory requirements.
- Experience with engineering documents, specifications, and drawings.
- Experience with review and evaluation of technology-based solutions.
- Experience with engineering reports.
- Experience with feasibility studies.
- Experience with development of opinions of probable cost (OPC) for both capital costs and operations & maintenance (O&M) costs.
- Experience with presentations to clients, regulatory agencies and/or project stakeholders.
- Experience with quality reviews.
- Experience with development of a design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
- Experience assisting project managers with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing, and schedule.
- Experience with development and coordination of project construction specifications.
- Experience conducting and/or coordinating quality assurance and quality control on assigned projects and facilitates independent technical review projects by others.
- Experience reviewing contractor/vendor submittals for adherence to Contract Documents and industry standards.
- Experience with the permitting process of projects, which may require meeting with clients, contractors, interested stakeholder parties, reviewing agency personnel.
- Experience coordinating with the regulatory review to seek final approval.
- Experience assisting in the development and updates of project design standards and guidelines.
- Experience interacting with clients and management regarding status of project scope, schedule, and budget.
- Experience applying and sharing knowledge of design expertise.
- Experience with preparation of construction documents including plans, specifications, and construction cost estimates.
- Experience researching and understanding issues related to regulatory and other drivers that impact individual projects.
- Experience ensuring that projects' needs are met in a timely and effective manner.
Skills
- Process engineering
- Industrial process
- Application
- Operations
- Business development
- Project delivery
- Technical project delivery
- Engineering
- Environmental
- Water
- Wastewater
- Calculations
- Design sketches
- Concepts
- Report preparation
- Field work
- Safety
- Reliability
- Resource efficiency
- Cost-effectiveness
- Client needs analysis
- Technical scope development
- Budget development
- Proposal development
- Mass balances
- Energy balances
- Regulatory requirements analysis
- Engineering documents
- Specifications
- Drawings
- Technology evaluation
- Engineering reports
- Feasibility studies
- Cost estimation
- Client presentations
- Regulatory agency presentations
- Stakeholder presentations
- Quality assurance
- Quality control
- Construction specifications
- Permitting
- Project management support
- Design standards development
- Design guidelines development
- Client interaction
- Management interaction
- Construction documents preparation
- Construction cost estimates
- Regulatory drivers analysis
- Project needs assessment
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- Medical plans
- Dental plans
- Vision plans
- Wellness program
- Health saving accounts
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) plan
- Employee stock purchase program
- Life insurance
- Accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
- Short-term disability plans
- Long-term disability plans
- Emergency travel benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional membership fee coverage
- Paid family leave
- Ten paid holidays
- Vacation accrual (10-20 days per year)
- Paid sick leave
About the Company
- Many of the world’s top engineers and scientists come together in our Water business because they view a community’s interaction with water a bit differently—as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries.
- Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, we are delivering sustainable solutions to make sure water is where it should be and available when needed.
- Our experts guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth.
- Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect this precious resource for future generations.
- By 2025 we’re hiring 2,000 people (like you) to join our team.
- Grow with us, H2O+U.
