About the Role
This role provides a key technical leadership presence within our process engineering capability, contributing to the successful delivery of high-quality water and wastewater treatment solutions across New South Wales. With time this role extends to management type functions and leadership capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Plan, program and coordinate project activities with the Project Manager to ensure delivery on time, on budget and to the required quality standards.
- Lead and support process and technical engineering activities across planning, feasibility, concept design and detailed design for water and wastewater infrastructure.
- Prepare components of engineering proposals and maintain strong client relationships through proactive, clear and timely communication.
- Coordinate technical inputs and design activities with colleagues across other disciplines and business units.
- Ensure all technical outputs align with project scope, meet safety requirements and reflect high standards of engineering quality.
- Contribute to the growth of our water and wastewater design capability, including supporting new and existing client relationships.
- Provide guidance, mentoring and technical support to team members, helping to build capability across Graduate and Intermediate engineers.
- Support business development activities by contributing to proposal preparation and bid development as required.
Requirements
- Tertiary qualifications in Chemical, Process, environmental or a related engineering discipline, with minimum of 4 years’ experience.
- Chartered Engineer status (or clear progress toward achieving it).
- Demonstrated experience and technical and design capability in water treatment process engineering.
- Proven background delivering design solutions within an engineering consultancy environment.
- Strong understanding of water and wastewater assets, treatment processes and the broader delivery environment.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage subcontractors to achieve high-quality project outcomes.
- Highly developed problem-solving and negotiation skills, with the ability to navigate and resolve technical or commercial challenges.
- Strong report-writing skills with the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, compelling narratives.
Skills
- Process engineering
- Water treatment
- Wastewater treatment
- Project coordination
- Technical leadership
- Client engagement
- Cross-discipline collaboration
- Quality assurance
- Safety assurance
- Business development
- Mentoring
- Team development
- Proposal preparation
- Bid development
- Problem-solving
- Negotiation
- Report writing
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Part time
- Work from home
Experience Level
- Senior
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in Chemical, Process, environmental or a related engineering discipline
Salary/Compensations
- Attractive salary
Benefits
- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Options to work part time
- Flexibility to work from home
- Learning and Talent Development Programs and Training
- Purchasing up to four weeks’ additional leave
- Professional Registration and Memberships
- Salary Continuance Insurance (SCI)
- Salary Packaging
- Employee Resource Groups
- Developing Professionals Group
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Service Recognition Awards
About the Company
- Stantec's Water team in Australia has an impressive portfolio of successful major projects that are positively impacting communities.
- The Stantec community unites approximately 34,000 employees working in over 450+ locations across six continents.
- We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring water, transport and infrastructure projects to life.
- Our work from initial project concept and planning through design, construction and commissioning is built on a nearly 200-year history.
- We see the opportunity to make a lasting connection with the people and places where we live and work.
