Senior Water Resources Engineer
Stantec
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ottawa • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
About the role
- Act as project lead for water resources assignments, including planning, analysis, and design
- Lead drainage and stormwater management components of multidisciplinary projects, as well as water-resources-led studies
- Develop clear work plans, manage scope, schedule, and budget, and proactively identify and manage delivery risk
- Provide technical direction and review for hydrologic and hydraulic analyses and modeling
- Oversee and guide work completed by junior and intermediate staff, providing mentorship through review and discussion
- Prepare and review technical reports, memoranda, and design documentation
- Participate in proposal preparation, including scope development, methodology, and technical review
- Interface with clients, municipalities, and review agencies as required to support project delivery
- Representative project types include climate change vulnerability, natural hazard assessments, flood risk assessment and mitigation studies, drainage and stormwater management design, and hydrologic and hydraulic assessments
Requirements
- Strong understanding of Ontario municipal, provincial, conservation authority, and federal standards and permitting processes
- Highly proficient in hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, modelling platforms and design of public infrastructure projects in urban and rural settings
- Experience applying hydrologic and hydraulic theory to real-world design and decision-making
- Skilled in statistical software like R and HEC-SSP, and GIS mapping and geoprocessing tools such as Q-GIS or ArcGIS
- Experience reviewing and guiding spreadsheet-based and statistical analyses
- Ability to communicate technical findings clearly and concisely in written and verbal formats
- Working knowledge of CADD software such as Autodesk Civil3D / Bentley OpenRoads
- Experience with scripting, automation, or applied digital tools is considered an asset.
- Undergraduate degree in Water Resources, Civil or Environmental Engineering from a recognized post-secondary institution. A graduate degree in the hydrotechnical discipline will be considered an asset.
- Registered with PEO as a P.Eng. (or eligible to register)
- Minimum 7 years of related experience
Benefits
- Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans
- Wellness program
- Health care spending account
- Wellness spending account
- Group registered retirement savings plan
- Employee stock purchase program
- Group tax-free savings account
- Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
- Short-term/long-term disability plans
- Emergency travel benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional membership fee coverage
- Paid time off
- Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
hydrologic analysishydraulic analysisstatistical analysismodeling platformsdrainage designstormwater management designflood risk assessmentclimate change vulnerability assessmentgeoprocessingscripting
Soft skills
project managementmentorshipcommunicationtechnical directionrisk managementscope managementbudget managementschedule managementteam leadershipclient interface
Certifications
P.Eng.undergraduate degree in Water Resourcesundergraduate degree in Civil Engineeringundergraduate degree in Environmental Engineeringgraduate degree in hydrotechnical discipline