Study Manager

Stantec

Study Manager managing mining studies for Stantec while liaising with clients and multidisciplinary teams. Delivering integrated studies and ensuring alignment based on client objectives.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeChandler • Arizona • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Understand the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines.
Drive the scope definition and execution planning for each study, working with a multi-disciplinary team to translate the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines into an actionable, controllable scope of work and plan of execution.
Implement study management processes and procedures, including risk and value management, option identification/evaluation/selection, and assurance activities as required.
Deliver integrated studies on time and within budget, while ensuring alignment between engineering, estimating, scheduling and risk from Order-of-Magnitude / Preliminary Economic Assessments through to Definitive Feasibility Studies.
Serve as a technical peer reviewer or Qualified Person in the execution of the technical components of the work. Answer questions and give daily guidance and communications to the project team, thus developing the team’s technical competence.
Assist the client with crafting the story of their studies, including engagement with other client stakeholders to present the progress and/or outcomes.
Understand and implement various stage gate study standard processes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven Mining Study or Project leadership experience with high emotional intelligence.
Influential leader, capable of weighing contradicting priorities and securing buy-in on compromise.
Risk management, commercial awareness, business analysis & reporting, and operational/business knowledge.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
An ability to effectively liaise with external and internal stakeholders from multiple cultures.
Comfort in managing a complex environment with a virtual team based around the world.
High degree of leadership, planning, teamwork, decision-making, judgment, and problem-solving skills.
An aptitude for steering multi-disciplinary teams towards a common objective.
Proven history of managing ambiguity and maintaining team progress during periods of significant change.
Assessor of value and risk.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related field from an accredited university is preferred.
Professional Engineering license (or the ability to obtain a license) is preferred.
Minimum of 10 years of relevant study/project and/or program management experience.
Direct study experience in the mining and or heavy industry sectors is advantageous.
A Master of Business Administration degree, while not necessary, is viewed as an asset.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
paid family leave
ten paid holidays in each calendar year
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)

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Hard Skills & Tools

risk managementbusiness analysisreportingproject managementscope definitionexecution planningtechnical peer reviewvalue assessmentdecision-makingproblem-solving

Soft Skills

emotional intelligenceinfluential leadershipcommunicationcollaborationteamworkjudgmentadaptabilitystakeholder engagementcultural awarenessplanning

Certifications

Professional Engineering licenseBachelor’s degree in EngineeringMaster of Business Administration