About this role

About the Role

You will serve as the strategic bridge between regional project execution, digital innovation, and global discipline strategy. Your focus will span technical governance, resource optimization, bid leadership, and team development.

Key responsibilities include:

Delivery & Operational Governance: Drive consistently high delivery standards and quality control across all regional water projects, monitoring key metrics to mitigate operational risk and optimize commercial health.

Strategic Resourcing: Collaborate with Framework Managers, Project Managers, and Resource Managers to align the right technical skills with strategic projects and framework commitments.

Client & Bidding Strategy: Serve as a technical subject matter expert during strategic bids and client presentations, partnering with Market Area Leads to translate emerging client needs into smart, scalable digital and information management solutions.

Digital Transformation & BIM Integration: Manage and refine the Project Delivery System (PDS) and technical toolsets. Champion BIM adoption, automation tools, and workflow rationalization to achieve measurable efficiency gains.

Discipline Leadership: Provide line management, mentorship, and structured career development for Project Technical Leads (PTLs). Spearhead regional recruitment, onboard talent, and build a resilient, diverse community of practice.

Your Impact

In this role, your influence will extend far beyond individual project delivery. By setting the benchmark for digital governance and information management across our Water operations, you will directly enhance how we deliver major capital programs and framework agreements.

You will empower our Technical Lead’s to grow their careers, drive adoption of cutting-edge BIM and automation workflows, and act as an ambassador for Stantec across industry bodies, clients, and joint-venture partners. Your leadership will ensure our projects are delivered safely, sustainably, efficiently, and to the highest technical standards.

About You

You are an experienced discipline leader or technical manager with a passion for digital delivery, technical quality, and people development within an engineering or professional services consultancy environment.

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

Technical & Governance Leadership: A strong track record leading technical project delivery, technical assurance, and risk mitigation protocols within complex matrix organizations.

Digital & BIM Expertise: Deep familiarity with modern Information Management frameworks, BIM standards, project delivery systems, and digital automation tools.

People & Resource Management: Proven experience in direct line management, talent acquisition, mentoring, and strategic resource management across multi-disciplinary teams.

Commercial & Stakeholder Acumen: Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to influence senior clients, support strategic bids, and build strong cross-functional relationships.

Why Join Stantec

We put people first: We're proud of our friendly, inclusive and collaborative environment where everyone feels valued and driven to succeed.

We are driven to achieve: Named in the top 50 companies to work for by Glassdoor 2025. Recognised by Corporate Knights as one of the world's top 10 most sustainable companies 2025. Named 'Best Place to Work' and 'International Consulting Firm of the Year' at the NCE Awards 2024.

We do what is right: Industry leading training and development as well as paid for professional subscriptions. A professional progression plan, supporting you to become chartered with ICE.

We are better together: A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups).

Growth: We're on an exciting growth journey across the UK and we want you to be part of it!

Great benefits: Competitive salary, bonus schemes, enhanced pension plan, annual leave with the option to buy/sell additional days, private medical insurance, group income protection and life assurance included as standard as well as discounted gym membership and lots more.

Hybrid / flexible working: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with our hybrid approach to flexible working.

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.

Information Management - Regional Lead