Structural Engineering Team Lead – Water

Overview

In this role you lead Stantec’s Structural Team within Water offices, guiding regional delivery and growth. You combine hands-on design work with people leadership, mentoring junior engineers and coordinating across offices to meet quality, budget and schedule goals. You’ll drive cross-office collaboration (e.g., with Pune) and use state-of-the-art techniques to deliver robust water-related structures. If you’re a Chartered engineer with strong communication and a pragmatic, collaborative mindset, this is an opportunity to shape projects and teams at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• pension plan
• holidays
• private medical insurance
• discounted gym membership
• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, line management and develop the group as a team
• Provide technical expertise in structural design to meet project needs using state-of-the-art techniques
• Drive integrated work with Pune for better collaboration
• Ensure projects are delivered on budget, on time and to quality standards
• Influence others through technical knowledge and communication skills
• Plan, forecast and coordinate resources with group managers
• Maintain up-to-date technical knowledge of survey, design, drafting, project and contract management standards
• Liaise with clients to engender trust in the Structural Group
• Provide technical assistance and training to staff as required
• Review and check others’ work and focus on priorities
• Support and development/mentoring for regional team members
• Build internal and external relationships with new clients and key stakeholders
• Adopt a hands-on approach to project delivery
• Travel to meet Structural Team in High Wycombe, London, Manchester and Bristol

Key requirements

• Degree qualified in Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering or related subject
• Chartered member of a relevant engineering institution (e.g., IStructE, ICE)
• Hands-on and up-to-date experience in Structural Engineering, in water engineering or similar
• Experience managing and mentoring junior staff
• Experience overseeing project budgets and timelines for structural engineering
• Ability to prepare and review technical documents, reports and proposals

• leadership
• mentoring
• communication
• structural design
• water retaining structures
• state-of-the-art design techniques

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