Project Manager - Industrial Water
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- BC-1813 Water-US Southwest
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- Jul 18, 2022 Post Date
At Stantec, we approach every industrial water project we undertake—whether at the local, re-gional, or national level— thoughtfully, and execute it with excellence across all project phases. We partner with our clients to design fit-for-purpose solutions that address their communities’ unique needs throughout the related infrastructure lifecycle. Our experts lead their fields and guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. We’re a place where you can apply your passion and collaborate with top talent on work that’s critical to our clients, our communities, and the industry at large.
Your Opportunity
Stantec's growing Industrial Water practices is seeking a highly motivated Project Manager / In-termediate Process Engineer to join our team. The candidate will support project proposals and application processes for industrial water in mining, power, oil & gas, Hitech, pharmaceutical, pulp & paper, manufacturing, and food & beverage throughout the US and Canada.
The Project Manager / Intermediate Process Engineer will be responsible for preparing new pro-posals, managing new and existing projects, developing solutions to project challenges, and managing a multi-disciplinary staff for successful completion of projects. The individual will inter-act internally throughout the organization with staff at all levels as well as externally with clients, members of business and professional organizations, subcontractors, and other firms. The can-didate will participate in business development activities such as networking with external clients and internal staff and participating in industrial water conferences to support the Industrial Water Leaders.
Candidate should be able to identify, evaluate, select, specify, and engineer systems or products for a project, and will perform a variety of tasks which may include inspection, troubleshooting, calculations, design sketches and concepts, estimating, calculating savings, report preparation and field work. Candidate should be comfortable presenting single source solutions.
Project management skills include communication, financial and schedule tracking as well as development of related interim plans to address challenges. Projects assigned may be broad, varied, and diverse in scope. You will analyze proposed projects to ensure safety, reliability, re-source efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Business development/application activities ranges from intentional listening to client needs and identifying related solution opportunities to high level business strategies and implementation planning. All Stantec industrial water project managers perform as seller-doers, routinely developing detailed proposals for a wide variety of project set-tings.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Performs business development/application tasks and collaborates with staff to increase project wins and develop long lasting client relationships. Routine tasks include:
- Participate in business line teams to manage and develop proposals
- Client facing for business development contact, meetings, walk-downs, and presentations
- Scope of work documents and estimates
- Division of responsibility (DOR) matrices
- Collaboration with multiple business lines to develop opportunities
- Quality reviews
- Assists senior engineers/designers with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing, and schedule.
- Performs complex engineering design tasks on assigned industrial water and wastewater-related projects through collaboration with a wide range of technical disci-plines. Routine technical tasks include:
- Design basis documents
- Engineering calculations including water, heat, and material balances
- Equipment sizing and selection
- Engineering drawings such as block flow diagrams (BFDs), process flow dia-grams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (PIDs)
- Engineering reports
- Feasibility studies
- Presentations to clients, regulatory agencies and/or project stakeholders
- Quality reviews
- Engages in the development of a design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
- Lead in management of others in developing and coordination of the project construction specifications.
- Conducts and/or coordinates quality assurance and quality control on assigned projects and facilitates independent technical review projects by others.
- Reviews contractor/vendor submittals for adherence to Contract Documents and indus-try standards.
- Assists with the management of the design and construction of projects.
- Involved in the permitting process of projects, which may require meeting with clients, contractors, interested stakeholder parties, reviewing agency personnel.
- Coordinates with the regulatory review to seek final approval.
- Assists in the development and updates of project design standards and guidelines; pre-pares abstracts and technical papers/presentations.
- Manage a team of design professionals and technicians
- Management of projects of varying complexity within multidisciplinary teams
- Mentor and supervise staff and develop high-performing project teams
- Assist with business development pursuits including identifying customers, proposal preparation and participation in interviews
- Interact with clients and management regarding status of project scope, schedule, and budget
- Apply and share experience/knowledge of design expertise
- Lead and manage preparation of construction documents including plans, specifications, return on investment, and construction cost estimates
- Research and understand issues related to regulatory and other drivers that impact indi-vidual projects
- Ensure that projects' needs are met in a timely and effective manner
- Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.
- Coordinate with marketing to maintain social media presence including LinkedIn posts, webinars, and blog posts
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Have the ability to work well in a team environment without direct supervision
- Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, along with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks
- Possess a hard-working and positive attitude
- Ability to perform mass & energy balance and process equipment sizing calculations and coordinate with other engineering disciplines including stress/structural, instrumentation & controls, and electrical.
- Ability to quickly assess industrial water process for core plant functions
- Ability to translate industrial water process into clear diagrams such as BFDs, PFDs, and PIDs.
- General understanding of all phases of project document production, client procurement procedures, and regulatory approval processes.
- Ability to participate and collaborate in project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought.
- Ability to effectively discuss project issues with clients, contractors, equipment suppli-ers/vendors, funding agencies and reviewing agencies; to deliver technical presentations in public forums in conferences and technical symposia.
- Possesses excellent time-management skills, thorough understanding of task assignment and schedule, budgeting and efficient use of time and available resources.
- Understanding of local and regional jurisdictional codes, legal and design requirements in relevant jurisdictions.
- Proficient in Microsoft (MS) Office Suite and Adobe.
- Experience with other software, such as Fathom, ASPEN, BioWin, Membrane Modeling Software desirable but not required.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Chemical, Mechanical, or Civil/Environmental Engi-neering from an accredited institution.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of industrial water process experience.
- PE license preferred.
- PMP certification desirable, but not required
Typical office environment working with computers and working at a desk for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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