Leads multidisciplinary engineering teams on mining studies and EPCM projects across surface and underground mining. Oversees technical delivery, engineering budgets, schedules, quality processes, procurement support, construction and commissioning assistance, risk management, and client technical engagement. Supervises engineers and designers, coordinates engineering interfaces, reviews technical packages and estimates, and ensures deliverables meet project and corporate standards.
Your Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Project Engineering Manager to join our Mining team in Canada, based out of one of our offices in Sudbury or North Bay ON, Saskatoon, Edmonton or Calgary AB, or Vancouver. As a Project Engineering Supervisor, you will serve various clients as part of mining studies and/or detailed engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) projects for surface and underground mining.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Build, supervise, and direct a team of Project Engineers/Project Technical Leaders in the planning and execution of project work including studies, detailed engineering, engineering support to procurement, and technical support during construction and commissioning.
- Act as a project technical lead or project engineering manager for projects.
- Regularly interface with the Client on project technical issues, while ensuring the identification and socialization of value opportunities, risks and mitigation to the project team and/or Client as applicable.
- Implementing, maintaining, evaluating, and adjusting engineering processes on projects. This includes confirmation that mandated quality control steps are being followed, including Stantec’s Prevention Through Design and Hazard/Constructability Review programs.
- Owning, monitoring, and reporting on engineering budget, progress, managing to engineering/procurement/construction schedules, and driving change management processes as they relate to engineering and design.
- Delivering the project’s engineering deliverables on schedule in accordance with corporate and project processes and standards, while ensuring that multi-disciplinary interfaces are correct and complete.
- Provide and/or coordinate engineering involvement in procurement and construction work packages, including scopes of supply/work, technical bid evaluations, recommendations to award, vendor/contractor data review, and responses to submittals and RFIs.
- Act as the technical lead for procurement supply packages to ensure packages are technically coordinated from conception to final installation.
- Provide input, leadership and direction for the integration of engineering inputs into project cost estimates and execution schedules.
- Support Stantec’s risk lead and/or client’s risk management programs.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- A thorough understanding of mining engineering studies and execution projects of varying scale.
- An understanding of engineering management, risk management, or cost engineering techniques as part of mining studies and engineering execution projects.
- Excellent knowledge of applicable design codes and familiarity with Mine Health and Safety Regulations.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, along with excellent interpersonal abilities and willingness to work in a team atmosphere including involvement in technical business development.
- Demonstrated motivational and leadership skills and project engineering experience.
- Strong mentoring skills and desire to encourage and coach junior staff.
- Ability to perform and complete a variety of tasks in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Ability to develop and review engineering plans and execution detail.
- Ability to develop and/or review of engineering estimate and develop engineering budget.
- Great experience in developing consistent engineering quality and quality management.
- Willingness to travel to client sites or other Stantec offices as needed.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited university.
- Professional Engineering license (or the ability to obtain a license) is preferred.
- Experience with leading the production of engineering document and drawing packages, and a comprehensive understanding of associated quality and document control methods.
- Experience supervising a team of engineers and designers.
- Experience leading mining engineering studies and execution projects of varying scale.
- 10-15+ years of engineering, design, and construction experience in heavy industry, particularly surface or underground mining, with 3 or more years’ experience managing engineering/design teams working on major projects.
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.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best. #FeelingEnergized
About UsAt Stantec, we help deliver the critical minerals needed to power our world, from the cars we drive to the infrastructure powering our communities. And we don’t just design the largest, deepest, and most technically challenging mines in the world—we do it sustainably. We’re helping clients reduce energy usage, adopt clean energy sources, and implement digital solutions and automation.
Join our team of mining professionals and you’ll be at the forefront of this evolving industry while building the mine of the future. You’ll also build your own future, with exciting opportunities for development and advancement.
About the Team Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a 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, and 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.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
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