Team Lead

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties worldwide and are devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.

Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment.

Your Opportunity

An opportunity exists for a highly motivated, personable, and very organized Team Lead (TL) for our growing Site Investigation and Remediation (SIR) team, part of the Environmental Services Business Centre (BC). You will report directly to the SIR Senior Team Lead (STL) and work closely with other BC TLs and the BC Leadership team. As a TL, you will help shape the development of staff and grow our business through ongoing resource planning, recruitment, and retention.

Growing your career sometimes means taking chances and moving outside of your comfort zone. It also means raising your hand for opportunities that further your technical, leadership, and client services skills. If you are interested in evolving your professional experience, apply today

This role can be based in one of our Stantec offices located in Alberta or the Northwest Territories.

Your Key Responsibilities

Technical Work

- Maintaining an active role on existing project work (Project management, coordination, and/or technical role), achieving a 65% utilization target

- Developing proposals and submissions to support SIR work and other multi-disciplinary work

- Adhering to client and project deadlines by completing work in a timely manner

- Reviewing and understanding Stantec technical standard operating procedures for SIR work

- Collaborating with other SIR TLs to drive new initiatives focused on improving SIR team efficiencies

- Working with STL, Technical Discipline Leads, and Technical Area Leads to identify and manage SIR areas of technical improvement

- Ensuring team members are provided technical training on SIR related tasks and tracking their training

Leadership

- Providing guidance and leadership to up to 10 SIR team members

- Actively participating and leading SIR team lead meetings

- Liaising with other TLs and project managers to resource your team with existing project work

- Communicating with sector leads, sector representatives, and project managers to resource upcoming proposals

- Monitoring and optimizing team member utilization rates based on capacity, skills, schedule, and career goals

- Providing team members with on-going performance evaluation and targeted constructive feedback

- Working with STL to establish SIR team goals that align with the Business Centre’s yearly strategic objectives and communicating the goals to your team

- Working with team members to develop ongoing career goals and achievement plans

- Completing year end performance reviews and new year goal-setting meetings with team members

- Providing recommendations for team members career level progression and billing rate changes

- Participating in the recruitment and hiring process for new staff and transfers

- Ensuring onboarding activities of new staff are planned and tracked

- Championing a Safety-First team environment focused on leading indicator measures and prompt documentation and tracking of near misses, incidents, etc.

- Collaborating with safety personnel and leadership to support mandatory training requirements of team members

- Leading and acting as a champion for recognition and rewards programs

Your Capabilities and Credentials

- Desire and ability to lead a diverse group of individuals in a fast-paced dynamic work environment

- Dynamic leader with the ability to work collaboratively and motivate people toward a shared vision

- Creative, solutions-focused thinker with strong inter-personal and communication (written and verbal) skills

- Active and empathetic listener, experienced in navigating difficult personal and professional conversations aimed at a positive and productive outcome

- Committed and supportive delegator who is highly organized, able to multi-task and prioritize

- Confident and collaborative decision maker

- Open and honest communicator with proven ability to provide positive and constructive feedback to staff

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in Environmental Engineering, Geology, or Environmental Sciences, or relevant technologist certificate program

Minimum 5 years of relevant environmental experience.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather. Ability to lift and move items and equipment up to 50 lbs.

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.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

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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.

Primary Location: Canada | AB |
Organization: BC-1235 EnvSvcs-CA Alberta
Employee Status: Regular
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 25/11/2025 05:11:21
Req ID: 1003173

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