Water Resources Engineer

2 weeks ago


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Stantec Full time

Strong communities don't just happen—they're built. They're creatively imagined, collaboratively planned, and readied to face tomorrow with optimism. We're driving the future of Community Development. Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. We're a place where you can apply your passion—and find endless opportunities to help make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable.

Your Opportunity

Stantec's River Services group provides clients with professional services in a wide range of disciplines including stream restoration, geomorphological assessment, watershed studies, environmental assessments, and floodplain analysis. Stantec provides complete surface water resources planning and engineering services from the conceptual study phase through design, construction, and monitoring. Our integrated teams allow us to incorporate related disciplines such as civil engineering, landscape architecture, aquatic ecology, terrestrial ecology, wetland science, soil science, and hydrogeology to provide a more thorough understanding of a project and/or a more comprehensive design.  Stantec's River Services group has an excellent reputation for mentoring junior staff and providing its clients with high quality services. 

An opportunity exists in our Waterloo, ON office (hybrid work arrangements will also be considered) for a talented and enthusiastic team member with a keen interest in the natural sciences and stream restoration to join our team and advance their career. This position would include the opportunity to participate in the assessment, design and construction monitoring of stream restoration projects, and will involve working with multi-disciplinary teams for a variety of existing and new clients. 

Your Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate, you will use your project management and technical abilities to plan and carry out projects in a dynamic team setting and you will be able to use your communication skills to explain complex issues and to develop new clients and project assignments.  You will report directly to the Stream Restoration Team Lead.  Other responsibilities include:

  • Undertaking modeling and design tasks associated with River Services works in support of a wide variety of projects in both the private and public sectors.
  • Coordinating with project managers, designers, other technical staff and/or multidisciplinary team members to ensure that the projects' needs are met in a timely and effective manner;
  • Participating in detailed field and office studies and design tasks associated with stream restoration projects;
  • Performs field work as required, including the collection of geomorphological field data, post-construction monitoring, environmental sampling, etc. 
  • Coordinating design and construction drawings;
  • Writing reports and design briefs to document analyses;
  • Meeting with regulatory agencies and clients to address project-specific stream restoration issues;
  • Taking responsibility for the quality of your written, technical and graphic work;
  • Managing the technical and financial aspects of stream restoration projects;
  • Preparing/participating in proposals for new projects;
  • Providing construction administration and observation services


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