Posted 3 days ago
Senior Water Resources Engineer
@ Stantec
Ottawa, ON · Toronto, ON · Stoney Creek, ON · Windsor, ON · Waterloo, ON +1
Overview
Stantec is hiring a senior Professional Engineer to lead complex hydraulic and hydrologic modelling for wastewater, stormwater, combined sewer and water distribution systems across Canada and North America. The role is hands-on technical leadership: building and reviewing models, setting modelling standards, mentoring junior and intermediate modellers, and contributing to proposals. Hybrid work is available and the posting requires a P.Eng. with at least 10 years of experience, mostly in hydraulic and hydrologic modelling.
Responsibilities:
- Lead complex hydraulic and hydrologic modelling assignments for urban water systems
- Develop, calibrate, validate and review models
- Establish modelling standards and quality review
- Mentor junior and intermediate modellers
- Contribute senior input to proposals and scopes
Requirements summary:
- P.Eng. or eligibility for interprovincial mobility
- Bachelor's degree in civil, water resources or environmental engineering
- Minimum 10 years of experience, mostly in hydraulic and hydrologic modelling
- Advanced experience with InfoWorks ICM, PCSWMM, WaterGEMS or WaterCAD
- Demonstrated mentoring and technical review experience
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-04
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-04
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-04
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Engineering |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | P.Eng. |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | civil engineering, water resources engineering, environmental engineering |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Retirement plan, Tuition support, Performance bonus, Stock or equity, Wellness |
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Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before. We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more. Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. 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 are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible. Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN. Recruitment fraud notice: All legitimate Stantec career opportunities are posted exclusively at www.stantec.jobs and candidate applications and employment offers are managed through our secure applicant tracking system. Stantec will only contact candidates using official email addresses ending in @stantec.com and does not send job offers as email attachments. Stantec never requests application fees and money transfers in the recruitment process or banking information via email. We also do not send payments for the purchase of office supplies or equipment. Any communication offering employment outside of our official recruitment process should be considered fraudulent.
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Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before. We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes…
| Field | Value |
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| Industry | Business Consulting and Services |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Specialties | consultingplanningarchitectureengineeringenvironmentalinterior designlandscapesurveyingand project management |
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Your Opportunity
We are seeking a senior Professional Engineer who has built the majority of their career around hydraulic and hydrologic modelling and is motivated by developing both high-quality models and capable modellers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who wants to remain actively involved in complex modelling while establishing sound approaches, reviewing technical work, sharing practical knowledge, and mentoring junior and intermediate staff. The successful candidate will bring deep experience in wastewater and stormwater collection systems, potable water distribution systems, or a combination of these areas.
Our team collaborates on projects across Canada and North America for municipal, regional, and other public- and private-sector clients. As part of the Urban Water Resources Water Delivery Team, you will serve as a senior technical resource for sanitary, stormwater, combined sewer, drainage, and water distribution modelling. You will work alongside project managers and discipline leads, but your primary focus will be technical excellence: solving difficult modelling problems, strengthening modelling practices, reviewing work, teaching others, and helping teams apply models with sound engineering judgement. You will also provide senior technical input to proposals, scopes, work plans, level-of-effort estimates, and client discussions.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior technical lead for hydraulic and hydrologic modelling assignments involving wastewater, stormwater, combined sewer, drainage, and potable water systems.
- Remain actively involved in developing, calibrating, validating, troubleshooting, maintaining, and applying complex hydraulic models.
- Establish fit-for-purpose modelling approaches, assumptions, workflows, documentation standards, and quality expectations.
- Provide senior technical review and quality assurance of model inputs, calibration, validation, scenarios, outputs, limitations, and conclusions.
- Guide the use of monitoring, GIS, SCADA, rainfall, operational, and other system data to build, calibrate, and validate models.
- Lead the technical assessment of system capacity, performance, level of service, wet-weather response, flood risk, servicing constraints, and operational issues.
- Develop and evaluate future growth, climate, operational, infrastructure, and remedial scenarios to support master planning, servicing studies, capital planning, and system optimization.
- Interpret model results, identify uncertainty and limitations, and translate complex findings into practical recommendations for clients and project teams.
- Mentor junior and intermediate modellers through hands-on coaching, technical review, structured feedback, and shared problem solving.
- Develop and deliver modelling guidance, examples, training materials, workshops, and lessons learned that strengthen consistent practices across the team.
- Help staff develop sound engineering judgement, including understanding model purpose, data quality, calibration, sensitivity, uncertainty, and appropriate interpretation rather than relying only on software outputs.
- Review and contribute senior technical input to proposals, scopes, work plans, methodologies, assumptions, level-of-effort estimates, schedules, and fee estimates for modelling assignments.
- Participate in client discussions, technical presentations, and project workshops as a trusted modelling specialist.
- Collaborate with project managers, discipline leads, GIS and data specialists, and delivery teams to support high-quality work while maintaining a primary focus on technical leadership rather than overall project management.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Advanced understanding of hydraulic and hydrologic principles as they apply to urban drainage, collection, and/or water distribution systems.
- Extensive hands-on experience developing, calibrating, validating, troubleshooting, reviewing, and applying hydraulic models to complex infrastructure questions.
- Advanced experience with at least one major modelling platform, such as InfoWorks ICM, PCSWMM, InfoSWMM, WaterGEMS, or WaterCAD. Experience with MIKE+, InfoWater, or comparable platforms is also valued.
- Demonstrated ability to independently define modelling approaches, assess fitness for purpose, identify technical risks, and resolve complex model development and application issues.
- Strong experience managing, analyzing, and interpreting large datasets, including flow, level, rainfall, SCADA, operational, and spatial data.
- Experience using GIS to support model development, results interpretation, mapping, and communication. AutoCAD experience is an asset.
- Demonstrated experience reviewing the technical work of others and providing clear, constructive, and actionable feedback.
- Demonstrated ability and interest in mentoring, teaching, and developing junior and intermediate modellers.
- Ability to explain modelling concepts, limitations, and results clearly to staff, clients, and technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience preparing and reviewing technical reports, memoranda, model documentation, presentations, and recommendations.
- Experience providing senior technical contributions to proposals, scopes, methodologies, work plans, level-of-effort estimates, budgets, and schedules.
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation, verbal, and written communication skills, with a collaborative and practical approach to technical leadership.
- Proficiency with common Microsoft 365 applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.
- Complementary skill sets in applying optimization routines, scripting, automation tools, or AI agents to improve individual productivity and project efficiency, as well as climate change, asset management, river or coastal engineering, data visualization, or database management, are assets.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in civil, water resources, environmental, or a related engineering discipline.
- Registered as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in a Canadian province, or eligible for registration through interprovincial mobility.
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant consulting, municipal, or utility experience, with the majority of that experience focused on hydraulic and hydrologic modelling.
- A record of progressively responsible technical work that includes leading complex modelling assignments, reviewing the work of others, mentoring staff, and contributing to technical scopes and proposals.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining seated for long periods of time. Hybrid work arrangement available.
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. At Stantec, we live our corporate values every day.
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.
Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.
Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.
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