Transportation Design Manager

Come join our Transportation Roadways Team and work alongside others who share your passion to support communities through exciting and unique roadway projects.

We create great places and the connections that get people and goods moving—whether by car, bus, train, ship, ferry, plane, or their own two feet. Working within the context of the communities we serve, we provide planning, engineering, and infrastructure management services that fit the needs of our clients and improve the overall transportation experience. Join our team and help us keep communities connected.

Your Opportunity

The role of a Design Manager is to lead and deliver large, complex infrastructure projects, and help build our transportation sector business in the Lower Mainland. As a Design Manager, you will balance both technical and project management responsibilities, with a focus on leading multi-discipline teams to deliver high quality, innovative solutions. This will involve interfacing directly with clients, stakeholders, contractors and suppliers to represent the firm as our single point of contact on major projects. Your skill set allows you to effectively manage project deliverables, with a focus on budget/schedule controls, quality management, and team collaboration. In terms of execution of the work, you will be responsible for providing direction to the Stantec Team assigned to the project in preparing technical memos, reports, design drawings, technical specifications, and opinions of probable cost (Engineers’ Estimates). You will work in our local Vancouver office alongside a broad spectrum of planning and engineering colleagues from our transportation work streams\:

• Bridges
• Roadways
• Transit
• Transportation Planning & Traffic Engineering
• Surveying & Geomatics
• Project Services
• Civil and Utilities
• Rail
• Construction Services
• Ports & Marine Facilities

A Design Manager has the interpersonal skills to foster a positive, collaborative team environment and support a culture of safety. Through your broad civil or structural engineering background, you will apply your professional consulting abilities to lead major project development from RFQ and RFP preparation, to executing the project design and taking responsible charge of Stantec’s work products. Your expertise with alternative procurement delivery and understanding of the local heavy civil and transportation market will be critical assets in your success at this role.

The scope of this assignment will require a variety of office and potential field tasks, which may include planning, preliminary design, value engineering, detailed design, tender/construction support, project controls, proposal writing, and quality management. You will have the opportunity to develop innovative and sustainable design solutions working alongside an award-winning design team in order to deliver rewarding projects. An ability to maintain the big picture throughout the design process and take responsibility for meeting client expectations in a dynamic environment will help build a long-lasting career at Stantec.

Your Key Responsibilities\:

• Provide leadership for project execution teams of up to 20-40 transportation specialists, including discipline leads, junior engineers, design technologists, and CAD technicians.
• Prepare and implement project plans, including safety, quality, team resourcing, sustainability, and work methodology.
• Take responsible charge of design tasks, including production of engineering drawings, technical specifications, opinions of probable costs (engineer’s estimates), engineering reports and required applications to regulatory agencies.
• Be responsible for the review and sealing of own projects or the work of the others.
• Play a key role in the execution of design and construction of infrastructure projects.
• Facilitate the permitting process of projects, which may require meeting with clients, contractors, stakeholders, regulatory authorities, and reviewing agency personnel.
• Chair and lead project meetings, both internally and with the client, to review project and proposal milestones, confirm resource needs, review client expectations, facilitate inter-office work collaboration, and plan team building activities.
• Learn and implement project management and financial management software (Oracle Based) to meet project budget and schedule targets.
• Lead proposal development and project execution for heavy civil infrastructure projects such as the following\: roadway/highway improvements and widening, traffic intersections, retaining walls, bridges, railway grade separations, interchanges, and marine terminals.