Environmental Project Manager Jobs in Tulsa, OK (NOW HIRING)

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Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking an Environmental Project Manager who will be instrumental in expanding our Power industry footprint throughout the Gulf Coast Region.
In this role, you will lead and guide projects and multidisciplinary teams, overseeing the full project life cycle, from early pursuit and proposal development through execution and delivery.
Stantec's Power team delivers comprehensive support across transmission and distribution, routing and siting, geotechnical engineering, as well as environmental assessment, permitting, and monitoring.
This position has remote working flexibility with candidates preferably residing in Texas or Oklahoma.
Your Key Responsibilities

• This position will support project management and provide technical support for routing and siting, environmental surveying, reporting, and permitting services with a focus on power sector clients in Texas and Gulf Coast Region.
• Collaborate with and manage a community of staff across various sectors, including but not limited to federal, state, and local clients, power, municipalities, and other industrial clients.
• Identify project-specific environmental design and regulatory requirements for power projects according to the Client's risk management profile, industry precedents, existing guidance, regulations, best practices, and lessons learned, and use that information to inform smart permitting strategy.
• Establish project objectives and procedures and lead teams on proposals, planning studies, designs, due diligence and permitting projects.
• Possess good business awareness and acumen and maintain a strong understanding of project management fundamentals: project scope, cost, schedule, and quality.
• Grow Stantec's professional relationships with stakeholders and decision makers within key client accounts.
• Grow internal and external networks and identify additional high caliber talent across a range of professional disciplines to join the Stantec team.
• Provide mentoring and training for staff.
• Complete work in line with Stantec's Core Values and in accordance with our Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE) procedures and Design Delivery Guidelines.
• Demonstrate active commitment to Stantec's code of business conduct and ethics policies.
• Engage and develop relationships with key industry partners that can help advance Stantec's position in the marketplace.
• Create and maintain internal relationships across Stantec's practices and geographies to promote cross-selling of services.
• Maintain a clear understanding of current and future market and business conditions, revenue and profit potential, and major clients and competitors within the Gulf Region markets with a focus on Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Possess strong knowledge of project management and development workflows, applicable regulations, and risk profiles within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)/Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)/ Southwest Power Pool (SPP) region.
• Established track record of building and sustaining strategic relationships that advance organizational positioning and open new avenues for collaboration.
• Ability to foster internal collaboration across practices and geographies to drive cross selling and integrated service delivery.
• Strong understanding of regional market dynamics, competitive landscapes, and revenue potential, particularly within Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
• Deep knowledge of environmental design and regulatory requirements for Power Delivery projects, with the ability to translate risk profiles, industry precedents, and regulatory guidance into effective permitting strategies.
• Skilled in establishing project objectives, developing procedures, and guiding teams through planning studies, design efforts, due diligence, and permitting activities.
• Where lawful, ability to pass a post-hire drug screen (client-dependent).

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in natural sciences, environmental science, or related field from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience with technical specialization and expertise in environmental compliance, natural resource assessments and studies, and permitting.
• 5+ years' experience in a project management and/or client relationship management capacity.

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.
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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Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, 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 family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.
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: United States | TX | Houston
Other Locations: United States | OK | Tulsa
Organization: BC-2353 EnvSvcs-US Gulf West
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 29/05/2026 04:05:06
Req ID: 1006078
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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.