Your Opportunity
Communities everywhere share the need for clean water, and the challenges are getting more complex every day. Stantec's US Mountain West Water team is hiring a Senior Civil Engineer to lead the hydraulic analysis, modeling, and planning of large-scale conveyance and pumping infrastructure across the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West.
You will step into a high-impact technical leadership role on regional water supply programs: large-diameter transmission mains, storage tanks and reservoirs, high-capacity pump and lift stations, river crossings, and corridor and site alternatives analyses that shape multi-hundred-million-dollar capital programs. You will partner directly with our Regional Delivery Leadership and our most strategic municipal and regional clients. Grow with us, H2O+U.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Serve as Planning Task Lead, Hydraulics Lead, or Engineer of Record on complex water, wastewater, and stormwater conveyance programs.
- Lead alternatives analyses for transmission corridors and storage tank sites, including multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) screening, weighting frameworks, and Board-ready alternatives recommendations.
- Lead sequencing and resilience evaluations: hydraulic and operational performance across demand milestones, single-point-of-failure inventory, n-1 redundancy, and phased capacity build-out strategies.
- Direct hydraulic modeling (steady-state, extended-period, transient/surge), including WaterCAD model maintenance, scenario development, and flow allocation planning across member agencies.
- Integrate hydraulic, GIS, cost, and SME evaluation results into clear technical memoranda, Board presentations, and program decision support tools.
- Provide technical leadership and QA/QC across the team; mentor developing engineers and modelers.
- Build and grow trusted client relationships; lead pursuits, proposals, and client interviews.
- Represent Stantec in professional organizations and at industry conferences (AWWA, WEF, PNWS-AWWA, PNCWA).
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Deep expertise in conveyance design: large-diameter transmission and force mains, sanitary collection (open channel hydraulics, diurnal patterns, flow diversion), pipe rehabilitation (CIPP, pipe bursting, sliplining), and trenchless construction (HDD, microtunneling, auger boring).
- Proven leadership of pump stations, lift stations, reservoirs, storage tanks, and wet weather storage.
- Demonstrated experience leading corridor and site alternatives analyses, MCDM screening, and Board-level alternatives recommendations on regional water supply or transmission programs.
- Strong proficiency with hydraulic and design software (WaterCAD, InfoWater, InfoWorks ICM, PCSWMM, EPANET, EPA SWMM, HEC-RAS, AutoCAD Civil 3D, ArcGIS), plus transient analysis.
- Experience coordinating hydraulic modeling outputs with GIS layers, cost frameworks, and SME evaluation results to inform planning-level decisions.
- Established client relationships in the Pacific Northwest or Mountain West strongly preferred.
- Track record of winning and delivering pursuits as a technical lead or Engineer of Record.
- Strong communicator and team leader; skilled at building consensus and leading through complexity.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering required; Master's preferred.
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in water/wastewater conveyance planning, design, and hydraulic modeling, with senior technical leadership.
- Washington PE license required; additional Mountain West state PEs preferred.
Why Stantec
We put people first and recognize we are better together. Join a team that delivers transformational water infrastructure for the communities we call home.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties may be assigned at any time.
Pay Range:
• Locations in WA, DC & Various CA, MA, VA Areas-$178,400.00 - $276,600.00 Annually
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) 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 | WA | Bellevue
Organization: BC-2002 Water-US Northwest
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 08/07/2026 06:07:42
Req ID: 1006565
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