Substation Project Engineering Team Lead

Stantec · Vancouver

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Your Opportunity

Stantec’s Energy team in western Canada is currently offering exciting opportunities for Engineers to work on a variety of utilities substation projects throughout Western Canada. The team is looking to fill the role of Substation Project Engineering Team Lead. This leadership role, reporting to the Substation Engineering Manager, will lead a team of Project Engineers and subcontractors. This technical leadership role is ideal for someone with a passion for building strong teams and executing exciting work.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Ensure client expectations related to project scope are clearly understood, met, and exceeded.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to team members; foster initiative, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Champion a strong safety culture by promoting safe work practices and ensuring compliance with all safety regulations.
• Provide technical leadership as a subject matter expert, offering professional engineering advice within and beyond the department.
• Prepare and review technical reports, presentations, standards, specifications, and engineering documentation.
• Project Leadership: Lead and coordinate multi-discipline design teams for medium to large-scale projects, ensuring integration across structural, mechanical, civil, and electrical domains.
• Technical Problem Solving: Resolve highly technical and unusual design or field engineering issues by conducting independent studies and exercising expert judgment.
• Management Support: Assist project and operations management in meeting safety, cost, quality, and time objectives. This includes proposing plan changes, reviewing contractor payment requests, and preparing detailed progress reports.
• Standards & Compliance: Contribute to the development of technical standards and ensure all engineering designs support successful, safe operations within the network.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and technical advice to other emerging engineering professionals.

At Stantec, we know the work we do matters. From decarbonizing mines to modernizing electric grids and building the infrastructure that fuels communities, we’re powering the world. Our clients come to us with their biggest, most complex challenges because that’s where we thrive. And we’re looking for problem solvers, high achievers, and visionaries to help us.

Join us for a chance to grow professionally at one of the world’s top design firms while building our clean energy future.

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