Senior Structural Engineer
Stantec · Calgary
The structures that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business —carried us forward instead?
Our structural practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!
You will join a multidisciplinary team delivering projects across Alberta, from focused renovations and structural assessments to major healthcare, education, research, commercial, community, industrial, water, and wastewater facilities. This role provides the opportunity to lead challenging assignments, shape technical approaches, mentor developing professionals, and build trusted client relationships within a broad, well-established design community.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Structural Engineer – Buildings to join our successful structural team in Calgary, Alberta. This is an opportunity for an accomplished buildings engineer to take a leading role in the delivery of complex new construction, renovation, rehabilitation, and assessment projects while helping shape the technical direction, client relationships, and continued growth of our Structural Engineering practice.
In this role, you will act as a senior technical advisor and design leader, taking ownership of structural solutions from concept through construction. You will lead or contribute to Quality Control reviews and Technical Independent Reviews, guide teams through complex technical decisions, and work directly with clients and project leaders to align scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality. Your portfolio may include healthcare, education, research, commercial, community, industrial, water, and wastewater facilities, as well as renovations, rehabilitation, adaptive reuse, and structural assessments.
You will have the autonomy to lead significant assignments while remaining connected to a strong network of structural specialists across Stantec. As part of a multidisciplinary Buildings team, you will bring senior design expertise, practical construction knowledge, mentorship, and sound engineering judgment to projects of varied scale and complexity. The breadth of our practice creates opportunities to work across a diverse portfolio while deepening your technical specialization, broadening your leadership influence, and helping develop the people, standards, and relationships that support a high-performing structural practice.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead relationships with owners, architects, engineering disciplines, contractors, and other project stakeholders to establish objectives, define technical requirements, and support successful project delivery.
- Lead and coordinate structural engineering work from planning and conceptual design through detailed design, tender, construction, and project closeout.
- Develop, oversee, and review structural analyses, design calculations, technical specifications, drawings, reports, and construction documents for reinforced concrete, structural steel, masonry, and wood structures.
- Apply a professional seal to engineering documents and assume professional responsibility for structural work prepared under your supervision.
- Serve as Structural Engineer of Record, discipline lead, technical advisor, or senior reviewer, as appropriate to project scope and experience.
- Lead or participate in Quality Control and Technical Independent Reviews and help maintain consistent application of Stantec's QA/QC procedures.
- Provide clear, practical direction in the assessment and resolution of complex structural design, coordination, and construction issues.
- Participate in client meetings, project planning, scope development, value analysis, risk reviews, and cost estimating.
- Work with Project Managers to develop realistic scopes, fees, work plans, schedules, resource plans, and risk-management strategies.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary design activities and structural resources across project teams and Stantec offices, matching the delivery approach to project size and complexity.
- Lead and oversee construction-phase structural services, including shop drawing reviews, responses to requests for information, site reviews, field review reports, site instructions, and corrective actions.
- Assess the installation and assembly of structural elements for general conformance with the design documents and collaborate with contractors and project teams to resolve site issues.
- Mentor and coach intermediate and junior professionals through project assignments, design reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing activities.
- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with clients and collaborators and contribute to proposals, interviews, and strategic business-development initiatives.
- Help advance structural standards, specifications, design tools, lessons learned, and technical practices across the team.
Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec.
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