The Opportunity

Stantec is working on many of the world's largest, complex and most exciting dams and hydro projects. Due to our ongoing success we are rapidly growing and seek an experienced Project Manager to join our dynamic team, working on the design and development of cutting-edge dams, hydropower and pumped storage hydro solutions. This role can be based anywhere in the UK.

It is a great opportunity to join a growing multi disciplinary team involved in projects as varied and different as Coire Glas in Scotland, Koysha in Ethiopia, and Dinorwig in Wales, as well as supporting many of the UK water companies with inspections, remediation and development of new dams and reservoirs.

We have developed a strong reputation within the sector as a leading, progressive and forward-thinking consultancy, focused on delivering high quality outputs to ensure the client achieves their outcomes and business benefits. Read more about our work at; Stantec Hydropower & Dams

We are looking for a PM who can lead these, often large, complex and multi-disciplinary projects, often involving significant risk and the need to work with multiple stakeholders.

Your role will include traditional advisory, Owner's Engineer, client facing concept design, contractor facing detailed design, remediation and troubleshooting, installation support and Lender's engineer / insurance / due diligence support. You will proactively lead the team to successfully deliver our objectives on time, to budget and to the appropriate quality.

This is an exciting opportunity for a project manager who is passionate about sustainable energy and eager to make a significant impact in the industry.

About You

You will be degree qualified and hold or be working towards an appropriate Project Management qualification such as APM's PMQ / ChPP or PMI's PMP.

You will have manage large hydropower projects, or have demonstrable experience leading major complex water and/or energy sector projects (fees in excess of £500k on projects with a construction value well in excess of £10m).

You will be hands-on and foster great team dynamics and working relationships and be emotionally intelligent when it comes to your own, your teams and your clients' feelings, concerns and wellbeing.

You will bring extensive demonstrable core project management technical skills such as cost, schedule, risk, stakeholder, resource, governance management.

Experience working within a contractor organisation or on the consultancy side of large Design and Build projects would be advantageous but is not essential.

Most importantly, you will embody and support our values of client focus, designing with community in mind, collaboration and service excellence.

Why Join us?

The friendly and collaborative culture at Stantec is something we are proud of and we have many other reasons for you to be excited about joining us. We offer a competitive salary, a great pension scheme, free private medical insurance, hybrid and flexible working arrangements, industry leading training, great projects, excellent career development prospects and lots more!

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today's challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

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.