Principal Consultant - Stormwater - ( 240002HX )

Description

Many of the world’s top engineers and scientists come together in our Water business because they view a community’s interaction with water a bit differently—as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, we are delivering sustainable solutions to make sure water is where it should be and available when needed. Our experts guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect this precious resource for future generations. By 2025 we’re hiring 2,000 people (like you) to join our team. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

Management and Technology Consulting (MTC) is Stantec’s industry leading management consulting team, recognized in providing asset and organizational performance, financial, economic, funding, planning, as well as business and operational technology consulting services to communities and utilities across North America. We partner with our clients to tackle complex problems and design fit-for-purpose solutions that address their unique needs. Our team is comprised of experts in their fields that guide our work with analytical rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. We’re a place where you can apply your passion and collaborate with top talent on work that’s critical to ensuring sustainable quality of life services in communities of all shapes and sizes. We are seeking a candidate to lead our stormwater financial management practice providing leadership, delivery of strategic projects, and to drive growth of our stormwater financial management service offerings across North America.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Engage with clients and potential clients to understand their needs and problems and apply MTC solutions, solution history, and personal solution history to help grow Stantec’s stormwater practice.

• Lead and engage in the delivery of financial and management projects, ensuring delivery of high-quality services on time and within budget, focused on, but not necessarily limited to, stormwater projects.

• Work closely with regional and national leadership to identify and create/incubate opportunities for stormwater management services across the region and nationally.

• Support business development for the MTC team and support business development in other geographies. Lead business development strategies/activities for stormwater utility development, stormwater fee structure design, stormwater utility database, credit programs, customer portals, and other related services.

• Recruit, mentor, train, develop, and deploy technical talent.

• Work closely with MTC team to develop innovative offerings for comprehensive suite of stormwater management offerings including integration of financial, management, GIS, customer portals and billing management.

• Work dynamically with project teams to identify best-fit solutions to funding of stormwater infrastructure, and operational issues, that involve elevated risk/complexity.

• Engage in the strategic planning of the MTC team, focused on growth of stormwater practice.

• Maintain and grow client relationships and lead and/or engage in responses to client requests, RFQs, and RFPs.

• Maintain knowledge of stormwater operational and technology industry trends.

• Serve as an independent reviewer of analysis prepared by peers or junior staff to ensure technical accuracy and appropriateness of methods and tools used and solutions evaluated.

• Meet performance goals and objectives as assigned, with respect to client-specific demands, stated delivery milestones, quality standards, project management framework, mentoring of junior staff, and all required training activities.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Demonstrated technical proficiency in stormwater and other utility financial and management programs as well as related areas, such as strategic planning, organizational performance, and digital solutions.

• Strong network of active client contacts and relationships.

• Ability to manage and deliver complex assignments that require the application of broad knowledge with a high degree of initiative and independence.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Teams. Proficiency with Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required.

• Experience with additional data analysis tools is required, including but not limited to Access, Power BI/Tableau, GIS, SQL, Python, R, etc.

• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.

• Capable of presenting/sharing analyses in an interactive work setting while being able to adjust in a live setting.

• Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team on multiple projects simultaneously.

• Ability to recommend and implement changes to policies and establish procedures. Provides input to the annual performance process and career development goals of team members.

• Strong attention to details, as MTC deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.

• Experience and ability to work across disciplines.

Traits and Attributes of Top Performers:

• Advisory business development: Successful candidates will take the initiative to research and approach new clients and markets to drive growth. They will actively participate in and support sales and account management processes for existing and new clients.

• Collaboration and co-creation; Successful candidates will have the ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, disciplines and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner, to achieve a common goal.

• Organizational analysis mindset: Top performers will understand the client organizational system, present issues and group dynamics, determine requirements, apply digital fluency in the compilation of data and findings, conducting analyses, and make recommendations for initiatives and mandates.

• Strategic and systematic thinking; Top performers will be able to synthesize different sides of an issue by examining a range of options and outcomes, considering the interconnectedness of elements as parts of a whole system, and building intellectual frameworks to guide decisions, solve problems, support innovation and inform analysis and action.

• Consulting and advising: Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough and transformation relevant to the organizational environment.

• Creativity and adaptability; Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation.

• Entrepreneurial mindset; Strong candidates will both seek and thrive on all opportunities and risks; Top performers will leverage tenacity and optimism to innovate, effect change, break orthodoxies and create new value for clients.

• Sincere desire to please our clients: Top performers seem to have an innate drive, beyond personal gain, for ensuring that our clients are pleased with our performance and our deliverables, and they realize that providing rigorous, error-free, and unbiased advisory services is a critical step in ensuring the client’s long-term sustainability. Top performers draw on this deeper motivation, as it takes time and effort to drive change with our clients.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, mathematics, finance, economics, statistics, data science, engineering, accounting, or related fields are required. Master’s Degree is a plus.

• 15 plus years professional experience in management consulting and/or with local government agencies related to water resources (with focus on stormwater but including water, wastewater, reclaimed water), economics, pricing, infrastructure funding, financial analysis and working for local government agencies in these areas.

Typical office environment working with computers.

Willing to travel as needed; mostly regional. Travel may be up to 25%. Valid driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record are required.

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.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees 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-Florida-Tampa

Organization : BC-2248 Water-US M&T Consulting

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Manager

Travel : Yes, 25 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Jun 26, 2024, 7:12:46 AM

Req ID: 240002HX

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