Stantec is a global, multi-disciplinary firm that places innovation at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. At Stantec, we thoughtfully approach every water and natural resource project we undertake—whether at the local, regional, or watershed level— and execute it with excellence across all project phases. We partner with our clients and the communities they serve to design fit-for-purpose solutions that reinforce strengths and overcome challenges. Our experts lead their fields and guide our work with scientific 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 our clients, our communities, and the industry at large.
We are currently seeking a Project Manager – Integrated Water Management Consultant to join our dynamic team in our Walnut Creek, California office.
Your Key Responsibilities
This position is external client-facing within our Pacific Water Practice, as a member of the integrated water management team. T hrough teamwork and collaboration, you will support all aspects of consulting: doing, managing, and winning work.
Do: Deliver high quality water planning and engagement consulting services.
- Lead projects or serve as project manager to draw on your water sector expertise.
- Lead and participate in multi-disciplinary teams conducting integrated water management, planning, and engagement projects throughout California and the western U.S.
- Apply your knowledge of and experience in California water resources which may include drinking water, groundwater, integrated water management, and applicable laws, policies, regulations, and guidelines.
- Coordinate with project technical leaders, project managers, engagement specialists, project engineers and scientists, clients, communities, regulatory agencies, and subcontractors.
- Champion Stantec’s project management, quality, and risk protocols.
Manage: Contribute to the development of our team of high-performing water resources professionals.
- Support professional development of our team through on-the-job training, exposure to various levels of responsibility and interaction with clients and stakeholders, and guidance on their participation in professional organizations and events.
- Grow to supervise and mentor staff to support their personal career growth.
- Reinforce Stantec’s core values: we put people first, we do what is right, we are better together, and we are driven to achieve.
Win: Support marketing and business development efforts to grow Stantec’s water resources planning and management services.
- Identify trends and leverage your knowledge of the water industry, market, and clients.
- Engage our clients in meaningful discussions about their most critical issues and translate those discussions into opportunities to deliver solutions.
- Work with our marketing and business development team to support the pursuit and capture of projects within your area of expertise.
- Assist in developing new work opportunities and building new client relationships
- Actively participate in regional and national industry groups to advance the Stantec brand and maximize exposure of Stantec’s subject matter experts.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Proven experience managing complex projects with internal teams, subconsultants, and vendors.
- Experience leading and managing complex engagement efforts related to water resources, including drinking water, groundwater, water-related infrastructure, and Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience guiding and leading engagement efforts based in participatory methods and suited to specific communities’ context.
- applicable laws/policies/regulations/guidelines.
- Working knowledge of and interest in local and state government organizational structure, budgeting / reporting, infrastructure funding, and types of services they provide.
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
- Capable of presenting/sharing project updates 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.
- Keen sense of team. Willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire team.
- Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and other business systems required.
- Strong attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.
- Willing to travel as needed. In the first year, in-state travel may be up to 10%. As you develop your skills for success and become a crucial part of multiple project teams, travel requirements may increase.
- Requires a satisfactory driving record.
Traits and Attributes of Top Performers
- Intellectual curiosity: Top performers are driven to ask why things work or don’t work currently and how we might address this—even if, or especially if, this thinking falls outside of conventional wisdom. We need bold thinkers willing to challenge assumptions and develop innovative solutions.
- Lifelong learners: This field provides ample opportunities to develop new skills and tools, and to combine left and right brain thinking to combine planning and design, and an understanding of community priorities to solve complex problems. There are little to no “routine” answers. The most successful candidates have a genuine desire to continually learn to solve our clients’ problems and improve the communities we serve.
- Analytical problem solvers: Top performers understand (or are capable of quickly learning) how varied factors, variables, and policies result in corresponding outcomes.
- Collaboration and co-creation: Successful candidates will have the ability to collaborate effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, disciplines, and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner, to achieve a common goal.
- Creativity and adaptability: Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or unique way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation.
- 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.
- 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.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in geography; environmental policy, management, or analysis; or similar fields, is required. Master’s Degree is a plus.
- 6 years total post-undergraduate working experience in project or environmental management roles.
- Knowledge of and experience water resources management, program management and design, particularly related to provision of drinking water and mitigation of source water contamination.
- Direct work experience/history with local or state government agencies.
- Elements of project management experience, including preparing and managing project scope, schedule, team activities, communication, and deliverables.
- Project Management Professional certification preferred
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.
Pay Range:
• Locations in NYC & CA (Bay Area) & NJ (RP)-$114,500.00 – $166,100.00 Annually
Primary Location: United States | CA | Walnut Creek
Organization: 1840 Water-US Pacific-Walnut Creek CA
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 12/02/2026 12:02:07
Req ID: 1004248
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