Project Manager, Management Consulting

Project Manager, Management Consulting - ( 250001GG )

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 are 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 help support the commercial management and independent review of our portfolio of projects and to selectively manage individual projects. This role will be on a part-time basis initially, with the potential to scale and grow consistent with MTC.

Your Key Responsibilities

This position is an internal and external facing position with our Management Consulting Team that is intentionally structured to provide project portfolio support and/or individual project management.

As a Project Manager within the Management Consulting Team, you will be supporting asset, organizational, financial, infrastructure funding, economic, policy, regulatory, and technology consulting services to local governments and utilities in North America.

The Successful Candidate Will

• Support commercial project management across the portfolio of projects, including revenue recognition and cost forecasting/estimates to complete for many individual projects
• Perform project setups and baselining and assist in identifying and preparing change orders
• Perform independent reviews of project proposals and workplans, including the review of commercial terms, calculation of project margins, and consideration of risk.
• Address financial reporting requests from other project managers or corporate finance team
• Perform deputy project management activities (billing, forecasting, reporting, insurance, sub agreements, etc.) for many projects
• Identify project audit lists, coordinating with the audit scheduler, and performing PM framework compliance audits
• Potentially assist with Utilitiwise data management (our database of client financial information)
• Serve as a primary member of multiple teams at client meetings, including interactive use of analytical tools and facilitating workshops; as well as direct and train junior staff in these areas.
• In some cases, serve as the client account manager and project manager for client engagements, ensuring delivery of high-quality services on time and within budget.
• Lead the project team in interactive meetings with our clients to identify and analyze issues affecting their organizations and key stakeholders.
• Maintain and grow client relationships and lead business development efforts in responding to client requests, RFQs, and RFPs.
• Serve as an independent reviewer of analysis prepared by peers or junior staff to ensure technical accuracy and appropriateness of methods and tools being utilized as well as solutions being evaluated.
• Meet performance goals and objectives as assigned, with respect to MTC business metrics for delivery excellence, 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

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of and interest in local government organizational structure, budgeting / reporting, infrastructure funding, and types of services they provide is required.
• Working knowledge and understanding of corporate accounting and a background in analyzing project management from a commercial perspective. Past experience with an engineering company or management consultancy is preferred.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
• Capable of presenting/sharing analyses in an interactive work setting while being able to make adjustments 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.
• Management experience and the ability to directly manage staff and to manage large and diverse project teams to deliver client projects.
• Strong sense of Team. Always willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire Team.
• Strong attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.
• Willing to travel as needed. Travel may be initially 5-10%, potentially growing up to 15%. As you develop your skills for success and become a crucial part of multiple project teams across a broad geography, travel requirements could 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 new solutions.
• Lifelong learners : This field provides ample opportunities to develop new skills and tools, and to combine left and right brain thinking to combine math, modeling, and an understanding of public perception 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 different factors, variables, and policies result in corresponding financial impacts. They understand how to make appropriate simplifying assumptions and how to model complex systems accurately.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 10 years total post-undergraduate working experience in accounting, finance, and/or working for local government agencies in these areas:
• Knowledge of and experience with project management frameworks, accounting, and commercial terms
• Direct work experience/history with engineering companies or consultancies
• Elements of project management experience, including preparing and managing project scope, schedule, team activities, communication, and deliverables.
  
  

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.

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Salary Range(s)

• $133,300 - $200,000 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in CO, HI, MD and IL
  
  

The final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.

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-Colorado-Denver

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

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Apr 11, 2025, 12:30:49 PM

Req ID: 250001GG

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