Senior Mechanical Engineer - Team Lead

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.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a highly motivated Senior Mechanical Engineer / Team Leader to join our growing, multidisciplinary Buildings team.

If you are an experienced leader, strong communicator, and skilled problem-solver with a high level of attention to detail, we have an opportunity for you to make an impact on a team committed to delivering innovative, high-quality building designs.

In this role, you will draw on your strong technical knowledge, leadership capabilities, and extensive industry experience to lead the mechanical engineering team and deliver projects of varying scales and complexity. You will serve as both a technical leader and people manager while collaborating closely with multidisciplinary design teams, clients, contractors, and other project stakeholders.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the Mechanical Engineering Team Lead, managing team workload, project assignments, staffing needs, and overall resource planning.

• Conduct staff performance reviews and actively support employee career development and professional growth.

• Mentor and develop junior and intermediate design staff through project work, technical guidance, training, and coaching.

• Effectively delegate work to engineering and production support staff.

• Develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, and design approaches for projects of varying sizes and complexity.

• Work within established project budgets and schedules to help project teams achieve financial, quality, and delivery objectives.

• Serve as the mechanical engineer and technical design expert on assigned projects.

• Perform field investigations and apply advanced mechanical engineering knowledge to develop solutions to complex engineering challenges.

• Prepare and support project deliverables including basis-of-design narratives, engineering calculations, cost estimates, drawing documentation, system designs, and technical specifications.

• Lead the design and selection of HVAC, plumbing, and other mechanical building systems.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary design teams, clients, building officials, contractors, manufacturers, and other project stakeholders.

• Communicate with manufacturers and contractors to resolve technical challenges and develop practical, constructible solutions.

• Perform construction site observation visits and review and respond to project submittals, RFIs, and other construction-phase documentation.

• Develop contract documents that meet applicable codes, client requirements, project standards, and Stantec quality assurance requirements.

• Identify and resolve design conflicts and technical questions while providing recommendations that improve project outcomes.

• Serve as a quality control reviewer and participate in project peer reviews.

• Support the continued growth, technical excellence, and operational performance of the mechanical engineering team.

• Travel occasionally as required, approximately 10%-20%.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Demonstrated experience building, leading, mentoring, and managing engineering teams.

• Strong technical knowledge of HVAC and building mechanical systems, equipment, materials, means and methods, and industry standards.

• Working knowledge and application of applicable mechanical and plumbing codes, energy codes, ASHRAE standards, and other relevant building codes and standards.

• Strong understanding of all phases of project design and document production, including the relationship between drawings, specifications, calculations, and construction documents.

• Ability to review the work of others for technical accuracy, completeness, coordination, and quality.

• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities while meeting project budgets and schedules.

• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary project team environment.

• Strong analytical, creative, and critical-thinking abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong client-facing and interpersonal skills.

• Presentation and interview experience is preferred.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Revit, AutoCAD, and one or more HVAC load calculation software platforms.

• Experience with large and complex building projects required. Resumes should be tailored to demonstrate such including project, total square footage, and systems completed.

• Experience with mission critical, advanced manufacturing, higher education, and/or healthcare facilities is considered beneficial.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from an accredited engineering program.

• Professional Engineer (P.Eng) licensure is Alberta required. License in additional provinces is considered an asset.

• Minimum of 12 years of professional building mechanical engineering experience, including experience delivering large and/or technically complex projects.

• Previous experience in a technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management role is strongly 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.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.