Full-Time
Senior Environmental Consultant and Siting Regional Lead
Power Sector
Posted on 8/25/2025
Stantec
10,001+ employees
Global design and engineering consulting services
No salary listed
Deerfield Beach, FL, USA
In Person
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- Possess strong knowledge of project management and development workflows, applicable regulations, and risk profiles within the Southeast/ERCOT/MISO/SPP and other regions.
- Demonstrate self-motivation possessing excellent communication skills: verbal, business writing, electronic communications, and presentations.
- Display excellent time management skills with the ability to understand project and team goals, roles, scheduling, budgeting, and efficient use of time and resources.
- Exhibit entrepreneurial nature to grow teams and client accounts and ability to lead others to achieve group results.
- Understand state and federal regulations and adapt to client-specific requirements.
- Interpret sketches, engineering drawings, and other similar materials.
- Possess strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills and make timely decisions.
- Review and check the work of others for quality, accuracy and completeness.
- Demonstrate strong mentoring and leadership skills and desire to encourage and coach staff.
- Travel locally, regionally, and nationally as required for proposal and project needs.
- Where lawful, ability to pass a post-hire drug screen (client-dependent).
- Possess valid US driver’s license and good driving record.
- Engage directly in identifying, pursuing, and winning projects; lead and participate in proposal preparation.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance Stantec’s market position with clients, approval agencies, and industry professionals as an outstanding service provider through coordination with Stantec’s marketing team, regional sector leadership, and local technical staff.
- Engage and develop relationships with key industry partners that can help advance Stantec’s position in the marketplace.
- Participate in select, high value conferences and seminars and represent Stantec in business, community, and social situations to advance the Stantec brand and maximize exposure of Stantec’s subject matter experts.
- Create and maintain internal relationships across Stantec’s practices and geographies to promote cross-selling of services.
- Maintain a clear understanding of current and future market and business conditions, revenue and profit potential, and major clients and competitors within the Gulf Region markets with a focus on Florida.
- Support project management and provide technical support for environmental surveying, reporting, and permitting services with a focus on power sector clients in Florida and Gulf Coast Region.
- Collaborate with and manage/supervise a community of staff across various sectors, including but not limited to federal, state, and local clients, power, municipalities, and other industrial clients.
- Identify project-specific environmental design and regulatory requirements for power projects according to the Client’s risk management profile, industry precedents, existing guidance, regulations, best practices, and lessons learned, and use that information to inform smart permitting strategy.
- Establish project objectives and procedures and lead teams on proposals, planning studies, designs, due diligence and permitting projects.
- Possess strong business awareness and acumen and maintain a strong understanding of project management fundamentals: project scope, cost, schedule, and quality.
- Grow Stantec’s professional relationships with stakeholders and decision makers within key client accounts.
- Grow internal and external networks and identify additional high caliber talent across a range of professional disciplines to join the Stantec team.
- Provide mentoring and training for staff.
- Complete work in line with Stantec’s Core Values and in accordance with our Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE) procedures and Design Delivery Guidelines.
- Demonstrate active commitment to Stantec’s code of business conduct and ethics policies.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in natural sciences, environmental science, or related field from an accredited university required; master’s degree preferred.
- Experience: Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience with technical specialization and expertise in cultural resources, environmental compliance, natural resource assessments and studies, and permitting.
- 5+ years’ experience in a business development and client relationship management capacity.
Stantec is a global design and consulting firm that delivers professional services in multiple sectors, including buildings, energy and resources, environmental services, infrastructure, and water. It helps municipalities, governments, and private clients plan, design, engineer, and manage projects by offering planning, architecture, engineering, environmental, and project management services for a fee. The company differentiates itself through its global reach and multi-disciplinary teams that provide integrated solutions across many sectors, enabling end-to-end project delivery. Its goal is to help clients design and implement infrastructure, facilities, and environmental solutions that meet their objectives, operate efficiently, and serve communities over the long term.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Edmonton, Canada
Founded
1954
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Record C$9 billion Q1 2026 backlog provides about thirteen months of work.
- Water, infrastructure, and energy-transition demand supports recurring multiyear consulting wins.
- Sustainability-driven revenue reached C$5.5 billion in 2025, reinforcing climate-aligned client demand.
What critics are saying
- Megaprojects like Horseshoe Bay face live-operations delays, scope changes, and fee deferrals.
- Geospatial advisory faces commoditization from larger digital firms and specialist software competitors.
- Heavy sustainability revenue concentration exposes growth to public funding cuts and project cancellations.
What makes Stantec unique
- Stantec combines architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting across global infrastructure sectors.
- Its fee-based model suits long-duration programs requiring multidisciplinary coordination and project management.
- Recent Australian geospatial leadership expands GIS, reality capture, and digital twin advisory.
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