Senior Process Engineer

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. 

Your Opportunity

Stantec's growing Industrial Water practice is seeking a highly motivated Senior Process Engineer with industrial process, application, and operations experience to join our team in our Houston, TX office. The candidate will support project proposal and delivery processes throughout the US and Canada with Focus on the US South Region within the following markets: Manufacturing, Upstream and Downstream Oil and Gas, Chemical Processing Industry, Power, Food and Beverage, Advanced Manufacturing, Datacenters, Mining, and Pharma.

The role of the Senior Process Engineer is to productively network with a wide array of engineering, environmental, water, and wastewater professionals on both technical project delivery and related business development initiatives, as well as lead process evaluation and design efforts across all phases of the project lifecycle.

Candidate should be able to evaluate, select, specify, and engineer systems or products for a project, and will perform or supervise and review a variety of tasks which may include calculations, design sketches and concepts, report preparation and field work.

Projects assigned may be broad, varied, and diverse in scope. You will analyze proposed projects to meet client needs and standards by ensuring safety, reliability, resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Business development/application activities range from intentional listening to client needs and identifying related solution opportunities to high level business strategies and implementation planning. Senior Process Engineers routinely assist in the development of detailed proposals for a wide variety of project settings.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Perform business development/application tasks and collaborate with staff to increase project wins and develop long lasting client relationships. Routine tasks include:
  • Participate in business line teams to manage and develop proposals.
  • client facing for business development contact, meetings, project scoping and presentations.
  • scope of work development and labor hours estimates
  • division of responsibility (DOR) matrices
  • collaboration with multiple business lines to develop opportunities.
  • quality reviews
  • design basis documents
  • engineering calculations including mass and energy balances.
  • review of regulatory requirements
  • engineering documents, specifications, and drawings
  • review and evaluation of technology-based solutions
  • engineering reports
  • feasibility studies
  • Development of opinions of probable cost (OPC) for both capital costs and operations & maintenance (O&M) costs
  • presentations to clients, regulatory agencies and/or project stakeholders
  • quality reviews
• Perform complex engineering design tasks on assigned water, power and industrial process and wastewater-related projects through collaboration with a wide range of technical disciplines. Routine technical tasks include:
• Engage in the development of a design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
• Assist project managers with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing, and schedule.
• Lead others in developing and coordination of project construction specifications.
• Conduct and/or coordinate quality assurance and quality control on assigned projects and facilitates independent technical review projects by others.
• Reviews contractor/vendor submittals for adherence to Contract Documents and industry standards.
• Involved in the permitting process of projects, which may require meeting with clients, contractors, interested stakeholder parties, reviewing agency personnel.
• Coordinates with the regulatory review to seek final approval.
• Assists in the development and updates of project design standards and guidelines; prepares abstracts and technical papers.
• Mentor and supervise staff and support the development of a high-performing project teams.
• Assist with business development pursuits including proposal preparation and participation in interviews.