Geotechnical North American Discipline Leader

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.  Grow with us, H2O+U.

North American Discipline Leaders (NADLs) hold a unique position in our water group, their role is to guide our engineering disciplines in the advancement of skills, innovation, and quality as it relates to the delivery of our work. They facilitate our communities of global and national level engineering discipline leads ensuring workflows leverage the right level of expertise and always mitigate risk. The management and governance of engineering technical data and standards is at the core of the role, always fostering a culture of quality.

• The NADLs report to either the US or Canadian Delivery Center Leaders or the US Delivery Center BCOLs.

The geotechnical discipline supports the Water Sector (practice and delivery) as well as other business lines by providing technical leadership and specialized project delivery services related to the discipline.

Our geotechnical engineering discipline is focused on solving design, construction, and rehabilitation issues impacting the communities where we work and live. By pairing cutting-edge site investigation technology with tried-and-true experience, we bring unparalleled expertise to the entire geotechnical spectrum—from planning, investigation, and design to execution and quality control. ​​​​​​​

Our North American Geotechnical Discipline Leaders collaborate across technical disciplines to link our network of practitioners across Water. 

 

YOUR RESPONSIBILITES:

The NADLs set the vision for their engineering groups and work collaboratively with the BC and Regional Discipline Leads in identifying opportunities, allocating the right resources, and mapping teams to appropriate skills and advancement.

The NADL’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to;

 

Quality & Innovation:

• Set and provide oversight of discipline-specific professional standards and quality assurance practices for deliverable management.
• Monitor compliance with our independent and peer reviewer frameworks to ensure the discipline-specific resources are allocated early on in pursuit and project scoping and hold appropriate levels of expertise.
• Control, standardize, and advance the suite of applications used by the discipline (e.g., design tools, software applications). 
• Coordinate advancement and learning around the future-proofing of the engineering teams as they pursue Digital (BIM/digital twin enabled) Delivery.
• Identify and champion opportunities for innovation within the practice, either through adopting commercially available products or developing solutions in collaboration with Stantec’s Innovation Office.
• Review, approve, and drive compliance with standard processes for delivering engineering design work. Expected to initiate development of direct discipline staff to produce standard processes. 
• Identify opportunities to differentiate the group through showcasing advancement.
• Control the collation of Intellectual Property data and the implementation of a comprehensive knowledge sharing platform. 
• Maintain best practice guides and retain overall responsibility for development of centralized resources for standards (guide specifications and standard details) as they apply to the discipline-specific engineering group.

Project Management & Execution:

• Execute projects as either a discipline lead and/or Project Technical Lead, and/or in a senior technical capacity on significant projects.
• Serve as a discipline Subject Matter Expert. 
• Collaborate with Business Center Design Leads to promote work sharing and the import and export of personnel as required to successfully deliver projects throughout the business.
• Ensure participation in project risk scoping and appropriate ownership of technical lessons learnt at project close out.
• Delegate tasks under the NADL’s responsibility to staff qualified to assist completion of these efforts. 
• Facilitate the capture and communication of lessons learned at project close out or through project feedback.
• Coordinate discipline-specific software licensing across Water and in collaboration with IT and with partner busines