Job Description

Stantec is designing the solutions that the world needs today to ensure a sustainable tomorrow. We deliver iconic Energy infrastructure projects and advisory services including to some of the world's largest power grids, large-scale renewable energy facilities while solving some of the most dynamic energy business challenges supporting our client's continued evolution and advancement. We are pushing the boundaries of clean energy and grid modernization with innovative thinking and premium consulting service delivery. We are delivering safe, reliable energy while supporting business adaptation and evolution.

We've built a flexible work environment focused on your career goals and aspirations. At Stantec, you'll find yourself working with industry leaders at one of the world's top professional services firms.

Join a team that leaves you #FeelingEnergized and make an impact that will last generations.

Your Opportunity:

The Analytics & Technology Consultant will be part of the Management Consulting Team supporting asset, organizational, financial, infrastructure funding, economic, and technology consulting services to governments and public agencies, electric utilities, energy developers, and energy-intensive stakeholders in North America. To achieve this the Analytics & Technology Consultant will contribute to strategic planning, analytics development, grid modernization and optimization initiatives, technology planning and implementation, and asset management projects for governments and public agencies, electric utilities, energy developers, and energy-intensive clients among other client organizations.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• This position is an external client-facing position with our Management Consulting Team.
• Work dynamically with project delivery teams and subject matter experts to identify best-fit solutions, including in the areas of analytics development, decision support tools, grid modernization and optimization initiatives, and energy sector technology planning, modelling, and implementation.
• Serve as a member of multiple project delivery teams, including supporting analytics tool development, technical reports and client facilitations among other project delivery tasks.
• Support the project team with project management and coordination tasks, with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist business development efforts in responding to client requests, RFQs, and RFPs.
• Report regularly and engage proactively in adherence to Stantec's Project Delivery protocols.
• Remain up to date on industry policy, regulatory, and technological developments across target markets, major trends, and competitor activity with a view to ensuring that the firm's service offerings best align to current and future market needs.
• Serve as an ambassador for the group representing it at industry conferences, speaking engagements, and other external industry related events, where appropriate.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities & Credentials:

• Experience contributing to high-quality deliverables that can withstand scrutiny from technical, regulatory and executive stakeholders.
• Experience with asset management, asset analytics, and digital applications within the electrical utility market.
• Understanding of electrical utility and energy-focused firms operational needs and requirements.
• Familiar with the relationship between technical, digital and policy drivers on electrical utility and energy industry clients.
• A highly intelligent, strategically minded self-starter with superb communication and interpersonal skills who prioritizes the development of trust and authenticity for themselves and among their team.
• Strong sense of Team. Always willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire Team.
• Highly creative and innovative thinker, with a displayed willingness to step outside of conventional approaches in pursuit of client value and service excellence.
• Highly collaborative, able to use influence to build consensus within cross-functional teams.
• Able to manage competing priorities in a high-paced global consultancy while maintaining overall value and quality.
• Experience in working as part of a distributed team of technical and business professionals.

Education and Experience:

• 1-3 years of project management, consulting or client-side experience, at one of these organizations: electrical utility, energy developer, and/or grid operator or consulting company.
• Knowledge of the electrical utility and energy sector.
• Relevant post-secondary degree, including but not limited to business, engineering, or computer science.
• Analysis capabilities with one or more of the following: R, Matlab, VBA, SAS, Databricks, Alteryx, or Python.
• Experience with emerging technologies and programs within the electricity sector, such as DER aggregation, demand side management, and other non-wires alternatives would be an asset.
• Experience delivering digital, AI, and analytics projects to the Canadian energy industry and related stakeholders would be an asset.
• Experience in developing energy demand forecasts would be an asset.
• Experience with some of the following grid modernization technologies would be an asset: Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS), CYME, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) 2.0, Distribution Automation (DA), and Fault Location, Isolation, & Service Restoration (FLISR).

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.