Job Description

The North American Discipline Lead (NADL) is the operational leader for the discipline across North America, responsible for aligning people, workload, staffing, financial planning, delivery capacity, and day-to-day execution needs with business objectives and project delivery commitments. The NADL provides leadership for resource planning, utilization, hiring, succession planning, workload balancing, budgeting, and coordination across Engineering Discipline Leads (EDLs), Business Centers, Pune Team and other Discipline Leads. While the NADL maintains sufficient technical understanding to make informed staffing and delivery decisions, the role is primarily focused on operational execution, team performance, workforce planning, and delivery readiness. The NADL works closely with the discipline Subject Matter Expert (SME), who serves as the primary technical authority for standards, methods, quality, innovation, and discipline-specific technical excellence.

Your Responsibilities

Quality and Innovation

• Partner with the Discipline SME(s) to implement discipline standards, quality expectations, and project review processes across active project teams.
• Assign appropriate discipline resources for project execution and quality reviews by matching staff availability, experience level, workload, and project delivery needs.
• Coordinate implementation of approved tools, workflows, and innovation initiatives developed or endorsed by the Discipline SME.
• Communicate discipline standards, best practices, and centralized resources to project teams and confirm they are being applied consistently.
• Monitor quality review participation, staffing coverage, and follow-through on corrective actions or lessons learned.

Project Management and Execution

• Coordinate discipline staffing for significant projects, pursuits, and delivery commitments in collaboration with EDLs, PTLs, the Pune Team, project managers, and Business Center leadership.
• Promote work sharing, workload balancing, and resource optimization across regions to support project schedules, budgets, and delivery priorities.
• Track near-term and long-term workload forecasts and identify staffing gaps, over-allocations, or emerging delivery risks.
• Escalate operational constraints, resource conflicts, or delivery risks to appropriate leadership and support resolution through coordinated staffing actions.

Health & Safety

• Organize technical learning related to safety in design and promote a culture of delivery efficiency through safe practices.

People Management

• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and delivery-focused culture within the discipline.
• Coordinate staff development, mentoring, coaching, and career growth in partnership with EDLs, supervisors, and the Discipline SME.
• Manage discipline succession planning and identify staff readiness, advancement opportunities, and leadership gaps.
• Facilitate training priorities that support project delivery, operational consistency, and the technical development priorities identified by the Discipline SME.
• Collaborate with leadership to identify hiring needs, skill gaps, staffing risks, and development plans.
• Track staff utilization, chargeability, workload projections, availability, and overall staffing balance across the discipline.
• Coordinate annual budgeting needs with the Discipline SME, EDLs, and Delivery Center Leaders, including training, software, staffing, and operational support needs.
• Manage the overall discipline resource pool, including hiring, right-sizing, regional staffing alignment, and coordination with EDLs for placement of resources in their respective regions.

Business Development and Collaboration

• Maintain current discipline staffing information, including skill matrices, resumes, availability, and key project experience.
• Support major pursuits by developing or coordinating discipline-specific staffing plans, delivery assumptions, schedules, budgets, and resource strategies.
• Review discipline scopes, schedules, budgets, and staffing plans prepared by EDLs or discipline staff for consistency with delivery capacity and operational expectations.
• Coordinate with local Business Centers to align pursuit commitments with available discipline capacity and delivery readiness.
• Support client and market-facing activities by ensuring the discipline can demonstrate appropriate staffing depth, delivery capability, and operational reliability.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience, preferably in consulting, project delivery, operations leadership, or discipline management. Professional Engineer licensure preferred where applicable.
• Strong experience with workforce planning, project delivery coordination, staffing, utilization management, budgeting, scope, schedule, and change management.
• Working knowledge of discipline standards, quality programs, organizational frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrated leadership, management, communication, collaboration, and team-building skills.
• Ability to resolve resource conflicts, coordinate across regions, and support operational decisions that balance project needs with staff development and business priorities.
• Strong business acumen and ability to align staffing, workload, and delivery capacity with business objectives.
• Superior communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Willingness and ability to travel as required.

About the Team

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements