Drinking Water Treatment Process Engineer

Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.

Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a drinking water focused process engineer to join our team in the London, Waterloo, Windsor, Toronto, or Stoney Creek Ontario offices. These offices support projects throughout southwestern Ontario and work with brilliant specialists from across our North American operations.

Within this position, you can leverage the process engineering and municipal water treatment design knowledge gained through your education and early career. Under the guidance of our senior engineering staff, you will work on municipal drinking water treatment projects in a supporting capacity. At a high level your tasks may include the development of engineering and financial calculations, participating in the design of water treatment facilities, engineering calculations, technical reports, providing proposal support, and independent field work. The projects that may be assigned are broad, varied, and diverse in scope, and often require seamlessly working with a diverse project team.

We are looking for a self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset, who can quickly get up to speed and grow into the role. It is expected that you have obtained your professional engineering designation or have the ability to obtain within 12 months. Many of the challenges we tackle for our clients are complex and multi-faceted, requiring comprehensive analytical skills often gained through rigorous academic study. Although not a requirement, advanced degrees in engineering and business administration are highly desired.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Consistently demonstrate a commitment to the Health and Safety culture within Stantec

• Take a self-directed role and manage multiple projects with competing deadlines effectively; provide timely and concise feedback to supervisory staff.

• Contribute to conceptual design basis reports, engineering assessments, data analysis and design calculations.

• Prepare detailed technical analysis of existing or in support of the design of drinking water facilities.

• Contribute to the preparation of construction specifications, tender documents, and applications for approvals to regulators on behalf of municipal clients.

• Support the preparation of engineering calculations, design drawings, technical specifications, and construction documents.

• Maintain positive relationships with municipal clients, vendors, consultants, and regulators as needed always using a professional communication approach.

• Conduct occasional site visits to support proposals, project development, or business development.

• Inspect and review projects during construction, which may include monitoring conformance with contract documents, reviewing the progress of construction activities, and ensuring cost, schedule and quality standards are met.

• Assist the project manager or lead engineer in preparation of proposals and technical reports.

• Assist project technical leads in managing project deliverables and schedule.

• Ability to work in a flexible office environment, including working within the office setting, or working remote from home where required.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Understanding of general concepts of relevant areas of water engineering.

• Ability to participate and collaborate in a project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought.

• Ability to organize and prioritize work to meet project budget and schedule.

• Demonstrated creativity, foresight, and engineering judgment in anticipating and solving problems.

• Understanding of engineering concepts and ability to communicate ideas to others.

• Effectively communicates project issues with the contractor, project team and clients in the execution of engineering projects.

• Strong presentation, technical, and soft communication skills. Experience working with municipal clients considered an asset.

• Understanding of Microsoft Office Suite is required; proficiency in engineering applications such as AutoCAD and Revit software packages are considered an asset.

• Completion of an advanced degree related to drinking water treatment process engineering disciplines considered an asset.

• Holds a valid drivers’ license.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Chemical, Environmental, or Civil Engineering from an accredited institution.

• Minimum of 6 years of water engineering related work experience.

• Licensed Professional Engineer desired.

Typical office environment working with computers and sitting at a desk. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather. Our group operates under a hybrid work strategy with work expectations being a combination of work from home and in-office support, however, the successful applicant for this role will be expected to spend a majority of their work week working from the London, Waterloo, Windsor, Toronto or Stoney Creek Ontario office (3-4 days/week).

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.

Pay Range:

• Locations Outside of Lower Mainland - BC & Various locations in Ontario-$89,200.00 - $129,300.00 Annually

• Locations in Lower Mainland - BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario-$94,600.00 - $137,100.00 Annually

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) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, 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 time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

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

Primary Location: Canada | ON | Waterloo
Other Locations: Canada | ON | Windsor
Organization: BC-1656 Water-CA Ontario West
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 25/06/2026 01:06:47
Req ID: 1006473