Business Center Practice Leader - Environmental Services (Infrastructure)

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a connected, commercially minded Transportation-Focused Environmental Services Business Center Practice Leader (BCPL) to provide transformational leadership and accelerate Stantec’s growth in Ontario. This leader will strengthen our position in the transportation market by building influential industry relationships, shaping major pursuits and partnerships, connecting teams across Stantec, and expanding high-performing environmental services capabilities.

This is more than a leadership role; it’s your opportunity to:

• Grow our Transportation practice through a clear market vision and decisive leadership.

• Lead from the market by building visibility, trusted relationships, and strategic partnerships across the transportation industry.

• Connect Stantec’s full capabilities to position and deliver complex, multidisciplinary transportation programs.

Reporting to the Regional Growth Leader for Ontario & Atlantic Canada, you will set and advance the direction forStantec’s transportation-focused Environmental Services practice in Ontario. You will be an outward-facing industry leader who anticipates market shifts, builds relationships with transportation agencies, constructors, partners, and other market influencers, and positions Environmental Services early for major transit, rail, highway, bridge, municipal, port, and corridor programs. Internally, you will create strong connections across Environmental Services and other business lines so that integrated teams are aligned well before pursuits begin. You will translate strategy into focused client actions, capture plans, strategic hires, and accountable growth priorities while championing safety, quality, innovation, inclusion, and delivery excellence.

Your Key Responsibilities

Client Focus

• Use your transportation market experience, industry profile, and relationships to open doors, shape opportunities, and grow trusted partnerships with public agencies, constructors, design partners, and other priority clients.

• Serve as a visible Stantec leader in the transportation industry through executive client engagement, conferences, panels, associations, roundtables, thought leadership, and targeted market outreach.

• Lead strategic account and zipper planning for priority transportation clients, aligning client needs with Stantec’s environmental capabilities.

• Develop relationships and partnership strategies that strengthen Stantec’s position on major and alternative-delivery programs, including teaming arrangements and early engagement with prospective partners.

• Lead and contribute to high-impact transportation pursuits and campaigns across Ontario and nationally, with a focus on early positioning, differentiated value, and long-term client success.

Business Development and Collaboration

• Define and drive a transformational growth strategy for Transportation, translating market intelligence into clear priorities for clients, geographies, services, partnerships, and pursuits.

• Build strong, sustained connections with Transportation and other business-line leaders in each major geography, clarifying relationship owners and ensuring Environmental Services has an early seat at the table for priority programs.

• Identify major projects early and lead disciplined capture planning, partner selection, Go/No-Go decisions, and investment strategies for the opportunities with the greatest strategic value.

• Shape integrated teams and compelling pursuit strategies for complex transit, rail, highways, bridges, municipal infrastructure, ports, trade corridors, and other transformative transportation programs.

• Use data insights, account plans, market intelligence, and performance measures to guide commercial decisions and maintain accountability for sustainable revenue growth.

• Elevate Stantec’s market presence through coordinated client-facing activities, targeted campaigns, technical presentations, and thought leadership that demonstrate integrated environmental and transportation value.

• Strengthen delivery readiness by identifying leadership, project-management, technical, local-presence, and mobile-field capacity gaps, and by advancing strategic recruitment and succession plans ahead of major programs.

• Expand opportunities across the project lifecycle, including initial site assessment and environmental assessment and planning, permitting, ecology, archaeology, construction-phase compliance, inspection, resilience, and related advisory services.

• Coach client managers, project leaders, and technical teams in coordinated outreach, pursuit rigor, partnership development, and accountable follow-through.

• Build an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance culture across Ontario Environmental Services and work with other BCPLs and business leaders to enable borderless delivery and shared success.

• Champion Stantec’s Safer Together culture and lead health, safety, quality, risk management, and innovation performance.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Recognized credibility and a visible network in the Ontario transportation market, with a practical understanding of transit, rail, highways, bridges, municipal infrastructure, ports, trade corridors, procurement models, and environmental services needs.
• Transformational leadership experience, with the ability to establish a compelling vision, mobilize teams around change, challenge established approaches, and convert strategy into measurable market and business results.
• A proven record of building senior client and partner relationships, leading strategic pursuits, and positioning multidisciplinary teams for complex transportation programs.
• Strong external presence and communication skills, with the confidence to represent Stantec in industry forums, develop thought leadership, and influence clients, partners, and market stakeholders.
• Ability to build effective internal networks across business lines and geographies, clarify ownership, and connect clients with integrated solutions from early planning through construction and operations.
• Technical depth in one or more relevant environmental fields, such as environmental assessment and planning, permitting, ecology, archaeology, hydrogeology, contaminated sites, climate resilience, or construction-phase services.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and strong commercial acumen, including disciplined investment decisions, account and capture planning, negotiation, and accountability for growth.
• Demonstrated ability to develop project and pursuit leaders, mentor technical staff, identify succession and capability gaps, and attract strategic talent in a consulting environment.
• Experience bidding on, pursuing, and working on Alternative Project Delivery-type projects would be an asset.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering, hydrogeology, environmental planning, or a related field, with a minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible technical, leadership, financial management, business development, and consulting experience. Proven experience building client and partner relationships and leading growth in the transportation or broader infrastructure sector is required.

Professional registration in good standing in your environmental field of expertise.

This role can be based at any Stantec Ontario location, and relocation assistance is available for the successful candidate if located outside Ontario.

If you are ready to transform how we connect, position, pursue, and deliver in the transportation market and are a visible industry leader who builds partnerships and inspires teams, we would like to hear from you.

This posting closes on November 20, 2026.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

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.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

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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.

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties worldwide and are devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.

Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment.