Ports & Marine Terminal Lead at Stantec in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Ports & Marine Terminal Lead

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Our Transportation Team builds better communities through unique and meaningful opportunities that promote and encourage innovation. We are diverse and enthusiastic. We value each other and together we grow our cities, our people, and our business. Think of your career as a journey? Come chart a course for innovation with our Ports & Marine team and help deliver safe, efficient, and resilient infrastructure that connects communities and supports the movement of people and goods. Be part of shaping the future—from shore to sea.

A career in ports and marine is about more than waterfront structures and terminals. As we plan, design, and manage projects that connect land and water, we support the movement of people and goods, strengthen supply chains, and help coastal communities and industries thrive. Every port, marine terminal, ferry facility, shipyard, waterfront, or coastal infrastructure project is an opportunity to improve safety, efficiency, sustainability, and resilience. Together, we’re making an impact along coastlines and around the world.

If you’re looking for a career that moves, join our team of professionals who are passionate about the future of transportation.

We are currently seeking applications for our Ports & Marine Team Lead (British Columbia), who will lead the day-to-day operations of the British Columbia team, with a focus on staffing, utilization, employee development, quality, workload management, and coordinated project delivery. This role will work in partnership with a separate leadership position accountable for major-project leadership, strategic client relationships, business development, and pursuit leadership. NOTE: last day to apply is November 6.

Your Opportunity

Our Ports & Marine Team Lead (British Columbia) is one of several discipline-specific Team Leads within Stantec’s Transportation Leadership Team in British Columbia. This is an exciting opportunity to strengthen team operations, develop our people, and support consistent, high-quality delivery across the province.

You will lead the day-to-day performance and development of our award winning Ports & Marine Team in British Columbia, aligning team capacity with project needs and creating the conditions for our people and projects to succeed.

This opportunity is ideal for a motivated, people-focused leader with strong experience in ports and marine, multidisciplinary team leadership, workforce planning, and operational performance.

Your Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Lead and support a multidisciplinary team of engineers, project managers, planners, designers, and technical specialists.
• Provide day-to-day team management and quality oversight, set clear priorities, and ensure work meets applicable standards and quality expectations.
• Lead resource planning, staff allocation, utilization monitoring, and workload balancing to align team capacity with current and forecast project needs.
• Foster an inclusive, engaged, and collaborative team culture that supports employee experience, well-being, accountability, and retention.
• Work closely with the Transportation Leadership Team in British Columbia and the Ports & Marine Sector to support operational planning, coordinated delivery, and corporate requirements.
• Recruit and onboard talent, mentor and develop team members, and support career and succession planning.
• Facilitate goal setting, coaching, performance reviews, and professional development planning for each team member.
• Track team performance against established operational, quality, people, utilization, and financial objectives and coordinate corrective action where needed.

Team Operations & Performance

• Develop and maintain an integrated workforce plan that aligns skills, capacity, hiring, and succession needs with the team’s forecast workload.
• Monitor utilization, backlog, labour mix, and other key financial and operational indicators; take timely action to address workload imbalances and performance gaps.
• Coordinate with project, discipline, and business leaders to match the right people to the right work and maintain a sustainable distribution of responsibilities.
• Coordinate staffing and technical resources across projects to support timely, effective delivery.
• Monitor workload, schedules, delivery risks, and competing priorities, escalating constraints and coordinating solutions with project and business leaders.
• Promote consistent project delivery practices and identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency, and collaboration.
• Support project managers and technical leads with team coordination, resourcing, and issue resolution without assuming primary leadership of major projects or strategic client accounts.
• Promote our strong safety culture, ensuring it remains at the forefront of our work and leading by example.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing multidisciplinary technical teams in a collaborative, matrixed environment.
• Strong workforce-planning capability, including resource forecasting, staff allocation, succession planning, recruitment, and workload balancing.
• Proven ability to manage team financial and operational performance, including utilization, backlog, labour mix, capacity, and delivery forecasts.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple concurrent projects, disciplines, and competing priorities while maintaining quality and sustainable workloads.
• Strong knowledge of ports and marine projects, technical disciplines, delivery practices, and market context.
• Exemplary communication, coaching, relationship-building, and change-management skills.
• Sound judgment and the ability to identify operational risks, resolve resource constraints, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Excellent time-management skills with a thorough understanding of task assignment and scheduling, budgeting and structuring efficient uses of time and resources while managing multiple concurrent packages.
• Strong knowledge of ports and marine projects, technical disciplines, delivery practices, and market context.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a recognized post-secondary institute.
• Licensed Professional Engineer with EGBC.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.

This position is full-time and will primarily work in an office setting with opportunities for a hybrid work environment. Some field work and travel are required.

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.

A career in transportation is more than bridges, roads, and rail. As we plan, design, and manage projects that move people and goods from Point A to Point B, we create connections that transform our communities. Every airport, road, bridge, port, or transit project is an opportunity to make communities safer, cleaner, and more resilient. Together, we’re making an impact around the world.

If you’re looking for a career that moves, join our team of professionals who are passionate about the future of transportation.