Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

The North of 60 Transportation team is a vibrant group, focused on delivering innovative solutions for today’s civic challenges throughout the Territories and Western Canada. Building on each other’s talents, we collaborate across all disciplines to execute projects of all sizes and complexities – from roadway, traffic, structural, environmental, water, power, digital technologies, and more - to make our communities safer, more resilient, and exciting places to live and work.

We encourage our team to push the limits in an innovative and energetic environment, focusing on developing our team’s skillsets while advancing individual careers. We routinely engage with experts throughout North America, making the most of today’s technology and being the first to create new ones. We have three offices north of 60—Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and Iqaluit, the capital cities of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, respectively—serving as hubs for project delivery across the territories. Because our northern teams are lean and deeply connected to the communities they serve, people working north of 60 take on broader roles, gain hands on experience, and contribute across the full life cycle of projects. Here are a couple of links to provide an example of the work you could be involved in:

Grays Bay Road and Port - Engineering and Environmental Consulting

Mackenzie Valley Highway Extension

We’re driving the future of transportation infrastructure. This is a place to apply your passion and grow with endless opportunities to help advance communities, today and tomorrow. We create great places and connections that get people and goods moving—whether by car, bus, train, plane, bike, scooter, or their own two feet. Working within the context of the communities we serve, we provide planning, engineering, and infrastructure management services that fit the needs of our clients and improve the overall transportation experience. Join our team and help us keep communities connected.

Your Opportunity

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in some of the most significant transportation and economic infrastructure initiatives in Northern Canada, including current and future work associated with the Mackenzie Valley Highway, Grays Bay Road and Port, and the broader Arctic Economic Security Corridor. These projects are more than roads—they are critical connections that support community access, resource development, trade, sovereignty, emergency response, and long-term economic resilience across the North.

As part of our North of 60 Transportation team, you will help shape infrastructure solutions in some of Canada’s most complex and meaningful project environments, where engineering, environmental stewardship, Indigenous partnership, constructability, and logistics all come together. This role offers the chance to contribute to nationally significant corridor projects while building strong relationships with territorial governments, Indigenous organizations, industry partners, and multidisciplinary teams across Canada.

Stantec is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our growing Transportation practice in Yellowknife. You will engage with all aspects of our transportation and associated practices around Canada including roadway, traffic, multimodal, transit, planning and design, structural, environmental, hydraulic experts, and more. The person in this position will need a strong emphasis in project management and transportation engineering in the areas of roadways, civil, and drainage, highways and roadways/freeways.

Opportunity provides for a hybrid work environment. In office presence is expected based on project needs, client meetings, and team collaboration

Your Key Responsibilities

• Manage projects, delivery, and QA for the design of roadways/highways, intersections/interchanges and associated facilities to meet local, state and federal requirements.
• Manage the development of scopes of work, level of effort estimates, and project schedules.
• Provide mentorship and quality control for plan, specification, and estimate package preparation and submittal.
• Assist in the leadership and management of an established yet developing regional practice including mentorship of engineering staff.
• Support account management teams in establishing and maintaining relationships with key clients throughout the Yukon, Northwest Territories & Nunavut
• Offer creative planning and pursuit strategy solutions that support multi-disciplinary collaboration, client goals and objectives, and support and/or lead the pursuit strategy for projects including proposal development.
• Be familiar with alternate forms of project delivery such as design build.
• Support the creation of a diverse and driven culture developing tomorrow’s engineering solutions.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Professional Engineer, eligible to be registered through Engineers Yukon (EY) and/or Northwest Territories & Nunavut Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists (NAPEG) and knowledge of local conditions and environment.
• Familiarity with local, territorial and federal and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to manage transportation staff in successful delivery of projects.
• Proposal preparation experience; project management; project design experience; contract negotiation.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft suite of Office 365 products.
• Valid drivers license and good driving record required.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors of Science Degree in Civil Engineering or greater.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) license, eligible to be registered the Yukon and Northwest Territories and Nunavut
• Minimum 10 years of combined experience in transportation project management and delivery.

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.