Resilience Planner

We create great places and the connections that get people and goods moving—whether by car, bus, train, plane, 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

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make a positive impact on the world around us. Climate change presents a new set of challenges, with hazards impacting infrastructure, the environment, and our communities. We have learned that our greatest influence on improving climate outcomes stems from the innovative climate solutions we provide to our clients. Come join us in creating the resilient and sustainable communities of tomorrow! 

Stantec’s Northeast Transportation team is seeking a mid-level Resilience Planner with expertise in climate adaptation, hazard mitigation, sustainability, and climate action planning. You will lead and collaborate on a wide array of projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. You will contribute to a broad portfolio of resilience planning efforts including but not limited to climate change vulnerability assessments, climate adaptation plans, asset management studies, and infrastructure funding strategies. You will exchange ideas, best practices, and lessons learned with Stantec’s local and national experts in resilience planning, modeling, and design. You will help execute our resilience strategy in the Northeast market.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a mid-level Resilience Planner, you will join a growing and enthusiastic team of planning professionals. You will have the opportunity to contribute to forward-looking programs, policies, and plans. You will partner with our climate and environmental scientists, GIS experts, funding specialists, and design professionals (engineers, architects, landscape architects, etc.) to develop action-oriented resilience plans for our municipal and agency clients.

In this role, your understanding of community and infrastructure resilience, hazard mitigation, climate adaptation, vulnerability assessment, and stakeholder engagement will allow you to lead tasks, teams, and projects across the region and nationally depending on your interests.

We are seeking an individual with the desire and ability to:

• Enhance our resilience planning practice in the Northeast market.

• Manage multiple planning projects in a time-sensitive, fast-paced team environment.

• Prepare and review technical reports, planning documents, and visual materials (maps, graphics, presentations).

• Guide the development and delivery of inclusive and equitable stakeholder engagement.

• Support staff development and workload planning.

• Motivate and inspire teams to work together to achieve project goals.

• Organize the teams’ efforts to consistently deliver quality plans on schedule/budget.

• Support proposal development and business development efforts.

• Represent Stantec at industry events, client and agency meetings.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Passionate about climate resilience, sustainability projects, and initiatives.

• Self-starter with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Team-oriented professional with strong research, analysis, and reporting abilities.

• Proven and demonstrated high quality technical writing skills.

• Proficient in MS Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• Adobe Creative Cloud and GIS experience required.

• Growth mindset with a strong desire to stay knowledgeable on trends and best practices.

• Demonstrated experience using publicly available climate data and models as the basis for climate change vulnerability assessments.

• Experience preparing resilience plans and/or climate resilient corridor studies.

• Knowledge of state and federal resilience focused funding programs/sources; grant writing experience desirable.

Education and Experience

• Masters Degree in Urban Planning, Public Policy, Sustainability Management, or related field.

• 8-12 years of relevant planning and public policy experience in the Northeast.

• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) or Professional Planner (PP) preferred.

This role may require some field work. Must have valid driver’s license.

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 others’ talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.