Emergency Management Specialist – Project Manager

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Stantec is seeking an Emergency Management Specialist – Project Manager, Critical Infrastructure to immediately integrate into Stantec’s Emergency Management Practice in the United States. This position provides a client‑facing, supporting work across Northern California. This role will focus on managing and delivering active, multi‑year emergency management and resilience programs for critical infrastructure owners, while also supporting growth with other agencies and regional utilities.

Sitting at the intersection of emergency management, infrastructure operations, and program delivery, this position offers the opportunity to play a visible role on high‑profile programs that truly matter. The successful candidate will serve as both a project manager and technical contributor—supporting active programmatic backlog, delivering high‑quality client work, building trusted relationships, and helping position Stantec for expanded engagement across the emergency management practice.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Programmatic Emergency Management Delivery. Immediately integrate into the management and delivery of an ongoing, large‑scale programmatic emergency management contract supporting existing and future clients. Support active execution from day one, with increasing responsibility for coordination, client engagement, delivery leadership, and quality control.
• Project Management and Delivery Oversight. Manage the delivery of emergency management and resilience projects focused on critical infrastructure, with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, staffing, and performance, while ensuring alignment with Stantec’s quality, safety, and project management standards.
• Client Interface and Stakeholder Engagement. Serve as an client‑facing point of contact, supporting day‑to‑day coordination and facilitating meetings, workshops, and exercises with client stakeholders. Build and maintain strong working relationships with infrastructure owners, agencies, utilities, and regional partners.
• Technical Contribution and Quality Leadership. Serve as a key technical contributor responsible for developing and reviewing high‑quality, client‑ready deliverables, including, but not limited to, Emergency Action Plans, Emergency Operations Plans, Continuity of Operations Plans, discussion‑ and operations‑based exercises, after‑action reports, program and capability assessments, and related emergency management and resilience products.
• Infrastructure Integration and Cross‑Practice Collaboration. Collaborate with Stantec’s infrastructure teams to integrate emergency management and resilience services into projects and proposals related to critical infrastructure systems, including, but not limited to, dam and reservoir operations, conveyance systems, and power generation, SCADA, and control systems. Identify opportunities to expand scope through alignment with engineering, operations, and asset management services.
• Business Development and Sales. Actively support business development and sales by identifying and qualifying opportunities, strengthening relationships with existing and prospective clients, contributing to client-account and capture planning, and leading or supporting proposals, interviews, and other pursuit activities. Collaborate across business lines and disciplines to cross-sell Stantec’s capabilities, expand emergency management and resilience services, maintain accurate opportunity information in our client relationship management platform, and help convert trusted client relationships into repeat and new work.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Demonstrated senior‑level experience delivering emergency management and resilience services for critical infrastructure systems, including water, energy, transportation, or other large, regulated assets.
• Proven ability to manage projects and support programmatic delivery efforts, including coordination of multidisciplinary teams and responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
• Strong working knowledge of emergency management frameworks and standards, including ICS, NIMS, SEMS, FEMA’s Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP), and continuity planning principles.
• Demonstrated experience developing high‑quality, client‑ready emergency management and resilience deliverables, including, but not limited to, EOPs, EAPs, COOPs, and training and exercise programs.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and client engagement skills, with experience working directly with senior‑level stakeholders.
• Proven ability to produce clear, concise, and technically sound written deliverables for complex, regulated environments.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Staff management experience, including supervising, mentoring, and developing professional staff, is desired.
• Professional certifications relevant to emergency management, exercises, or project delivery—such as CEM, MEP, PMP, or equivalent credentials—are desirable.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, planning, engineering, public administration, environmental science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and progressively responsible professional experience.

Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience in emergency management, resilience planning, infrastructure operations, or a closely related field, with demonstrated application to large‑scale critical infrastructure systems.

Experience supporting public agencies, utilities, or infrastructure owner‑operators within complex regulatory and operational environments.

Valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving record.

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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