Water Treatment - Regional Leader

Water Treatment - Regional Sector Leader

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Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. As they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.

The Regional Sector Leader (RSL) is an integral role within our Water regional leadership team, directing our work with technical rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for solving the world’s greatest water challenges. In this leadership role, you can apply your passion for technical excellence and innovation, lead and develop top talent, and lend your voice to our collaborative leadership culture that empowers our people to redefine what’s possible.

• Strategy and Brand – Maintain knowledge of sector‑related industry drivers and trends, regulations, and technologies across North America and globally. Identify and prioritize opportunities to support our clients with emerging challenges; strategically grow our technical capabilities and people resources to meet client needs; foster a strong industry brand that differentiates Stantec among our peers. Implement branding strategies, take on leadership roles in national and international professional trade organizations, and manage effective conference participation.
• Delivering Excellence – Recruit and retain a distributed team of exceptional sector professionals across all career levels and geographies. Connect sector practitioners with project managers and delivery experts to plan and deliver high‑quality, innovative solutions. Work with Delivery leaders and Water’s Innovation Leader to support the development of digital delivery tools, innovative approaches, and new technologies.
• Positioning and Pursuit – Collaborate with regional growth leaders and account managers to develop relationships with key clients, increase client awareness of our capabilities, connect internal subject matter experts to strategic pursuits, and identify new project opportunities related to priority sector growth areas.

• Identify and support the win of strategic pursuits in collaboration with local Business Center Practice Leaders, Account Managers, and business developers.
• Act as a liaison between local/regional teams and the North American Sector Leader and practice community to leverage technical skills locally.
• Reinforce our brand as a leader in water treatment through active participation in industry organizations, thought leadership, and communication with strategic clients.
• Provide leadership to our water treatment professionals.

• Regularly engage with clients.
• Actively participate in industry associations.
• Leverage your understanding of the industry drivers, market trends, and legislative requirements in the US South to support and grow our water treatment portfolio.
• Identify how technology changes affect our clients and our business.
• Collaborate across the region to share knowledge and resources.
• Contribute to our North America Water Treatment Team to implement our strategy across the continent and bring services and specialists from the broader Stantec organization to our clients.
• Help recruit, retain, and inspire a team of water treatment professionals at multiple levels with exceptional technical skills.
• Engage in delivery of water projects as a subject matter expert, leveraging industry best practices and new or innovative technologies.
• Work closely with sector leaders, practice leaders, regional growth teams, project developers, and the Stantec Institute for Water Technology and Policy to match internal resources with projects and pursuits where they can bring value.
• Consistently demonstrate a commitment to the Health and Safety culture within Stantec.

• Engage in Top 20 Regional strategic pursuit opportunities.
• Collaborate with other Regional Sector Leader counterparts.
• Conduct…