Clean water is essential to every community. At Stantec, our Water team is tackling today’s most complex challenges with innovation, scientific rigor, and a commitment to sustainability. We’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource, and we want you to be part of it.

We’re hiring a Process Engineer to join our Portland-based team and help deliver transformational water infrastructure projects that benefit future generations. Grow with us. H2O + U.

Your Opportunity

As a Process Engineer, you’ll play a key role in the planning, design, operation, and optimization of chemical, physical, mechanical, and biological processes for water and wastewater treatment facilities and pumping stations. You’ll collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams to develop impactful solutions that improve public health, environmental quality, and community resilience.

This is a chance to work on projects you can be proud of, alongside some of the best technical minds in the industry.

What You’ll Do

• Lead advanced engineering planning and design tasks with minimal supervision

• Prepare engineering drawings, reports, presentations, and regulatory applications

• Develop project scopes, budgets, and design approaches for small projects

• Support marketing and business development efforts, including proposal writing and client interviews

• Collaborate with clients, consultants, contractors, and vendors to coordinate project specifications

• Lead internal and external project coordination meetings

• Serve as a technical resource on complex projects

• Apply advanced process engineering principles and stay current with emerging methods

• Resolve complex issues using expertise and sound judgment

• Contribute to proposal development and contract negotiations

• Help establish new standards and specifications for process design

• Supervise project resources and manage budgets and schedules

• Serve as engineer of record for your own work and that of junior staff

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Chemical, or Mechanical Engineering

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience preferred

• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) required

• Strong technical expertise in water and wastewater treatment processes

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to lead and mentor junior staff

• Passion for sustainability and community impact

Join us and redefine your personal best.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Primary Location: United States | OR | Portland
Organization: 2243 Water-US Delivery-Portland OR
Employee Status: Regular
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 09/09/2025 04:09:35
Req ID: 1002176

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