Civil Engineer
Posted 9 Jan 2026
Advertised as “Senior Civil Engineer - Water Projects”
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- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
No salary listed for this role.
CertificationsProfessional Engineer
Communities everywhere share the need for clean and reliable water and be safe from the dangers it imposes. And 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 help communities improve, reuse, control, and protect our world’s most precious resource.
Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us and redefine what’s possible, H2O+U.
Stantec is seeking a Senior Civil Engineer in our Knoxville, Tennessee office to help manage and execute Stantec’s services in the east Tennessee area and collaborate with teams across the Southeast Region. This role will work closely with the Business Center Leadership Team and Account Managers to lead and execute projects in the Knoxville and surrounding markets and maintain hands-on technical roles for various projects. The right candidate will have extensive experience in managing and executing a variety of Water/Civil projects, staff development, managing a multi-discipline design, and business development.
As a senior engineer and project manager in Stantec’s Water Business Line, your role is to work on and lead projects both small and large, leading and supervising a team to execute the work. You will perform a variety of tasks related to civil engineering in support of dams, flood protection, power, water resources, and water infrastructure projects that may include calculations, modeling, design, planning, reporting, field work, construction, management and coordination of tasks and assignments, and client interaction. As a senior engineer you may also help recruit, onboard, mentor, supervise, and train staff to assist with building a multi-disciplinary team in Knoxville and the Southeast Region.
This role will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to expand their engineering knowledge, grow into different sectors, lead business development efforts, and get involved with teams around the country working on interesting and innovative projects that directly influence the communities we live in.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Assisting in maintaining a strong culture in the Knoxville office, consistent with Stantec’s overall mission and objectives and alignment with Southeast Region goals.
- Contributing to multiple projects simultaneously, whether in managerial, technical, or support roles.
- Assisting in developing project scope, budgets, and design for various sized projects, supporting marketing and business development professionals in positioning for potential projects, writing technical portions of proposals, participating in client interviews, and supporting negotiations for project contracts.
- Collaborating with teams in the Southeast Region offices and across business lines and geographies, connecting the Knoxville office to the broader Stantec network.