Project Manager
Posted 4 May 2026
Advertised as “Project Manager – Biologist/Ecologist”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
CertificationsBachelor of Science
Field of studyBiology, Ecology, Environmental Land Use Planning, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies (or related)
Field of studyEcology, Environmental Land Use Planning, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies (or related)
Study levelMaster's
Your Opportunity
We are currently growing our Environmental Services Power Utility team. Stantec’s Northern California team is currently seeking a Project Manager with Senior Biology/Ecology experience to join our Environmental Services Practice working within our power utility sector. The successful candidate will work in a team environment and will be responsible for managing tasks and/or projects, leading the development of technical documents, and managing biological surveys/studies, and/or coordination with environmental permitting for our utility clients. They will also be responsible for assisting and/or leading with proposals as well as presentations to clients and agencies. Stantec offers flexible work locations (including working from home), flexible work hours and a robust compensation and benefits package.
Your Key Responsibilities
As a Project Manager and Senior Biologist/Ecologist, you will provide biological knowledge to support environmental review needs for public and private projects on utility programs. You will manage and lead multi-disciplinary project/program teams. Task duties may include managing environmental permitting efforts, providing quality control on biological reviews and reports, managing technical study support for siting and licensing of other energy production and transmission projects, environmental impact analysis support, and CEQA/NEPA support, and coordination/management for environmental projects.
- Manage multi-discipline program or project schedules, deliverables, budgets, staff, and the project record, and bring program/project schedules, budgets, and scopes of work to successful completion.
- Develop effective and efficient work-flow processes and program/project appropriate communication plans.
- Provide planning and permitting support for electrical transmission siting and licensing projects.
- Leading the preparation and review of technical documents such as due diligence studies, discretionary environmental permitting, State and federal acts, biological technical studies, regulatory compliance services related projects to clients within the environmental services energy sector.
- Help develop and mentor a team of high performers through coaching and training staff to expand understanding of business development, delivery on technical biological reports, environmental permitting, and project delivery/management.
- Developing proposals (scope and budgets) for environmental services tasks, independently or as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Interacting and communicating effectively with multi-disciplinary teams, clients, and agencies. This includes being an active member within a team of our Environmental Services Power Utility team based out of the San Franciso Greater Bay Area and Sacramento Valley Region, and across our North California geography.