Emergency Management Specialist – Project Manager

Responsibilities

Manage and deliver multi-year emergency management and resilience programs for critical infrastructure owners. Serve as a client-facing project manager and technical contributor responsible for developing emergency plans and facilitating stakeholder exercises.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in emergency management or infrastructure operations. Candidates must possess strong knowledge of emergency management frameworks and experience working with complex regulatory environments.

Skills

• Emergency management
• Project management
• Critical infrastructure
• Resilience planning
• Client engagement
• Stakeholder management
• Emergency operations planning
• Continuity of operations planning
• HSEEP
• NIMS
• ICS
• Business development
• Risk assessment
• Technical writing
• Infrastructure operations
• Program delivery

Benefits

• Medical plan
• Dental plan
• Vision plan
• Wellness program
• Health saving accounts
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) plan
• Employee stock purchase program
• Life insurance
• Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Short-term disability plan
• Long-term disability plan
• Emergency travel benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional membership fee coverage
• Paid family leave
• Paid holidays
• Vacation
• Paid sick leave

About this role

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide
our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. We draw from
more than 20 technical specialties worldwide and are committed to fostering an
inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We’re a
place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on
work critical to our clients and the communities they support. Join a team that
has the environment down to a science.

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.

QUALIFICATIONS

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 experienc...

About Stantec

Industrial Machinery Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees · headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta · founded 1954