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Role description:
This role is intended for experienced civil engineers who are ready to transition from primarily technical delivery into a structured Project Management development track. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership on land development projects while progressively developing client management, project financial management, business development, and team leadership skills. This is not an immediate Project Manager role, but rather a deliberate progression toward managing projects, clients, schedules, and budgets under the mentorship of senior leaders.
Role accountabilities:
POSITION DUTIES
- Act as the Project Engineer (PE) and technical lead on assigned land development projects alongside Project Managers, Senior Engineers, and Designers.
- Lead the preparation and review of grading, servicing, stormwater management, erosion and sediment control, and site servicing designs.
- Coordinate with planners, architects, landscape architects, surveyors, geotechnical consultants, environmental consultants, utility agencies, municipalities, and approval authorities.
- Participate in client, municipal, and consultant meetings as a technical representative of the project team.
- Develop an understanding of client objectives, project risks, project budgets, approval strategies, and delivery schedules.
- Build and maintain professional relationships with clients, municipal reviewers, utility agencies, and project stakeholders.
- Guide projects through preliminary design, municipal approvals, detailed design, tendering, construction, and assumption.
- Conduct site visits, construction reviews, and field investigations as required.
- Demonstrate leadership and initiative in identifying project risks, technical challenges, schedule impacts, and client concerns before they become project issues.
- Contribute to proposal preparation, project planning, fee development, staffing forecasts, and business development activities.
- Work on projects that include:
- Residential developments
- Draft Plan Subdivisions
- High-rise and mixed-use developments
- Industrial and employment lands
- Commercial developments
- Institutional projects
- Municipal infrastructure improvements
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead municipal approval submissions and coordinate responses to review comments for Site Plan, Draft Plan of Subdivision, Condominium, and related planning applications.
- Develop and execute approval strategies in collaboration with senior project managers, clients, municipalities, and project teams.
- Serve as the primary technical contact for assigned clients.
- Participate in client meetings and presentations.
- Build long-term client relationships through responsive service and technical leadership.
- Support identification of future opportunities with existing clients.
- Lead technical delivery of grading, servicing, stormwater management, and land development projects.
- Prepare and oversee engineering designs, calculations, reports, and construction drawing packages.
- Author, coordinate, or review:
- Functional Servicing Reports (FSRs)
- Stormwater Management Reports (SWMs)
- Engineering Briefs
- Civil land development type engineering submissions (servicing, grading etc..)
- Review and direct Civil 3D production completed by designers and technologists.
- Interpret municipal standards, agency requirements, engineering criteria, geotechnical recommendations, and site constraints to develop practical engineering solutions.
- Coordinate directly with clients, municipalities, utility agencies, review authorities, architects, and partner consultants regarding project requirements and approvals.
- Lead responses to municipal review comments and coordinate revisions with internal project teams.
- Manage action items arising from project meetings and maintain accountability for deliverables.
- Support Project Managers with:
- Project schedules
- Resource planning
- Scope management
- Fee tracking
- Change management
- Client communications
- Progressively assume responsibility for managing small projects or portions of larger projects under the mentorship of senior staff.
- Perform QA/QC reviews of drawings, engineering reports, calculations, and submission packages.
- Mentor EITs, Designers, and Technologists on design principles, municipal approvals, project delivery, and professional practice.
- Support proposal preparation, business development initiatives, client presentations, and pursuit activities.
Qualifications & Experience:
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Engineering Design
- Advanced grading design
- Municipal servicing design
- Stormwater management design
- Watermain design
- Sanitary sewer design
- Site servicing analysis
- Earthworks and quantity calculations
- Hydraulic grade analysis
- Municipal infrastructure design standards
Approvals & Project Delivery
- Site Plan Approval applications
- Draft Plan of Subdivision applications
- Condominium applications
- Municipal engineering submissions
- Utility coordination
- Agency approvals
- Tendering and contract administration support
AutoCAD / Civil 3D
Working proficiency with Civil 3D sufficient to lead and review technical production
- Surface modelling
- Pipe networks
- Profiles and alignments
- Corridors
- Feature lines and grading tools
- Data Shortcuts
- QA/QC of design models and drawing packages
Engineering Reports & Analysis
- Functional Servicing Reports
- Stormwater Management Reports
- Technical memoranda
- Servicing briefs
- Engineering calculations
- Construction cost estimates
MUST-HAVE
- Civil Engineering degree.
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) licensed in Ontario, or actively pursuing licensure with a clearly demonstrated path toward obtaining designation.
- 5 - 8 years of relevant land development consulting experience.
- Experience leading technical delivery of Site Plan, Subdivision, and/or Condominium developments.
- Experience coordinating directly with municipalities, clients, and external consultants.
- Strong understanding of Ontario municipal engineering standards and approval processes.
- Experience preparing or coordinating Functional Servicing Reports and Stormwater Management Reports.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3D.
- Strong technical writing skills and ability to prepare professional engineering documentation.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines.
- Strong verbal communication and client-facing presentation skills.
- Demonstrated initiative, accountability, and leadership potential.
NICE-TO-HAVE
- Experience within GTA municipalities and approval agencies.
- Hamilton, Halton, Peel, York Region, Durham Region, or Toronto approvals experience.
- PCSWMM, Visual OTTHYMO, or other stormwater modelling software experience.
- Previous experience mentoring EITs, Designers, or Technologists.
- Construction administration and field review experience.
- Proposal preparation and fee estimate experience.
- Exposure to project financial management and scope control.
- Business development or client account management exposure.
SOFT SKILLS & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
- Demonstrates accountability and ownership of project outcomes, not just assigned tasks.
- Composed and professional when interacting with clients, municipalities, agencies, and consultants.
- Demonstrates initiative and proactively advances projects without waiting to be directed.
- Identifies risks early and develops practical mitigation strategies.
- Strong decision-making and engineering judgment.
- Effective communicator who can explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable managing conflict, differing stakeholder interests, and competing project priorities.
- Builds trust and credibility with clients and internal teams.
- Willing to mentor junior staff and contribute to team development.
- Works effectively within multidisciplinary and multi-office project teams.
- Demonstrates curiosity, accountability, and a desire for continuous improvement.
- Open to modern technology, digital delivery tools, and AI-enabled workflows while maintaining sound professional judgment.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT TRACK
This position is part of Arcadis' Project Manager development pathway. Successful candidates will be expected to progressively assume responsibility for:
- Client relationship management
- Project planning and scheduling
- Scope management
- Fee proposal preparation
- Financial performance tracking
- Resource planning
- Team leadership
- Business development
The successful candidate should be capable of managing smaller projects independently within 12-24 months.
EXPERIENCE
- 5-8 years of experience in land development consulting, municipal engineering, or related civil infrastructure design.
- Demonstrated progression toward technical leadership, client interaction, and project management responsibilities.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.
