Your Opportunity
The Senior Mechanical Recreation Specialist provides technical leadership for the planning, design, construction, and renewal of recreation facilities. The role focuses on high-performance mechanical systems for arenas, aquatic centres, fieldhouses, community centres, and other public-use facilities. The specialist works with clients and multidisciplinary teams to develop practical, resilient, energy-efficient solutions that respond to operational needs, life-cycle costs, climate, and community priorities.
Your Key Responsibilities
Lead mechanical engineering and design for new construction, expansion, modernization, and rehabilitation of recreation facilities.
Provide specialist input for arenas and ice plants, aquatic facilities, gymnasiums, fieldhouses, community centres, and multi-use recreation complexes.
Develop and review heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, plumbing, hydronic, heat-recovery, controls, and building automation system designs.
Provide senior technical oversight for the design and renewal of ammonia or carbon-dioxide arena refrigeration systems and associated heat recovery, as applicable to the project.
Provide senior technical oversight for natatorium air systems, humidity control, corrosion-resistant design, pool water treatment and mechanical interfaces, and energy optimization.
Prepare and review design criteria, calculations, drawings, specifications, technical memoranda, reports, cost opinions, and construction documentation.
Lead mechanical system assessments, existing-building investigations, feasibility studies, facility condition reviews, decarbonization studies, and renewal planning, including phased renovations, occupied-facility construction, and operational continuity planning.
Develop high-performance mechanical design strategies incorporating electrification and low-carbon heating, coordinate energy modelling, and support greenhouse-gas reduction planning.
Complete technical reviews and quality-control checks to confirm designs are coordinated, constructible, maintainable, and aligned with applicable codes and standards.
Coordinate mechanical requirements with architecture, structural, electrical, civil, energy, sustainability, and specialty consultants.
Engage facility operators, user groups, municipal representatives, contractors, and other stakeholders to understand operational requirements and resolve technical issues.
Support construction through shop-drawing reviews, responses to requests for information, site reviews, deficiency identification, commissioning support, and closeout.
Support mechanical project delivery under alternative delivery models, including design-build, construction management, and public-private partnerships.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, technologists, and project teams.
Support proposals, interviews, client relationship development, project capture planning, and the growth of the recreation-facility practice.
Contribute lessons learned, technical standards, design tools, and knowledge-sharing across the mechanical and Buildings teams.
Maintain a minimum utilization of 70%.
Travel to project sites, including northern and remote communities, when required.
Qualifications
Your Capabilities and Credentials
Demonstrated experience delivering mechanical systems for arenas, aquatic centres, fieldhouses, community centres, or comparable complex public facilities.
Strong knowledge of building mechanical systems, energy efficiency, system controls, commissioning, constructability, and facility operations.
Experience applying relevant building, fire, plumbing, energy, refrigeration, and occupational health and safety requirements.
Ability to lead technical work, manage competing priorities, coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience with consulting engineering project delivery, fee management, schedules, risk management, proposals, and client service.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a mechanical engineering technologist diploma from an accredited institution is preferred
Registered, or eligible for registration, as a Professional Engineer in the applicable Canadian jurisdiction.
12 or more years of progressive mechanical building-design experience, including substantial work on recreation facilities.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec.
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. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, 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 time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
