Emergency Management Specialist – Project Manager

Stantec•Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Stantec is seeking an Emergency Management Specialist – Project Manager to join its U.S. Emergency Management Practice, supporting work across Northern California. The role focuses on managing and delivering active, multi-year emergency management and resilience programs for critical infrastructure owners, while supporting growth with other agencies and regional utilities. The position combines project management and technical contribution, with responsibility for delivering client work, building trusted relationships, and supporting expanded engagement across the practice. The successful candidate will integrate into an ongoing, large-scale programmatic emergency management contract and take on increasing responsibility for coordination, client engagement, delivery leadership, and quality control. They will oversee projects and contribute to client-ready plans, exercises, reports, assessments, and other emergency management and resilience products. The role also involves collaboration with infrastructure teams and supporting business development and sales efforts. The position is based in a typical office environment, working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods. Field work may involve exposure to the elements, including inclement weather.

Requirements

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.
At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in emergency management, resilience planning, infrastructure operations, or a closely related field, applied to large-scale critical infrastructure systems.
Senior-level experience delivering emergency management and resilience services for critical infrastructure such as water, energy, transportation, or other large, regulated assets.
Experience managing projects and supporting programmatic delivery, including multidisciplinary team coordination and responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
Working knowledge of emergency management frameworks and standards, including ICS, NIMS, SEMS, FEMA’s HSEEP, and continuity planning principles.
Experience developing client-ready emergency management and resilience deliverables, including EOPs, EAPs, COOPs, and training and exercise programs.
Strong facilitation, communication, and client engagement skills, including experience working directly with senior-level stakeholders.
Ability to produce clear, concise, technically sound written deliverables for complex, regulated environments.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Experience supporting public agencies, utilities, or infrastructure owner-operators in complex regulatory and operational environments.
Valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving record.

Nice To Haves

Staff management experience, including supervising, mentoring, and developing professional staff.
Relevant professional certifications, such as CEM, MEP, PMP, or equivalent credentials.

Responsibilities

Manage delivery of emergency management and resilience projects for critical infrastructure, including scope, schedule, budget, staffing, and performance.
Support execution of an ongoing, large-scale programmatic emergency management contract, with growing responsibility for coordination, client engagement, delivery leadership, and quality control.
Serve as a client-facing point of contact for day-to-day coordination and facilitate meetings, workshops, and exercises with client stakeholders.
Build and maintain working relationships with infrastructure owners, agencies, utilities, and regional partners.
Develop and review client-ready Emergency Action Plans, Emergency Operations Plans, Continuity of Operations Plans, discussion- and operations-based exercises, after-action reports, program and capability assessments, and related products.
Collaborate with infrastructure teams to integrate emergency management and resilience services into projects and proposals involving critical infrastructure systems, including dams and reservoirs, conveyance systems, power generation, SCADA, and control systems.
Identify opportunities to expand scope by aligning emergency management services with engineering, operations, and asset management services.
Support business development and sales by identifying and qualifying opportunities, strengthening client relationships, and contributing to account and capture planning.
Lead or support proposals, interviews, and other pursuit activities; collaborate across business lines to cross-sell capabilities and expand services.
Maintain accurate opportunity information in the client relationship management platform and support converting client relationships into repeat and new work.
Potentially supervise, mentor, and develop professional staff.