Regional Practice Leader - Buildings Northeast - #195903

The Opportunity

As our Buildings business continues to grow across the UK, we are seeking an exceptional Buildings Lead for the Northeast to drive the next phase of our expansion. This is a strategic leadership role for an ambitious engineering leader who combines technical excellence, commercial acumen, and a passion for developing high-performing teams.

You will lead one of the UK's most important regional markets, shaping strategy, growing client relationships, winning major projects, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex multidisciplinary engineering solutions across sectors including commercial, residential, healthcare, defence, higher education and data centres.

At Stantec, we don't just design buildings we create sustainable, resilient and high-performing environments that shape communities and improve lives.

Your Impact

As Buildings Lead, you will provide strategic direction and operational leadership for our Northeast Buildings business, ensuring sustainable growth, technical excellence and exceptional client outcomes.

You will act as the senior representative for the region, building trusted relationships with key clients, partners and stakeholders while creating an environment where our people can thrive.

This is a highly visible leadership position with responsibility for:

• Regional business growth and market development
• Engineering excellence and technical governance
• Project delivery performance
• Client relationship management
• Team leadership and capability development
• Work winning and strategic pursuits
• Profitability and commercial performance
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement the regional Buildings growth strategy for the northeast.
• Identify emerging market opportunities and position Stantec to capture key programmes and frameworks.
• Contribute to the development of the national Buildings business strategy.
• Build Stantec's profile and reputation within the regional market.
• Champion innovation, sustainability and digital transformation across all projects.
  
  

Engineering Leadership & Technical Excellence

• Act as the senior engineering authority for the region.
• Provide technical oversight and governance on complex multidisciplinary projects.
• Promote engineering excellence, quality assurance and best practice across all disciplines.
• Drive innovation in sustainable building design, decarbonisation, net zero strategies and digital delivery.
• Support the development of technical capability across mechanical, electrical, structural, civil, sustainability and specialist engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
  
  

Growth & Client Development

• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with strategic clients.
• Lead major pursuits, bids and framework opportunities.
• Develop long-term account strategies for key clients.
• Identify opportunities for cross-business collaboration and integrated service delivery.
• Represent Stantec at industry events, conferences and client forums.
• Increase market share across priority sectors including commercial, healthcare, defence, science and technology, education, transport and data centres.
  
  

Project Delivery & Commercial Performance

• Provide executive oversight of major projects and programmes.
• Ensure successful delivery against quality, programme, commercial and client objectives.
• Drive project profitability and financial performance across the regional portfolio.
• Monitor resource utilisation and capacity planning.
• Support project teams in resolving complex delivery challenges.
• Promote a culture of accountability, risk management and continuous improvement.
  
  

People & Team Leadership

• Inspire, develop and grow multidisciplinary teams across the region.
• Lead recruitment, succession planning and talent development activities.
• Create an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing culture.
• Mentor senior technical and project leaders.
• Support the development of future leaders within the business.
• Champion employee engagement, wellbeing and professional development.
  
  

About You

You will be an established engineering leader with a proven track record of growing and leading multidisciplinary buildings businesses within a consultancy environment.

Essential

• Degree qualified in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Chartered status (CEng) through an appropriate professional institution.
• Significant leadership experience within a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy.
• Proven track record of winning and delivering major buildings projects and programmes.
• Strong understanding of building engineering design and delivery.
• Demonstrable experience leading large technical teams and complex project portfolios.
• Strong commercial and financial management capability.
• Established client network across the Northeast.
• Experience developing and executing business growth strategies.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience across multiple sectors including healthcare, commercial, residential, defence, and data centres.
• Experience leading regional or national business units.
• Strong profile within the engineering and built environment sector.
• Experience delivering integrated multidisciplinary solutions.
• Knowledge of modern digital engineering and BIM-led delivery approaches.
• Experience supporting business integration activities.
  
  

WHY JOIN US

• We put people first: We're proud of our friendly, inclusive and collaborative environment where everyone feels valued and driven to succeed.
• We are driven to achieve: Named in the top 50 companies to work by Glassdoor 2025. Recognised by Corporate Knights as one of the world's top 10 most sustainable companies 2025. Named ‘Best Place to Work’ and ‘International Consulting Firm of the Year’ at the NCE Awards 2024.
• We do what is right: Industry leading training and development as well as paid for professional subscriptions. A p rofessional progression plan, supporting you to become chartered with ICE.
• We are better together: A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups )
• Growth: We're on an exciting growth journey across the UK & Ireland - we want you to be part of it!
• Great Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus schemes, enhanced pension plan, annual leave with the option to buy/sell additional days, private medical insurance, group income protection & life assurance included as standard as well as discounted gym membership and lots more.
• Flexible working: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with our hybrid approach to flexible working.
  
  

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.