At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Your Opportunity
The Employee Communications Team Lead will develop and implement communications strategies that reach the hearts and minds of our people through meaningful communication experiences that inspire action and support our long-term business strategy.

Your key responsibilities

Develop and support impactful communications plans, including creative campaign concepts, implementation approaches, and timelines.

Lead and develop a team of communication professionals, providing coaching, direction, performance feedback, and support to foster engagement, growth, and high performance.

Manage partnerships and relationships across the business, specifically within our North Amer, to align practices to successful outcomes.

Create compelling content across channels, including email, intranet articles, blogs, and video briefs, adapting messages for different audiences and formats.

Build a deep understanding of audience needs and operational priorities, including language considerations, to deliver targeted and effective communications.

Lead the planning, delivery, and ongoing management of newsletters, town halls, and other key communication moments.

Build strong, trusted relationships with leaders and internal partners to enable clear, effective, and timely communications.

Mentor team members and interns, demonstrating both knowledge and expertise

Identify and shape key issues and messages by gathering, analyzing, and integrating information from multiple and sometimes competing sources.





Identify opportunities for standardization, and support processes that drive consistency and efficiency when it comes to communications across our North America operations.

Communicate with purpose to inform, engage, build alignment, and support meaningful behavior change.

Confidently manage multiple priorities, assessing urgency and impact while maintaining quality and accuracy.

Monitor and measure the effectiveness of communications across channels, using insights to inform future decisions.

Collaborate closely with the rest of our marketing, communications, and public relations organization, including our graphic design and video teams, digital teams responsible for our intranet content, leadership and functional communications team and others.

Capabilities and Credentials

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Detail-oriented and organized, with exceptional prioritization skills

Ability to communicate with partners of all levels

Strong organizational and project coordination skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing environments

Excellent collaboration and strategic planning skills

Ability to work with a team, as well as independently and with minimal supervision

Demonstrated proficiency with web-based tools and Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Experience working within another large organization is considered an asset

Education/Experience

Post-secondary degree in communications, public relations, English, journalism, or marketing preferred





7+ years’ progressive experience working in a communications-related role for large, complex organizations

A minimum of 3 years in a people leadership role.

Pay Range

Locations in PEI-$81,000.00 - $121,500.00 Annually

Locations Outside of Lower Mainland - BC & Various locations in Ontario-$90,000.00 - $135,000.00 Annually

Locations in Lower Mainland - BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario-$95,400.00 - $143,100.00 Annually

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.

Primary Location: Canada | AB | Edmonton

Other Locations: Canada | SK | Saskatoon

Organization: BC-1186 Marketing & Comms-CA Employee Comms

Employee Status: Regular

Business Justification: New Position

Travel: No

Schedule: Full time

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📌 Employee Communications Team Lead, North America (Saskatchewan)
🏢 Stantec.
📍 Saskatchewan