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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Your role:

We are looking for a Graduate Project Manager for our Energy team to be based in the Edinburgh office, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.

You will be working alongside Senior Project Managers and Technical Leaders to understand requirements for projects and supporting them with monitoring progress to meet objectives, forecasting and budgeting.

You will be involved in complex projects from day one, working on a range of projects, including transmission and distribution projects (i.e. substations, overhead lines, cables), in addition to iconic hydro power and pumped storage schemes, conventional and advanced thermal power generation, recycling systems and mining and minerals.

We are established within Engineering, Project and Construction Management (EPCM) and design services for major new build projects such as plastics recycling, renewables power generation and complex treatment/production facilities. We are involved in all stages of the project lifecycle, from concept development and Front End Engineering Design (FEED) through to detailed design and procurement to construction and commissioning. We also provide refurbishment and optimisation advice and design services.

Each day is varied, but your role is targeted to ensure that projects are delivered as efficiently and effectively as possible. Your role will include:

• Team / client meetings

• Financial updates / reporting

• Progress reports

• Health & Safety Management (i.e. RMS1 forms)

• Scheduling / budgeting

• Work closely with electrical and civil engineers

Take a look at our Transmission and Distribution service line:- Transmission & Distribution (stantec.com) and Project Management service line:- Project Management (stantec.com), and review the career journey of the Stantec Transmission and Distribution discipline lead, Sophie Lee, here:- My Stantec Story – Sophie Lee

About you:

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Project or Business Management, and a keen interest in the Energy sector, you'll be:-

• A collaborator: You’ll love to work effectively with lots of different people at different levels, all inputting their part towards a shared goal.

• An adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.

• A planner: Organizing and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.

• A striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You’ll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.

• A multi-tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.

• A problem-solver: You’ll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary

• Private medical insurance

• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance

• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec

• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership

• 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)

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 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.

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Stantec Is An Equal Employer

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long-term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

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