Stantec Buildings is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. We take an innovative, collaborative approach to projects, sharing a common belief that sustainable design for the built environment can make the world a better place for future generations. Join us and design your place with Stantec.  

Your Opportunity

Stantec’s Sports & Recreation group seeks Principal Leader to join our team in British Columbia. The ideal candidate will have experience in all phases of planning and design with strong business development attributes. Our clients consist of cities and municipalities across North America. Being a Global company, you will routinely be collaborating with colleagues from across the United States and Canada.

The successful candidate will lead an integrated team of architects and engineers to design innovative and thoughtful engineering. As part of this role, you will be developing existing and new client relationships, mentoring younger staff and contributing to our growth and success in our Sports & Recreation market and diversifying our client and project base. We are looking for teammates who can create and foster solutions, maintain a fast-paced mindset, and are interested in growing with our world class team of designers and planners.

Your Key Responsibilities 

• Sustain and grow revenue within the Sports & Recreation market, helping to achieve top line growth for the business sector, and working collaboratively with the project team to achieve key operational performance metrics.

• Develop approximately $3M per year of top line revenue within the Sports and Recreation market.

• Lead a team consisting of planners, architects, and engineers for projects and portions of projects.

• Lead project teams on large scale projects, responsible for technical execution and discipline coordination of the project.

• Work with teams across multiple Stantec offices.

• Play a key leadership role and be an essential part of a project team working on all phases of design projects from Programming and Schematic Design through Construction Administration.

• Contribute to firm-wide initiatives to help advance our Sports & Recreation project design, operations, and business development.

• Play the role of a seller-doer generating work, creating long-term relationships and delivering long-term value to clients for Stantec. 

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Extensive Sports & Recreation (both in size and diversity) that will support the ability to win work during proposal response

• Multidisciplinary buildings engineering and architecture experience in Sports & Recreation.

• Knowledge of building codes, standards, building construction, and building systems with specific knowledge of sports & recreation building requirements.

• Demonstrated technical skills on major and technically complex projects.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Strong business development skills, including significant experience building and maintaining productive relationships with a client base (such experience within a consulting organization in Western Canada is considered a strong asset).

• Exceptional organization, leadership, communication, and team-building skills.

• An entrepreneurial orientation with strong understanding of the business development challenges of a consulting-services provider.

• Proven success in developing new clients and maintaining strong client relationships.

• Familiarity with industry trends and industry leaders in the Sports & Recreation sector across the country.

• Demonstrated capability to lead teams working on projects documented in Revit or AutoCAD.

• Demonstrated experience in working on LEED certified Sports & Recreation projects with other sustainability goals/credentials. Having a LEED credential is a plus.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture & registration as an Architect. 

• 15+ years of experience working with multi-discipline teams with a minimum of ten (10) years related Sports and Rec.

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. Principal, Sports & Recreation

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Pay Range:

• Locations in Lower Mainland - BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario-$122,600.00 - $184,000.00 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 | BC | Vancouver
Organization: 1443 Buildings-CA British Columbia-Vancouver BC
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 05/02/2026 10:02:22
Req ID: 1004012