Senior Air Quality and Climate Change Consultant

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties worldwide and are devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.

Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment.
 

Your Opportunity

Solve the problems others avoid.
At Stantec, our Air Quality and Climate Change team is brought in when the path forward is unclear—when regulations conflict, precedent is weak, or the consequences of getting it wrong are high. Our work is less about producing standard deliverables and more about helping clients think clearly, manage risk, and make defensible decisions in complex regulatory environments.
We are seeking a senior level consultant and trusted advisor who is motivated by ambiguity, judgment, and influence—someone who wants to shape outcomes, not just complete scopes of work.
This role is oriented toward problem solving, judgment, and influence, not checklist delivery.
You will work with sophisticated public- and private sector clients who rely on experienced consultants to interpret uncertainty, weigh tradeoffs, and recommend practical paths forward related to air quality, climate change, permitting, and regulatory risk. You will develop trust to help define the right questions before solutions are selected.

This position is well suited for an experienced seller doer professional who:

• Enjoys tackling ill-defined or high-risk regulatory challenges
• Is comfortable exercising independent professional judgment
• Wants to influence both project direction and practice growth
• Sees business development as solution building, not sales
• Can balance technical rigor with business, schedule, and stakeholder realities

Your Key Responsibilities

What You’ll Do
Solve Complex Regulatory and Technical Problems

• Frame and lead resolution of high consequence air quality and climate challenges, where the right answer is not obvious and professional judgment is essential.
• Interpret and apply regulatory language where rules are evolving, overlapping, or unclear, helping clients navigate risk and uncertainty.
• Integrate technical analyses (modeling, HRA, GHG) into clear, defensible recommendations, not just reports.
• Serve as a senior technical voice in client and agency discussions where outcomes depend on credibility, reasoning, and judgment.

Guide Clients and Shape Decisions

• Act as a trusted advisor, helping clients understand implications, options, and tradeoffs rather than simply presenting results.
• Support clients through permitting, compliance, and climate related decisions that affect schedules, capital investment, public scrutiny, and long term operations.
• Elevate conversations from “what do we have to do?” to “what’s the most defensible and practical way forward?”
• Help clients understand risk, uncertainty, and options, rather than simply presenting results

Shape Work, Clients, and the Practice

• Identify and pursue opportunities where Stantec’s insight and experience create real value.
• Develop approaches and proposals that are tailored, thoughtful, and strategy driven, not template based.
• Collaborate across Stantec practices to bring integrated solutions to complex air quality and climate challenges.

Contribute to Growth and Strategy

• Identify and pursue opportunities where Stantec can help clients solve meaningful air quality and climate problems.
• Develop technical approaches and proposals that are thoughtful, tailored, and insight driven, not formulaic.
• Collaborate with other Stantec practices to deliver integrated, multi disciplinary solutions.

Mentor and Lead Through Thinking, Not Task Tracking

• Guide and mentor staff by teaching how to reason through complex problems, prioritize risks, and make
• defensible decisions.
• Provide technical oversight focused on quality, clarity, and reasoning, not just completion.
• Foster a culture that values critical thinking, accountability, and professional growth.

What Sets This Role Apart

• Emphasis on problem framing and judgment, not just execution
• Exposure to complex, high impact decisions across industries
• Authority to shape technical strategy and client direction
• Work that rewards curiosity, insight, and experience - not templates

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• As a Senior Seller-doer, you will identify and develop new opportunities, prepare compelling technical proposals, and assume an active leadership role in cultivating new business with both new and existing clients. Ability to exercise independent judgement to resolve complex problems, analyze issues, interpret information, and select methods and solutions.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts.
• Work effectively and collaboratively with project teams, employees, management, contractors, and consultants in a professional setting.
• High level knowledge of air quality models, including CalEEMod, EMFAC, OFFROAD, CALINE4, AERMOD, CAL3QHCR, ISCST3, AERSCREEN and SCREEN3.
• High level knowledge of local, state, and federal air quality rules and regulations including district regulatory programs, the federal Clean Air Act, and greenhouse gas regulations.
• Direct experience with the rules, programs and permitting landscape of air districts in your local geography.
• High level knowledge of air quality impact analyses, health risk assessment methodologies, and greenhouse gas analyses.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced consulting environment and handle multiple assignments simultaneously, adhering to project budgets and schedules is essential.
• Strong MS Office computer skills; advanced understanding of Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. VBA experience is a plus.
• Position requires strict adherence to health and safety procedures, good organization skills, strong written and verbal communication skills, and a passion for high quality of work.
• Must have a good driving record and valid Driver's License.
• Prior to employment with Stantec the candidate may be required to successfully pass a physical and drug/alcohol screening, if applicable. 

Education and Credentials
What You Bring
10+ years of consulting experience in air quality, climate change, or related environmental disciplines.
Deep understanding of federal, state, and local air quality regulatory frameworks and how they interact in practice.
Experience applying air quality models (e.g., AERMOD, AERSCREEN, CALINE4, EMFAC, OFFROAD, CAL3QHCR, ISCST3) as part of decision making, not just compliance.
A track record of navigating complex regulatory environments and advising clients on risk, strategy, and outcomes.
Local experience and relationships.
Strong communication skills and comfort leading conversations with clients, agencies, and internal teams.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental science, or a related field (advanced degree or professional registration preferred).
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

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.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

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