Lead Resident Engineer.

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The Role:This role leads resident engineering work on a multi-year water transmission system program and oversees construction contract administration for large water infrastructure projects.
The Person:The person will oversee construction contracts, monitor contractor cost, schedule, and quality, review payment applications and change orders, manage field office staff, and coordinate issue resolution with program, design, operations, and other stakeholders.
Requirements:The role requires supervising Resident Engineers, administering construction contracts, and handling contract documents, specifications, applicable codes and standards, payment applications, change orders, and required reports.

About the role

Lead Resident Engineer

The Lead Resident Engineer will supervise activities related to a multi-year, > $1 billion (USD) water transmission system program in the Chicagoland area by managing a portfolio of construction contracts for large water supply infrastructure projects. With help from several Resident Engineers, the Lead Resident Engineer will be responsible for administering multiple construction contracts, monitoring cost, schedule and quality of the Construction Contractor’s work, and establishing that construction work is completed in conformance with the requirements of the contract documents.

Your Key Responsibilities

The Lead Resident Engineer, under the supervision of the Construction Manager, will be responsible for the following on their assigned portfolio of construction contracts:

Supervising Resident Engineers (REs) and other assigned personnel; filling in for REs as necessary.
Ensuring that construction work is performed in accordance with contract documents, specifications and applicable codes and standards.
Overseeing the day-to-day activities related to construction management administrative and financial matters including record keeping, processing of periodic payments, drafting of field change orders, negotiation of change orders, general correspondence, and compiling and drafting of required reports.
Ensuring that safety protocols are followed.
Overseeing the process for review of Contractor’s payment applications, including recommending appropriate adjustments as necessary based on work completed.
Reviewing and evaluating potential items of extra work and preparation of justifications and cost estimates.
Monitoring and reporting on Contractor(s) performance, schedule compliance, overall responsiveness, and effectiveness.
Oversight of CM Field Office staff, which may include sub-consultants, including timekeeping practices, training and development, mentoring, and rewarding exceptional performance.
Acting as liaison to program and design staff for resolution of issues.
Coordinating the construction work with facility operations, maintenance, police, other contractors and other stakeholders.
Ensuring that non-conformances are satisfactorily resolved for close out of contracts.

Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.

Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.

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) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, 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 family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Published July 27, 2026

Location Chicago, IL

Category None

Job Type Full-Time

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