Senior Associate Electrical Engineer - Healthcare - Los Angeles, CA

About the role

Stantec is seeking two Senior Associate Electrical Engineers for Healthcare and a non-healthcare leader who wants to move beyond project execution and actively shape a growing healthcare practice, maintaining & building trusted client relationships, influencing strategy, mentoring teams, and delivering technically excellent projects that improve patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build Trusted Client Relationships & Grow the Practice

• Lead and support business development efforts to win new work aligned with the studio, sector, and firm strategy.

• Serve as a key client contact and trusted advisor, helping healthcare clients navigate technical, regulatory, and operational challenges.

• Partner with Principals and marketing teams on proposals, interviews, and client pursuits, contributing technical insight, market knowledge, client intelligence, and go/no-go input.

• Represent Stantec through industry events, conferences, presentations, and thought leadership.

• Sustain and grow top-line revenue in collaboration with Regional and Business Center leadership to support healthcare growth across Southern California and the US West.

• Nurture existing client relationships, while proactively pursuing opportunities for new business through strong client relationships and market awareness.

• Help identify strategic growth opportunities, develop trusted advisor relationships, and support revenue growth through coordinated pursuit planning and client engagement.

• Own the successful delivery of complex healthcare projects—from early planning through construction—balancing quality, schedule, budget, client satisfaction, risk management, and project financial performance.

• Lead electrical design for healthcare facilities, including power, lighting, nurse call, and fire alarm systems, ensuring compliance with HCAI/OSHPD, NFPA 99, NFPA 110, and California building codes.

• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders, including healthcare providers, regulatory bodies, and internal teams.

• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and resource allocations to ensure successful execution.

• Make sound technical and project delivery decisions, escalating issues appropriately while maintaining accountability for coordinated, high-quality outcomes.

• Engage with external partners, including vendors and regulatory agencies, to ensure compliance and integration of project design.

• Establish strong relationships with healthcare providers, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure design alignment with project objectives.

• Conduct site visits and inspections to ensure project requirements are met.

• Prepare detailed design documents, specifications, and reports.

• Apply strong electrical engineering skills, experience, and knowledge to the design and oversight of the design for building projects.

• Manage and plan the production resources and workflow to produce the design documentation, drawings, and calculations required for electrical engineering projects.

• Act as QC (Quality Control) and/or independent reviewer on projects.

• Review work for technical accuracy, coordination, constructability, and consistency with Stantec standards before deliverables are issued.

• Effectively delegate work to production support staff.

• Develop and deliver project-related client presentations.

• Mentor, lead, and inspire teams.

• Mentor and develop engineers and project leaders, fostering technical excellence, accountability, inclusion, and professional development through formal feedback, goal setting, career planning, and annual review input.

• Provide guidance on staffing strategy, workload balancing, utilization oversight, project planning, workload forecasting, and resource management.

• Participate in recruiting, interviewing, retention, and talent pipeline development to build and sustain a high-performing healthcare electrical engineering team.

• Lead continuous improvement of project delivery processes, technical standards, workflows, and quality practices to improve consistency, performance, and project outcomes.

• Advance Technical Excellence

• Stay current with evolving healthcare regulations, technologies, and best practices—and make decisions that integrate them into Stantec’s standards, tools, and delivery processes.

• Proactively pursue additional knowledge in related disciplines through continuous technical leadership learning.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Health Sector Engineering specifications, technical documentation, and standards in collaboration with other technical resources within Stantec.

• Promote innovative, sustainable, and resilient design solutions that enhance patient, staff, and facility outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in delivering electrical engineering designs within the healthcare sector, with a proven track record of successful project delivery.
• Proven success leading complex healthcare projects and multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated successful experience supervising, mentoring, and developing a unit or group of full-time employees (up to 5), including workload balancing, utilization awareness, performance feedback, goal setting, and career development input.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to navigate complex organizational structures and build consensus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex project aspects, assess variables, and develop reliable design solutions independently.
• Exceptional leadership and team-building skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse group of engineers.
• Proactive mindset with a commitment to fostering an inclusive and collaborative team culture.
• Passion for enhancing healthcare delivery, creating healing environments, and driving innovative engineering solutions.
• Strong understanding and application of project management principles, including task-level scope tracking, budget monitoring, change management, commercial risk awareness, and proactive communication with project leadership.
• Strong knowledge of applicable codes and standards, including California building codes, HCAI/OSHPD regulations, UL, NFPA, IEEE requirements as they specifically apply to Hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and medical office buildings.
• Current experience and familiarity with HCAI design for Acute and Non-Acute environments.
• Exceptional technical understanding and working knowledge of electrical building systems & site infrastructure.
• Ability to develop concepts and ideas before evolving them into coordinated project deliverables.
• Experience identifying and managing project risks, potential scope changes, budget impacts, and opportunities to protect project financial performance.
• Functional knowledge of Revit and BIM workflows.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Bluebeam.