Design & Engineering Delivery Assistant Consultant (PMO) - Energy | Expression of Interest

We have an exciting opportunities in the pipeline to join our growing Advisory Services team within Energy & Resources, helping some of the UK's largest infrastructure and utility organisations deliver complex capital programmes and transformational change.

We're particularly keen to hear from candidates for future opportunities ideally based in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow or Edinburgh, although applications are welcome from across our UK office network. Travel to client sites and other Stantec locations may be required.

At Stantec, we bring together expertise across business consulting, engineering, programme management, digital delivery and transformation. Our Advisory team works at the heart of major infrastructure programmes, helping clients improve performance, strengthen governance, build capability and deliver better outcomes for the communities they serve.

With a strong track record across the Energy, Water and Transport sectors, and increasing demand from our clients, this is an excellent opportunity to develop your consulting career while supporting some of the UK's most significant investment programmes.

About the Role

As an Design & Engineering Delivery Assistant Consultant, you'll work alongside experienced consultants and client teams, supporting the delivery of major projects and programmes throughout the project lifecycle. You'll gain exposure to a broad range of advisory services, helping clients improve the way projects are governed, assured and delivered.

Your work may involve supporting project governance, design assurance, technical coordination, reporting, action management, change control and continuous improvement activities within complex delivery environments.

Working across client environments and advisory assignments, you'll:

• Support the delivery of projects and programmes from early development and design through to construction, commissioning and handover.
• Help review, improve and implement project delivery processes, controls and ways of working.
• Coordinate governance and assurance activities, including tracking actions, managing evidence and supporting decision-making processes.
• Support the management of project information through common data environments and other project systems.
• Assist clients in managing scope, risks, assumptions, dependencies and change throughout the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to the effective application of NEC contract processes, including early warnings, compensation events and change management.
• Support planning, cost, risk, commercial and performance management activities through data gathering, analysis and reporting.
• Develop reports, dashboards and governance packs that provide clear insight to project and programme stakeholders.
• Facilitate collaboration across technical teams, contractors, suppliers and client organisations.
• Support organisational change initiatives, capability-building programmes and the adoption of new ways of working.
• Contribute to project reviews, assurance activities and governance assessments.

You'll work closely with colleagues across our Advisory Services business, supporting clients to strengthen their capability and successfully deliver large-scale investment programmes. As part of Stantec's wider Advisory community, you'll also have the opportunity to explore different service areas and build a diverse consulting career supported by structured development, training and mentoring.

Your Impact

You'll play an important role in helping our clients deliver major infrastructure and energy programmes more effectively. Working alongside experienced consultants and delivery teams, you'll help coordinate project information, support governance and assurance activities, improve project controls and contribute to better decision-making across complex programmes.

This is an opportunity to build broad consulting and project delivery experience while supporting projects that shape how communities are powered, connected and served. As your experience grows, you'll gain exposure to a wide range of advisory disciplines, developing the skills, knowledge and confidence to make a meaningful contribution to some of the UK's most significant investment programmes.

About You

We're interested in hearing from candidates who have already started building their experience within project or programme delivery environments, ideally across infrastructure, engineering, utilities, consultancy or other regulated sectors.

This opportunity is well suited to someone who is at the beginning of their career journey and looking to develop their consulting and project delivery expertise. You may have gained experience through a graduate scheme, project support role, PMO environment, engineering team or consultancy setting and are now looking for an opportunity to broaden your experience and take on greater responsibility.

You may have started your career in project management, PMO, engineering, design coordination, project controls, assurance, governance or a similar project delivery discipline. We're particularly interested in candidates with an engineering background, ideally supported by a degree in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.

You'll have a growing understanding of how projects progress from early development and design through procurement, construction, commissioning and handover. While you won't be expected to have led these activities independently, you'll be eager to learn, develop your capability and gain experience supporting the successful delivery of complex projects and programmes.

You'll also bring:

• Experience supporting project delivery activities such as reporting, action tracking, meeting coordination, risk management, change control or document management.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage information accurately across multiple workstreams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to work with clients, technical specialists and project stakeholders.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly in reporting, tracking and structured documentation.
• An analytical and inquisitive mindset, with a desire to understand challenges, identify improvements and contribute practical solutions.
• The ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and dynamic project environments.

Experience in design assurance, requirements management, interface management, governance, common data environments, project controls or digital delivery tools would be advantageous, but is not essential.

Ideally, you'll be working towards, or interested in pursuing, a relevant professional qualification such as APM, NEC or a related project delivery accreditation. We'll support your development through training, mentoring and opportunities to build experience across our Advisory Services practice.

If you're looking to build your career in consulting while helping deliver some of the UK's most important energy and infrastructure programmes, we'd love to hear from you.