At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Your Opportunity

The Communications Specialist plays a vital role within our Employee Communications team, helping us reach the hearts and minds of our people through meaningful communication experiences that inspire action and support our long-term business strategy.

In this role, you will help shape and deliver communications that connect our people to one another—and to our purpose—so they clearly understand how their work brings Stantec’s Strategic Plan and brand to life every day.

You’ll be part of a newly established team within Employee Communications focused on operational communications within North America. This is a dynamic, multifaceted role that partners closely with our business operating units, regional organization, and leaders across Canada and the United States. You’ll bring your creativity, authenticity, and strategic thinking to your work, while also helping influence best practices and improve how we communicate at scale.

This role thrives in a fast-paced, complex environment where priorities can shift quickly. It calls for strong initiative, sound judgment, efficiency, flexibility, attention to detail, and the ability to navigate sensitive information with care.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Develop and support impactful communications plans, including creative campaign concepts, implementation approaches, and timelines.

• Create compelling content across channels, including email, intranet articles, blogs, and video briefs, adapting messages for different audiences and formats.

• Build a deep understanding of audience needs and operational priorities, including language considerations, to deliver targeted and effective communications.

• Support the planning, delivery, and ongoing management of newsletters, town halls, and other key communication moments.

• Build strong, trusted relationships with leaders and internal partners to enable clear, effective, and timely communications.

• Identify and shape key issues and messages by gathering, analyzing, and integrating information from multiple and sometimes competing sources.

• Help identify opportunities for standardization, and support processes that drive consistency and efficiency when it comes to communications across our North America operations.

• Communicate with purpose to inform, engage, build alignment, and support meaningful behavior change.

• Confidently manage multiple priorities, assessing urgency and impact while maintaining quality and accuracy.

• Monitor and measure the effectiveness of communications across channels, using insights to inform future decisions.

• Collaborate closely with the rest of our marketing, communications, and public relations organization, including our graphic design and video teams, digital teams responsible for our intranet content, leadership and functional communications team and others.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Detail-oriented and organized, with exceptional prioritization skills

• Ability to communicate with partners of all levels

• Strong organizational and project coordination skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing environments

• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with a team, as well as independently and with minimal supervision

• Demonstrated proficiency with web-based tools and Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Experience working within another large organization is considered an asset.

Education and Experience

• Post-secondary degree in communications, public relations, English, journalism, or marketing preferred

• 3 to 5 years’ experience working in a communications-related role.

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

Primary Location: United States | TX | Texas City
Organization: BC-1986 Marketing & Comms-US Corporate
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 23/03/2026 02:03:19
Req ID: 1004958

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.