Principal Biologist
Your Opportunity
Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, Stantec brings together more than 35,000 professionals worldwide who are passionate about solving complex environmental, engineering and design challenges and shaping resilient communities. We believe the best solutions emerge when technical excellence, creativity, diversity, and collaboration come together—and when experienced leaders are empowered to make a lasting impact in the communities they serve.
Stantec is seeking a Principal level Biologist to play a key leadership role in the continued growth of our Los Angeles Metropolitan Market. This is an opportunity for an accomplished consulting biologist to help shape market strategy, expand client relationships, mentor future leaders, and influence how our Natural Resources Assessment and Permitting services are delivered across Southern California.
This role is ideal for someone energized by the opportunity to lead from the front —building teams, strengthening client partnerships, and contributing to some of the region’s most visible and impactful utility, energy, infrastructure, and public sector programs.
Why This Role at Stantec
As a Principal Biologist, You Will Join a Highly Collaborative, Multidisciplinary Team And Serve As Both a Technical Leader And Market Champion. You Will Have The Opportunity To
What You Will Do
Responsibilities
As a Principal Biologist, you will help lead, grow, and inspire a dynamic team while advancing Stantec’s presence in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Market. Your responsibilities will include:
The role has a target 65–75% direct project utilization, balancing project delivery with leadership, mentorship, and growth activities.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
You are an accomplished consulting biologist and leader with 15+ years of progressive experience delivering complex projects and guiding teams, clients, and regulatory processes. You bring a balance of technical depth, strategic thinking, and relationship building, and are motivated by opportunities to grow people, programs, and markets.
Key Qualifications Include
BS (MS preferred) in Biology or a related field.
Ability to travel occasionally within and outside Southern California.
Valid driver’s license and good driving record.
Ability to work in both office and field environments, including occasional exposure to inclement weather.
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.
\#StayInquisitive
Pay Range
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 | CA | Monrovia
Organization: BC-1858 EnvSvcs-US West S California
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 10/03/2026 08:03:40
Req ID: 1004817
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.
Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, Stantec brings together more than 35,000 professionals worldwide who are passionate about solving complex environmental, engineering and design challenges and shaping resilient communities. We believe the best solutions emerge when technical excellence, creativity, diversity, and collaboration come together—and when experienced leaders are empowered to make a lasting impact in the communities they serve.
Stantec is seeking a Principal level Biologist to play a key leadership role in the continued growth of our Los Angeles Metropolitan Market. This is an opportunity for an accomplished consulting biologist to help shape market strategy, expand client relationships, mentor future leaders, and influence how our Natural Resources Assessment and Permitting services are delivered across Southern California.
This role is ideal for someone energized by the opportunity to lead from the front —building teams, strengthening client partnerships, and contributing to some of the region’s most visible and impactful utility, energy, infrastructure, and public sector programs.
Why This Role at Stantec
As a Principal Biologist, You Will Join a Highly Collaborative, Multidisciplinary Team And Serve As Both a Technical Leader And Market Champion. You Will Have The Opportunity To
- Help grow and shape the Los Angeles Metropolitan Market, aligning technical excellence with strategic business growth.
- Work alongside experts across environmental sciences, engineering, planning, and design on complex, high profile projects.
- Recruit, mentor and develop talent, helping build a strong and sustainable Natural Resources practice.
- Continue to learn, innovate, and expand your professional influence, supported by regional and global networks of expertise.
What You Will Do
Responsibilities
As a Principal Biologist, you will help lead, grow, and inspire a dynamic team while advancing Stantec’s presence in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Market. Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing strategic and technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams delivering natural resource, permitting, and environmental compliance projects.
- Serving as a trusted advisor to staff, clients and regulatory agencies, proactively identifying risks, mitigation, opportunities, and solutions.
- Shaping and expanding key client programs, particularly within utility, energy, infrastructure, and public sector markets.
- Anticipating emerging technical and regulatory challenges and translating insight into proactive strategies that address evolving market, business, regulatory, risk, and economic drivers.
- Promoting new ideas and initiatives, fostering an environment that encourages creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement across teams, projects and programs.
- Leading and contributing to business development efforts, including networking, proposal development, scoping, budgeting, risk management, and relationship building.
- Mentoring and supporting staff through technical guidance, professional development, recruitment, and succession planning.
- Overseeing biological fieldwork, regulatory strategy, and CEQA/NEPA analyses, ensuring high quality, defensible deliverables.
- Collaborating across teams to share best practices, innovate delivery approaches, and support continuous improvement.
- Manage tasks and projects in accordance with approved scopes of work, delivering high quality reports on schedule and within budget, while ensuring consistency with Stantec’s Project Management Framework and ISO certified Integrated Management System (IMS).
- Championing Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) policies and fostering a culture of safety, support, and accountability.
The role has a target 65–75% direct project utilization, balancing project delivery with leadership, mentorship, and growth activities.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
You are an accomplished consulting biologist and leader with 15+ years of progressive experience delivering complex projects and guiding teams, clients, and regulatory processes. You bring a balance of technical depth, strategic thinking, and relationship building, and are motivated by opportunities to grow people, programs, and markets.
Key Qualifications Include
- Demonstrated excellence in client engagement, including building trusted advisor relationships, understanding client business drivers, project risks, and delivering strategic, technically sound solutions that support long term programs.
- Strong communication skills with clients, regulators, technical teams, and the public.
- Proven leadership in project delivery, collaboration, technical performance, and continuous improvement.
- Advanced analytical skills, including interpretation of scientific data and technical documentation.
- Extensive knowledge of Southern California flora, fauna, and regulatory frameworks, with broader regional experience a plus.
- Significant experience preparing and overseeing biological technical reports and supporting CEQA/NEPA compliance.
- Deep familiarity with federal, state, and local environmental regulations and permitting processes.
- Demonstrated experience leading environmental permitting for energy, pipeline, and linear infrastructure projects.
- Experience supporting construction activities, compliance monitoring, environmental training, and post construction reporting.
- Ability to travel occasionally, hold a valid driver’s license with a good driving record, and meet project specific medical and drug/alcohol screening requirements, as applicable.
- Preferred qualifications include experience working with utility clients such as SCE and SoCalGas, possession of relevant permits (e.g., Scientific Collecting Permit), and OSHA HAZWOPER 40 hour certification.
BS (MS preferred) in Biology or a related field.
Ability to travel occasionally within and outside Southern California.
Valid driver’s license and good driving record.
Ability to work in both office and field environments, including occasional exposure to inclement weather.
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.
\#StayInquisitive
Pay Range
- Locations in WA, DC & Various CA, MA areas-$120,400.00 - $180,500.00 Annually
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 | CA | Monrovia
Organization: BC-1858 EnvSvcs-US West S California
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 10/03/2026 08:03:40
Req ID: 1004817
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.