Municipal Infrastructure Lead, Western Canada

Calgary, AB

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Municipal Infrastructure Lead, Western Canada!

Your work environment at EXP

As one of Canada’s largest and most reputable privately held engineering and architecture firms, EXP is extremely proud to offer a full suite of multidisciplinary consulting services to our clients. We are also 100% employee-owned, which gives us great flexibility to make many key business decisions at a local level. 
As we continue to grow our business and enhance our service offerings locally, we are eagerly seeking a highly motivated Municipal Team Leader to join our Calgary team. 

In this role, you will have the ability to grow a business unit while you collaborate seamlessly with EXP’s multidisciplinary team from our four Western Canadian offices and ninety offices across North America on some of region’s most exciting infrastructure projects! If desired, you will also be given the opportunity to work on some very unique and challenging projects from across North America and abroad.

Your Role & Responsibilities:

Supported by our significant Land Development and Civil Engineering Infrastructure Teams in Calgary, build a team of professionals to meet the consulting needs of municipalities, with a particular focus on Southern Alberta.

Client Delivery

• Manage complex projects for municipalities in Western Canada and advise them on municipal best practices.
• Coordinate the planning, design, and construction management of civil/municipal infrastructure projects involving site grading, site development, street reconstruction, water distribution, wastewater collection, stormwater management, parking, and active transportation.
• Collaborate with a multidiscipline project team and engage with a variety of stakeholders including owners, contractors, sub-consultants, operations staff, utilities, businesses, and the public.
• Participate in and potentially certify and/or validate engineering designs for roads, water/wastewater, stormwater, and active transportation projects.
• Oversee construction administration, site inspections, and QA/QC compliance.
• Ensure that project needs (particularly budgets and schedules) are met in a timely and effective manner.
• Navigate regulatory frameworks such as Water Act, Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, OH&S, and municipal bylaws.

Discipline Leadership

• Own Western Canada Municipal Infrastructure P&L: revenue, margin, backlog, and utilization targets.
• Develop and execute a growth strategy considering urban expansion, regional servicing, municipal revitalization, and climate resilience among others.
• Drive business development: proposals, key account management, and strategic partnerships with municipalities.
• Implement quality and safety standards, risk management, and stage-gate reviews for all projects.
  Recruit, mentor, and retain top talent; ensure succession planning for all staff.
• Champion innovation: low-impact development (LID), digital delivery, and asset management solutions.

Performance Metrics

• Discipline revenue growth and margin performance.
• Backlog coverage and proposal win rate.
• Client satisfaction and repeat business.
• Employee engagement and retention.
• Quality, safety and regulatory compliance.
• Working Conditions.
• Calgary-based with travel to clients and project locations in Western Canada as needed.
• Hybrid office/field; occasional evening council or public meetings.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering; degree in business is an asset.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registered with APEGA and the ability to register in other Western Canadian Provinces.
• 10–15+ years of municipal consulting experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven success in municipal projects and familiarity with municipal and provincial standards and regulatory requirements.
• Strong client relationship management and political awareness.  Ability to demonstrate strong interpersonal working relationships with the pool of potential clients is an asset.
• Leadership in team development and culture building.
• Excellent communication for council presentations and public engagement.
• Ability to integrate climate resilience and sustainability into municipal designs.

What EXP Can Offer:

• Competitive salary and full range of benefits.
• Access to leading edge software and technology.
• Eligibility to participate in company performance-based bonus programs and share ownership.
• Vibrant, highly functional, and collaborative working environment.
• Flexible work hours and location.
• Career advancement opportunities.
• Opportunity to work on a diverse range of local, regional, national, and international projects.

With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments.

Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its engineering infrastructure practice. Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

What makes us different

The passion, enthusiasm, diversity and industry-leading capabilities of our employees make us who we are. We’re committed to providing a challenging work environment that cultivates career growth, encourages creativity and rewards excellence.