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Reporting to the Senior Manager, Operations Engineering, the Lead Engineer, Operations owns engineering performance across an assigned portfolio of assets and serves as the first formal management layer within the Operations Engineering model.\nThe role leads and develops Operations Engineering staff, aligns technical priorities, risk, investment, and resources across the portfolio, and ensures asset teams receive a coherent and effective engineering response.\nThe Lead Engineer retains sufficient technical depth to challenge, coach, and assure work, but success is primarily achieved through people, prioritization, delegation, reporting, budgeting, and cross-functional alignment rather than personally executing every technical issue.\nThis is a full-time position based out of our Calgary, Alberta office. Regular travel to operating sites is expected to maintain field engagement, support asset health activities, and build strong relationships with site leadership teams.\nYou Will:\nLead engineering performance across assigned assets, maintaining visibility of asset health, material technical issues, recurring failures, and operational risks. Ensure clear technical ownership is in place and that significant issues receive the right level of engineering response, specialist support, and leadership attention.\nLead the development and prioritization of multi-year maintenance capital, reliability, risk-reduction, and optimization needs. Assess problem statements, options, scope, value, timing, and investment priorities to provide clear recommendations that support asset performance and business needs.\nLead and develop Operations Engineering staff by setting clear expectations, delegating outcomes, providing ongoing feedback and coaching, and managing commitments. Identify capability, staffing, coverage, and succession needs while building technical judgement and ownership within the team.\nManage engineering budgets, forecasts, resources, and priorities across the portfolio. Balance capacity across assets, monitor budget performance, and recommend appropriate trade-offs when competing priorities or demand exceed available resources.\nProvide clear reporting on portfolio health, material risks, delivery, investment needs, resource constraints, and key decisions required. Lead portfolio reviews to prioritize work, resolve conflicts, remove barriers, and maintain accountability for deliverables.\nBuild strong relationships across Operations, Projects, Engineering, Integrity, Maintenance, EHS, Process Safety, Commercial, and other key functions to align technical priorities and ensure a coordinated engineering approach across the portfolio.\nMaintain high standards for technical rigour, documentation, checking, peer review, assurance, and accountability. Determine when additional specialist support, independent review, or leadership escalation is required and address recurring technical or governance gaps.\nYou Have:\nBachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. Other disciplines will be considered with applicable experience, notably Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering.\n12+ years of oil and gas industry experience, including substantial experience supporting operating assets.\nPrevious technical leadership, team-lead, supervisory, or people-management experience is considered an asset.\nExperience with capital planning, portfolio prioritization, budgeting, resource planning, or management reporting is considered an asset.\nProfessional designation P.Eng., P.L. (Eng.), or P.Tech. (Eng.) registered with APEGA.\nA practical and credible leadership style, with the ability to navigate technical, operational, business, and people discussions.\nStrong communication and judgement, with the ability to challenge assumptions, build constructive relationships, and provide clear, decision-ready recommendations.\nEffective people leadership skills, including setting expectations, delegating, coaching, and holding people accountable.\nThe ability to balance competing priorities, make sound trade-offs, and stay focused on material risk and business value in a dynamic operating environment.\nAbility to travel to AltaGas operational sites or corporate offices as required.\nWhy AltaGas?\nAt AltaGas, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across our operations while working alongside experienced teams focused on safe, reliable, and efficient asset performance. You’ll join a collaborative environment where your leadership and technical expertise can help shape engineering priorities, strengthen our operating assets, and develop the next generation of engineering talent.\nFor Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job-related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.\nFor U.S. hires: WGL/SEMCO/AltaGas offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive bonus plans, holiday pay, 401K matching and a wide array of benefits. These benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage are designed to help you and your family stay healthy. We also have paid time off (PTO) to balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role.\nU.S. affiliates of AltaGas are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical or mental disabilities, political affiliation, genetic information, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6284,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Power Grid","Oil & Gas"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T01:43:14Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":81,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:11","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/altagas-altagas-lead-operations-engineer-nebc","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/altagas-altagas-lead-operations-engineer-nebc.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-14T05:47:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9826,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1065185},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1065185"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Faltagas-altagas-lead-operations-engineer-nebc"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Faltagas-altagas-lead-operations-engineer-nebc"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Faltagas-altagas-lead-operations-engineer-nebc"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/altagas-altagas-lead-operations-engineer-nebc\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Faltagas-altagas-lead-operations-engineer-nebc"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3848421}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"altagas.ca","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3848421},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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