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We are seeking an experienced Practice Lead to provide technical leadership for our structural engineering practice. This is a senior leadership role for a seasoned structural engineer who is energized by raising the technical bar, mentoring engineers across offices, and building a practice known for the quality, rigour, and integrity of its work.\nYou will own the technical excellence, quality, and capability of the structural discipline across a multi-office practice: the senior technical authority the team turns to, the mentor who develops emerging engineers into confident registered professionals, and the standard-bearer who ensures every deliverable stands up to code, regulatory, and professional scrutiny. Our commercial leaders own client relationships and business growth, so you can focus on the quality of the engineering and the strength of the team. You will be a senior technical resource on major pursuits, but you will not carry sales targets.\nThe practice serves architects, developers, municipalities, First Nations, and industrial and infrastructure clients, delivering structural design across steel, concrete, wood, and masonry systems, construction engineering and field review, and forensic and rehabilitation work on existing structures.\nWhat you'll own\nServe as senior technical authority for the practice, providing expert oversight on complex projects and technically challenging assignments, and act as, or support other engineers acting as, Engineer of Record.\nOwn rigorous technical review and professional sign-off across calculations, drawings, and specifications, and ensure every deliverable meets PRI's quality standards and applicable codes across BC, Alberta, and Ontario. Given the life-safety consequence of structural work, quality control is a defining responsibility.\nOwn and continuously improve the practice's technical standards, design methodologies, checking protocols, and quality management systems.\nOwn the practice's technical capability across structural systems, and manage utilization, labour forecasts, and workload planning across offices with sector leaders and Project Managers.\nMentor and develop structural engineers, EITs, technologists, and drafters; build a bench of senior discipline leads across offices; and support emerging engineers toward P.Eng. registration with EGBC, APEGA, and PEO.\nLead recruitment and succession planning for key technical roles, and lead regular practice meetings that build technical community across offices.\nProvide technical strategy, credibility, and content on major pursuits, and act as a trusted technical advisor to clients alongside the commercial leaders who own the relationship.\nChampion new methods and tools, including BIM coordination, computational design, and AI-enabled approaches to structural analysis, while safeguarding the engineering judgment the work demands.\nWhat you bring\nRequired\nP.Eng. in good standing with EGBC, or eligibility for registration; registration with APEGA or PEO is a strong asset given the practice's footprint.\nBachelor's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering; graduate degree an asset.\nMinimum 12 years of structural engineering experience with progressively increasing technical responsibility, including a record of stamping consequential work.\nMinimum 5 years of technical or team leadership, including mentoring, technical review, resource planning, or practice development.\nDeep knowledge of steel, concrete, wood, and masonry systems, Canadian building codes, and professional practice standards.\nDemonstrated experience leading technical teams and providing senior review across multiple concurrent projects, with the maturity to lead across offices through senior specialists.\nExcellent communication skills and a genuine commitment to technical excellence, life safety, and client service.\nPreferred\nExperience as Engineer of Record across a range of building types and project sizes.\nSpecialization in seismic design, mass timber or tall wood construction, industrial structures, or forensic and rehabilitation engineering.\nProficiency with structural analysis software (ETABS, SAP2000, SAFE, RISA, or similar) and BIM coordination in Revit.\nExperience developing quality management systems, technical standards, or internal training programs, and multi-jurisdictional experience across BC, Alberta, and Ontario.\nWhy PRI\nA structure designed to let technical leaders lead technically, with genuine commercial support so you can focus on the engineering and the team.\nThe opportunity to shape a growing, cross-cutting structural practice whose work supports building, infrastructure, energy, and renewable projects across the firm.\nA collaborative environment that connects structural engineering with civil, geotechnical, environmental, and geomatics disciplines.\nA firm actively investing in innovation, including BIM, computational design, and AI-enabled tools.\nCompetitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and genuine support for ongoing professional development.\nPRI is an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. 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