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We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.\nTake on some of the world’s toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way. We'll empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.\nSee where your commitment could take you with GHD.\nWho are we looking for?\nWe’re looking for aLead Civil Engineer - Transportation to join our growing Canadian Operations. This position will be based in our Vancouver, Edmonton, or Calgary office.\nTo be successful in this role, you will have a minimum of 10 years of experience in transportation engineering, design, and design coordination on transportation infrastructure projects including highways, roads, transit facilities, and multimodal transportation corridors.\nYou will be responsible for leading roadway engineering assignments, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, mentoring junior staff, and supporting project delivery across Western Canada. You will work closely with regional technical leaders, project managers, designers, and multidisciplinary teams across Western Canada, and GHD’s global network. In an ever-changing world, it requires creativity and innovation to stay ahead.\nWorking with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:\nLeading transportation engineering and roadway design assignments for highways, freeways, arterial roads, municipal roads, transit corridors, and other transportation infrastructure projects.\nLeading the planning, development, and delivery of transportation engineering designs from concept development through detailed design.\nCoordinating multidisciplinary project teams and providing technical leadership throughout project development and delivery.\nProviding mentorship, technical guidance, and supervision to engineers, engineers-in-training, technicians, and designers.\nReviewing and overseeing the preparation of engineering plans, profiles, cross-sections, quantities, technical memoranda, specifications, and contract documents.\nLeading design coordination activities and ensuring compliance with applicable standards, client requirements, and project objectives.\nWorking collaboratively with civil, structural, drainage, geotechnical, environmental, electrical, traffic, and other engineering disciplines to deliver coordinated project solutions.\nSupporting project managers with project planning, scope development, schedule management, resource planning, and budget monitoring.\nSupporting Design Managers and Project Managers in the planning, execution, and delivery of transportation infrastructure projects, including scope management, schedule development, resource planning, and budget monitoring.\nLeading design coordination efforts across multidisciplinary teams while developing the skills and experience required for future Design Manager or Project Manager responsibilities.\nParticipating in client engagement, proposal development, project pursuits, fee preparation, and business development activities.\nContributing to project delivery strategy, risk management, staffing plans, and project governance activities to broaden exposure to project management functions.\nMaintaining effective working relationships with clients, municipalities, transportation agencies, utility companies, contractors, and subconsultants.\nSupporting the preparation and review of reports, technical studies, design submissions, and contract documentation for review agencies and clients.\nSupporting projects delivered through procurement models such as Design-Bid-Build and Design-Build.\nWhat you will bring to the team:\nBachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.\nProfessional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in BC or Alberta. \n10+ years contributing to the design, coordination, and delivery of transportation infrastructure projects.\nStrong technical leadership in roadway, highway, freeway, municipal roadway, or transportation infrastructure design.\nProven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and mentor technical staff.\nExpertise in preparing and reviewing engineering drawings, technical reports, specifications, contract documents, and design submissions.\nStrong understanding of transportation engineering principles, roadway geometric design, roadside safety requirements, TAC guidance, OPSS standards, and MTO requirements.\nKnowledge of project delivery processes, resource planning, scheduling, budgeting, and execution strategies.\nStrong quality management skills, including design reviews, quality assurance, and quality control processes.\nExcellent communication, leadership, stakeholder engagement, and organizational skills.\nAbility to lead multiple projects and work effectively within a collaborative team environment.\nFamiliarity delivering transportation projects for MTO, Metrolinx, municipalities, regional governments, or other transportation agencies.\nKnowledge of Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, and alternative delivery models.\nProficiency with AutoCAD Civil 3D, OpenRoads Designer, or comparable transportation design platforms.\nFamiliarity with BIM collaboration environments such as ProjectWise or Autodesk Construction Cloud.\nKnowledge of contract preparation software including CPS, HiCo, or Builterra.\nExposure to major transportation projects involving highways, freeways, municipal roadways, transit systems, LRT, BRT, and multimodal corridors.\nThe salary range for this position is $112,448 - $187,413. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for GHD locations in its major city centres. Ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At GHD, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation.\nThe use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruiting is just getting started and may be used during the process to improve efficiency and fairness. Your application may be reviewed by both AI and our hiring team. While AI supports some steps through the process, all final hiring decisions are made by humans.\nAs a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. 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