Municipal Infrastructure Lead

Calgary, Alberta

Job Description

The Municipal Infrastructure Lead plays a pivotal role in growing Al-Terra's presence in the Calgary market while delivering high-quality civil engineering projects for public clients. The successful candidate will pursue new opportunities, cultivate and strengthen client relationships, lead proposal and pursuit efforts, and oversee successful project delivery from inception through completion. The ideal candidate combines strong technical civil engineering expertise, with sound business acumen, and excellent interpersonal skills to build trust with clients, partners, and internal teams. This role reports to the Manager, Municipal Infrastructure and is a key member of the Municipal Infrastructure team.

Responsibilities

• Bring demonstrated technical proficiency in transportation and roadwork, water management, or utilities with depth in at least one of these areas.
• Apply transportation and roadwork experience that may include new construction, rehabilitation, widening, intersections, interchanges, streetscapes, traffic calming, and active transportation infrastructure.
• Apply water management experience that may include watershed planning, water quality, low impact development, water conservation and re-use, and climate resilience.
• Apply utilities infrastructure experience that may include hydraulic modelling of water, wastewater, and stormwater systems using tools such as WaterCAD (Bentley), PCSWMM (CHI) and Mike Urban (DHI); servicing strategies, feasibility studies, and master plans; engineering design briefs; flow monitoring and inflow/infiltration analysis; emergency response planning; and infrastructure cost estimating.
• Lead teams through the full project lifecycle, from site investigation and conceptual design through detailed design, tendering, and construction administration.
• Provide technical review and direction, ensuring design decisions align with municipal standards, regulatory requirements, and leading industry practice.
• Stay current on evolving standards, technologies, and approaches that shape municipal infrastructure delivery in Alberta.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across civil, structural, electrical, environmental, geotechnical, and survey disciplines to deliver integrated project outcomes.
• Manage project and financial performance against KPIs, actively managing risk, scope, and resourcing throughout the project lifecycle.
• Mentor and develop junior staff, fostering a collaborative, high-performance team culture.
• Execute business development strategies for your line of business by pursuing opportunities and cultivating relationships in alignment with Al-Terra's strategic growth objectives.
• Share local market intelligence and client insights with VP of Engineering Public Sector and the VP of Business Development and Marketing.
• Identify and cultivate partnership opportunities with complementary firms for the pursuit of larger and more complex opportunities in alignment with strategic growth objectives.
• Employ a strategic level of client management and relationship building.
• Develop proposal win strategies in collaboration with your VP and lead technical content proposal and pursuit efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a related engineering discipline
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation
• Minimum ten years of progressive civil engineering experience, with at least five years in a project management or client-facing business development role.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, science, business administration, or related field is an asset
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is desirable
• Experience with public sector clients (municipalities, provincial, or federal agencies) is a strong asset.
• Demonstrated track record of winning new business and growing client relationships in a consulting engineering environment or extensive experience evaluating proposals and managing consulting relationships from the public sector will be an asset.
• Strong understanding of fee negotiations, contract terms, and financial performance.
• Proficiency in project management tools and platforms such as MS Project, Deltek Ajera/Vision/Vantagepoint, or similar will be an asset.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including proposal and technical report writing.

Working Conditions

• Full time, 40 hours per week.
• Our team works primarily full-time from our office. However, we prioritize flexibility, employee satisfaction, and work-life balance.
• Occasional travel and overtime, including weekends, may be required.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift 25 pounds.
• Ability to navigate uneven terrain and active construction sites.
• Work at a desk for extended periods of time.

About Al-Terra

Al-Terra is an Alberta-based engineering, landscape architecture, and geomatics firm that specializes in getting people where they need to go and creating places where they want to be. Our 100+ staff provide comprehensive engineering and consulting services to a diverse range of clients including municipalities, government agencies and private developers. Since 1976, we have provided highly trained, engaged staff who act as trusted partners in our clients' projects while cultivating strong relationships with the people and communities we serve.

Our Core Values

We are a company driven by core values. We are proud to embody these values with our colleagues, clients, and partners.

• We build on what has made us great.
• We cultivate exceptional professionals.
• We are authentic, we are intentional, we are fun.
• We provide superior service to build clients for life.
• We are compassionate citizens of our community.

Only applicants eligible to work in Canada will be considered.