Senior Engineer in Winnipeg

The Region of Waterloo is a thriving, diverse community committed to fostering opportunities for current and future generations. Our mission is to provide essential services that enhance the quality of life for all residents, while our core value emphasizes caring for people and the land we share.

The Role:

• Plans, designs, manages, and authorizes the provision of engineering services, operations, and assets in the Division for large scale, high profile/complex/politically sensitive projects.
• Chairs project teams on high profile/complex projects.
• Establishes project scope and requirements.
• Takes full responsibility for project from conception to completion.
• Conducts assessments and studies required for large-scale project planning and optimization projects.
• Designs capital projects that are high profile/complex/politically sensitive, involving multi-disciplinary engineering areas/activities.
• Develops and manages schedules and budgets (up to multi-million).
• Identifies need for and manages property transactions access agreements and approvals, involving multiple stakeholders.
• Supervises Engineering & Planning Coordinators (Water), a Water Analyst (Asset Management) engineers and engineering interns, as assigned; provides guidance to same.
• Directs technical and survey staff on design projects and in preparing final contract drawings.
• Provides direction, guidance and performance evaluation to consulting engineers.
• Participates in the training, development and mentoring of engineers and engineering interns.
• Administers contracts and interprets documents with contractors.
• Negotiates claims, disputes and payments.
• Visits construction sites to assess quality and progress of work.
• Chairs/conducts public meetings and consultations as the project lead.
• Responds to public complaints regarding high profile/complex/politically sensitive projects.
• Assumes professional engineering responsibility for work within professional scope of practice.
• Writes/reviews technical reports and presents reports to Committees and Council.
• Collaborates with Regional staff to deliver projects and resolve issues.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of municipal engineering, normally acquired through a degree in engineering or applied science, plus progressively responsible related experience.
• Must be licensed and in good standing as a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.
• Ability to work independently on concurrent projects.
• Computer skills with ability to use software such as Microsoft Office and specialized systems.
• Communication and human relation skills to direct and guide contractors, consultants and staff.
• Ability to write project correspondence, reports, contracts, agreements and project definition reports.
• Ability to travel within Waterloo Region.
• Ability to support and demonstrate the Region’s values.

Region of Waterloo is committed to building a workforce through fair, equitable, and accessible hiring practices. We invite all interested individuals to apply and actively encourage applications from members of groups with historical and/or current barriers to equity.