Highway Design Lead

Are you ready to shape the communities of tomorrow? We’re seeking a driven and experienced Highway Design Lead to join our growing team in Calgary, AB. EXP is seeking a Highway Design Lead to expand our highway and corridor design practice in Western Canada. Based in Calgary, you will lead Alberta highway assignments and work directly with Project Managers and specialists in traffic, drainage, geotechnical, bridge and structural, environmental, utilities, right-of-way, active transportation, construction, and related disciplines.

The role combines technical leadership, integrated project delivery, mentorship, client support, and practice development. It is intended for an experienced highway designer or engineer who wants meaningful authority and ownership within an established multidisciplinary transportation platform

• Lead highway and corridor assignments through functional planning, preliminary engineering, detailed design, tendering, and construction support.

• Lead or oversee horizontal and vertical geometry, superelevation, grading, cross-sections, intersections, interchanges, roadside design, and complete corridor models.

• Develop practical and constructible solutions for highway twinning, widening, realignment, rehabilitation, interchanges, and major municipal roadways.

• Prepare and review design criteria, design reports, drawings, models, quantities, cost estimates, specifications, special provisions, and tender documentation.

• Coordinate roadway designs with traffic operations, drainage, geotechnical, structural, environmental, utility, right-of-way and property, active transportation, and construction staging requirements.

• Provide early design input during corridor planning, alternatives evaluation, design exception development, constructability review, and traffic accommodation planning.

• Support tendering and construction through design clarifications, technical inquiries, design changes, construction liaison, and record documentation, as applicable.

• Coordinate digital design delivery and model interfaces across the multidisciplinary team.

   

• Provide senior technical leadership and oversight for highway and roadway design deliverables.

• Perform and document Quality Control reviews of roadway models, calculations, reports, drawings, quantities, estimates, specifications, and tender deliverables.

• Coordinate responses to interdisciplinary, constructability, and independent review comments.

• Review and authenticate engineering work for which you accept professional responsibility and are competent to practice, where applicable.

• Mentor engineers, EITs, technologists, and designers, and support workload planning and assignment of technical tasks.

• Advance internal standards, templates, design tools, lessons learned, and best practices for highway and corridor design.

   

• Build and maintain relationships with provincial, municipal, contractor, and transportation sector clients.

• Support proposals, pursuits, technical approaches, schedules, budgets, fee estimates, and work plans.

• Help identify and pursue highway design, corridor improvement, rehabilitation, interchange, municipal roadway, and multidisciplinary transportation opportunities.

• Represent EXP in client meetings, design workshops, technical presentations, and industry activities.

• Help define team development and recruitment priorities as the Western Canadian highway design practice grows. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Technology diploma, or equivalent relevant education and experience.
• Professional Engineer registration with APEGA is preferred for engineering applicants; equivalent senior design leadership credentials will be considered for technologist or designer applicants.
• 15 or more years of progressively responsible highway and transportation design experience, including demonstrated leadership of complex corridor design assignments.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD (Civil 3D), MicroStation (OpenRoads, InRoads), or comparable corridor modelling and highway design tools.
• Strong knowledge of geometric design, grading, superelevation, constructability, and multidisciplinary roadway interfaces.
• Experience with traffic accommodation, construction staging, active transportation, utility coordination, quantities, cost estimates, specifications, and tender documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complete highway design work packages and manage technical scope, quality, schedule, budget, risk, and multidisciplinary interfaces.
• Strong technical writing, communication, mentoring, coordination, client service, and business development skills.
• Alberta TEC highway design experience is strongly preferred. Working knowledge of TEC standards, the Alberta Highway Geometric Design Guide and TAC guidance are considered an asset. Comparable provincial or major municipal experience will also be considered.
• Experience with freeway interchanges, twinning, widening, rehabilitation, realignment, or major urban corridor assignments.
• Experience with contract administration and construction liaison support.