Director, Engineering

ENMAX • Calgary, AB

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Engineering is the senior engineering authority for ENMAX Power Corporation and a key member of the Operations, Asset and Grid Modernization leadership team. This newly established role provides enterprise-level leadership for engineering governance, professional practice, technical standards, design quality, and engineering assurance across transmission and distribution functions. Reporting to the Vice President, the Director leads a number of teams including the Office of the Chief Engineer and is accountable for strengthening engineering excellence, regulatory defensibility, and practical field execution in a complex utility environment. The role requires a functional engineering leader with strong technical credibility, practical field understanding, executive presence, and the ability to influence change across cross-functional teams. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable engaging with engineers on technical standards, field crews on practical constructability issues, regulators on compliance and defensibility, and executives on safety, risk, investment, and grid modernization priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent engineering discipline.
• Registered or eligible for registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with APEGA in the province of Alberta.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in electric utility engineering, operations, asset management, or infrastructure delivery, preferably within a regulated transmission and distribution environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams, technical specialists, or multi-disciplinary functions with accountability for standards, design quality, professional practice, and engineering governance.
• Strong practical understanding of electric utility - design, construction, operations, maintenance, and field execution, with the ability to lead teams to translate engineering requirements into safe and workable field outcomes.
• Proven ability to engage with front line leaders, crews, engineers, project teams, regulators, municipalities, and senior executives on complex technical and operational matters.
• Strong knowledge of professional engineering practice requirements, including APEGA obligations, authenticated work products, professional accountability, quality management, and audit readiness.
• Strong understanding of Alberta’s utility regulatory environment, including AUC expectations for capital justification, documentation, prudency, compliance, and defensible decision-making.
• Working knowledge of applicable utility codes, standards, and regulatory frameworks, including CSA, IEEE, IEC, NERC, Alberta Reliability Standards, AESO requirements, and relevant Alberta legislation.
• Familiarity with engineering quality management systems, including design basis documentation, construction deviations, field changes, technical standards, and engineering assurance processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading change across matrixed or cross-functional teams, using influence, judgment, and collaboration to improve consistency, accountability, and organizational performance.
• Must be legal to work in Canada.
• Requires the successful completion of a criminal background check.
• Two pieces of valid Government issued ID will be required.
• Two professional references will be requested.
• Education requirements for this position will be verified by a third party.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced education in engineering, business, leadership, or asset management would be considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Provide EPC-wide leadership for engineering governance, professional practice, design quality, and technical standards, ensuring engineering work is safe, consistent, compliant, and defensible.
• Own and steward EPC’s APEGA Professional Practice Management Plan, including authenticated work products, professional accountability, engineering controls, audit readiness, and continuous improvement of professional practice.
• Lead the Office of the Chief Engineer and develop engineering capability across EPC, including technical talent development, succession depth, subject matter expertise, and consistent application of engineering judgment.
• Establish and govern engineering standards, design authority, and safety-by-design practices across transmission, substation, network, and distribution assets to reduce field hazards, rework, construction issues, and design defects.
• Provide engineering quality assurance for transmission and distribution capital business cases, ensuring clear technical justification, design basis traceability, documented engineering judgment, and alignment with Alberta Utilities Commission regulatory expectations.
• Provide practical engineering leadership on complex field, customer, construction, and operational issues, including escalations, incident investigations, constructability challenges, and resolution of technical conflicts.
• Lead Permits and Circulations, including municipal permitting interfaces, technical review of third-party work near EPC assets, construction coordination where conflicts exist, and compliance for rights-of-way and infrastructure installations.
• Lead Alberta Reliability Standards interpretation and engineering oversight, supporting alignment with NERC standards, AESO requirements, and responses to regulatory inquiries from AUC, AESO, OHS, APEGA, and other authorities.
• Drive engineering modernization by advancing tools, standards, design processes, and emerging technologies that improve engineering quality, productivity, safety, and readiness for Grid of the Future needs.
• Use personal influence, technical credibility, and change leadership to align engineering practices across cross-functional teams and support organization-wide transformation.
• Collaborate with leaders across Asset Management, System Operations, System Planning, Innovation, Project Delivery, Field Services, and other EPC teams to ensure capital plans and engineering outcomes are safe, practical, executable, and aligned with enterprise priorities.

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• comprehensive flexible benefits program
• non-downtown location that includes great building amenities such as free onsite fitness facility
• onsite massage
• onsite child care centre (upon availability, offered from our ENMAX Place location 141 – 50 Ave. SE)
• free parking

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director