Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Projects

CityofOttawa•Ottawa, ON

7d•CA$102,308 - CA$124,481•Onsite

About The Position

The mandate of Infrastructure Services is to implement city-building priorities – from planning and delivering infrastructure projects, to managing infrastructure assets and investments. You manage total project delivery using in-house and/or external resources for major infrastructure construction and rehabilitation projects, including roadways, transitways, structures, sewers, water mains, pumping stations, treatment works, drainage works, lighting, solid waste/landfill sites, cycling facilities, traffic calming, transit improvements, streetscaping and related underground utilities. You are responsible for all phases of the project delivery, from project inception through consultant selection (where applicable), public consultation, pre-design, detailed design, approvals, tendering, and award, to construction. You monitor, track and report on project status, approve all project expenditures, arrange all project related testing, and handle commissioning/turnover to operating branches. Assignments involve major or multiple projects that are highly complex, of multi-million dollar value, frequently having numerous stakeholders and may require extensive public consultation and environmental assessment and may extend over multiple years. You also: participate in project identification, prioritization and planning; organize the conduct of environmental impact assessment and other studies and all stages of the project lifecycle; contribute to the review/development of department engineering standards; and carry out other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Completion of 4 year degree in Engineering or Applied Science
Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in the planning, design and construction of municipal infrastructure
Minimum of 5 years of project management experience
Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
Engineering planning, design, operations and construction/rehabilitation of municipal structures, infrastructure and utilities
Related federal, provincial and engineering legislation, regulations, standards, codes and by-laws pertaining to environmental impact assessment, building, fire, health and safety, construction process
Processes for conducting and analysing environmental impact assessments
Principles of project management, including cost containment/control and reporting
Process for developing Request for Qualifications & Requests for Proposals, including acceptance, review and selection of consulting engineers
Processes for tendering and contracting work
Computer applications in an engineering environment pertaining to municipal design, project management, spreadsheet, word processing, e-mail and use of the Intra-Internets
Protocols for responding to senior management/councillor inquiries, conducting public consultation and preparing reports, briefing notes, other communiqués
Must possess the training, experience and knowledge to organize the work and its performance
Must be familiar with all applicable health and safety legislation, have knowledge of any potential or actual danger to health or safety in the work place, and have knowledge of appropriate actions to be taken in order to ensure the health and safety of staff in accordance with applicable legislation and city policies and procedures
Conflict management, influence, resolution and negotiation skills
Thorough, self-motivated and reliable
Organized and attentive to detail
Exhibit tact, discretion and sound judgment
Able to deal with contentious issues and situations
Analytical
Effective interpersonal and presentation skills
Team player
Leadership, initiative, motivation and creativity
Flexible and able to deal with elected officials, representatives from all levels of government, the public, consultants/contractors
Able to multi-task and prioritize
English oral, reading, writing
A valid Ontario unrestricted G class driver’s license (or provincial equivalent) with no more than 6 demerit points accumulated

Responsibilities

Manage total project delivery using in-house and/or external resources for major infrastructure construction and rehabilitation projects.
Responsible for all phases of project delivery, from project inception through consultant selection, public consultation, pre-design, detailed design, approvals, tendering, and award, to construction.
Monitor, track and report on project status.
Approve all project expenditures.
Arrange all project related testing.
Handle commissioning/turnover to operating branches.
Participate in project identification, prioritization and planning.
Organize the conduct of environmental impact assessment and other studies and all stages of the project lifecycle.
Contribute to the review/development of department engineering standards.
Carry out other duties as assigned.
Manage concurrent complex, multi-million dollar and often highly sensitive projects and bring the projects to completion according to schedule and within budget.
Manage activities of technical staff, consultants, contractors, and co-ordinate activities with other levels of governments and external agencies/utilities.
Prepare formal RFQ’s and RFP’s; review, analyze and recommend acceptance of proposals from consulting engineering firms.
Communicate effectively orally and in writing to internal councillor inquiries and inquiries/complaints from the general public and to present technical material in formats conducive to various audiences.
Identify and recommend the solutions to health and safety issues and problems to ensure the safety of employees and contractors and to mitigate loss/project downtime.