Senior Municipal Designer

Senior Municipal Designer

Calgary, AB

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Senior Municipal Designer!

Your work environment at EXP

As one of Canada’s largest and most reputable privately held engineering and architecture firms, EXP is extremely proud to offer a full suite of multidisciplinary consulting services to our clients. We are also 100% employee-owned, which gives us great flexibility to make many key business decisions at a local level. 
As we continue to grow our business and enhance our service offerings locally, we are eagerly seeking a highly motivated and technically competent Senior Municipal Designer to join our Calgary team.

In this role, you will have the ability to collaborate seamlessly with EXP’s multidisciplinary team from our four Western Canadian offices and ninety offices across North America on some of region’s most exciting infrastructure projects! If desired, you will also be given the opportunity to work on some very unique and challenging projects from across North America and abroad.

Your Role & Responsibilities:

Design & Technical Leadership:

• Prepare and certify detailed designs, drawings, and specifications for municipal infrastructure projects involving site grading, site development, street reconstruction, water distribution, wastewater collection, stormwater management, parking, and active transportation.
• Lead design coordination across disciplines (civil, structural, transportation, environmental).
• Ensure designs comply with municipal standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices.

Asset Management & Lifecycle Planning:

• Develop and implement asset management strategies for municipal infrastructure systems.
• Perform condition assessments and lifecycle cost analysis to support long-term planning.
• Provide recommendations for rehabilitation, replacement, and optimization of assets.

Project Delivery:

• Support project managers in delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Review and validate design deliverables prepared by junior staff.
• Participate in quality assurance and interdisciplinary design reviews.

Client Interaction:

• Collaborate with municipal clients to understand project objectives and constraints.
• Provide technical guidance and present design solutions during meetings and workshops.

Mentorship & Team Development:

• Mentor junior designers and engineers, fostering technical growth and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to internal design standards and best practice guidelines.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering Technology or Civil Engineering.
• Professional designation (P.L. Eng or P.Eng.) preferred.

Skills & Competencies:

• Proficiency in design software (AutoCAD Civil 3D, MicroStation, GIS tools).
• Strong knowledge of municipal standards, TAC guidelines, MMCD, and provincial regulations.
• Knowledge of sustainability principles and green infrastructure design.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration abilities and an ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under deadlines.

Preferred Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in municipal infrastructure design within a consulting environment.
• Familiarity with Western Canada municipal standards and practices.
• Experience in infrastructure asset management and lifecycle planning along with experience with asset management software and data-driven decision-making.

What EXP Can Offer:

• Competitive salary and full range of benefits.
• Access to leading edge software and technology.
• Eligibility to participate in company bonus programs.
• Vibrant, highly functional, and collaborative working environment.
• Flexible work hours and location.
• Career advancement opportunities.
• Opportunity to work on a diverse range of local, regional, national, and international projects.

With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments.

Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its engineering infrastructure practice. Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

What makes us different

The passion, enthusiasm, diversity and industry-leading capabilities of our employees make us who we are. We’re committed to providing a challenging work environment that cultivates career growth, encourages creativity and rewards excellence.