Role Responsibilities:
Design & Technical Delivery:
- Produce road designs using RoadEng (or equivalent road engineering software), balancing constructability, cost, and terrain constraints.
- Complete terrain stability assessments (TSAs) in accordance with FRPA, the tiered assessment framework, and current provincial guidance.
- Prepare bridge site plans and supporting design documentation for forestry and resource access crossings.
- Develop practical, fit-for-purpose designs that are field-constructable, avoiding unnecessary over-engineering.
- Produce and supervise the production of accurate professional deliverables with attention to quality, time, and cost parameters, both independently and in a team environment.
Quality Assurance:
- Collaborate on, improve, and maintain Regional Quality Assurance and Quality Control through Strategic's Quality Management System.
- Perform and/or audit field and office work to professional standards, including compiling field data into useful reports and recommendations.
- Maintain responsibility for the content and quality of personal work.
- Ensure complete, high-quality, timely, and accurate packaging of deliverable products to project-specific standards.
- Report on project completion status or significant issues, offering options to address them.
Professional Engagement:
- Support in administering external contractors, including conducting assessments on quality of work and level of payment as required.
- Ensure compliance with all statutory safety and professional standards legislation.
- Ensure complete and accurate field data gathering by self and field teams as required.
- Ensure effective communication methods (radio, etc.) with crew, transportation providers, and others in the area.
Technical Leadership:
- Assist and support in the creation, auditing, and oversight of Strategic's technical policies and procedures related to civil design, road engineering, and terrain stability.
- Support cross-regionally as needed with technical skills as a subject matter expert or professional resource on project, time, or cost analysis.
- Utilize technical skills to support project bids and proposals for timelines, quality, costs, and requirements.
Training:
- Participate in the training and mentorship of coworkers, sharing work experience and improving their technical skills.
- Be part of a committee to review Strategic's training policies, procedures, SOJTs, and training content yearly and recommend required changes.
Reports Relationships
Functionally Reports to: Regional Manager
Role Requirements
General Requirements:
- Knowledge and experience in a natural resource sector
- The ability to have an entrepreneurial drive and mindset while balancing that within a collaborative organization
- An effective communicator
- Ability to travel within the Strategic regions for work as required
- Participate in camp shifts as required
- Attend and participate in industry conferences, workshops, trade shows as required
- Maintain professional image at work and within the company
- Maintain personal accountability for content and quality of work for self and team
- Work in adverse weather conditions and steep, brushy terrain as required.
- Travel safely by truck, boat, ATV, float plane, and helicopter without issue.
- Class 5 driver's license required
Qualifications:
- Professional designation in British Columbia required: P.Eng., RPF, or CET (or eligibility for registration)
- Demonstrated experience in road design, including use of RoadEng or equivalent road engineering software
- Experience completing terrain stability assessments (TSAs)
- Experience preparing bridge site plans
- A track record of practical, constructable design work suited to forestry and resource access contexts
- Project management experience would be an asset
Experience:
- 10+ years experience in resource development, civil construction, infrastructure development or related field,
- Experience with RoadEng or equivalent road design software
- Experience in terrain stability assessments and bridge site plans is an asset
- Geotechnical investigations, hazard assessments, and foundation design is an asset
- Project management and leadership experience
