Bridge Design Engineer

Bridge Design Engineer 
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 Intermediate Bridge Design Engineer!

Your work environment at EXP

EXP is seeking a hands-on Bridge Design Engineer to help build and deliver our bridge and transportation structures team in Western Canada. Based in Calgary, you will work with our Bridge Engineering Lead and multidisciplinary team on structural assessments, rehabilitation, replacement and new design assignments, taking ownership of substantial work packages from field investigation through design, tendering and construction support.

This role is intended for an experienced engineer who can independently advance technical work, coordinate multidisciplinary inputs and help establish the delivery practices of a growing local bridge team, with room to develop toward broader project and technical leadership.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

Bridge Design and Project Delivery

• Complete structural analysis, modelling and design for bridge and transportation structure assignments, including rehabilitation, replacement and new-structure options.

• Prepare design calculations, criteria, technical memoranda, assessment reports and rehabilitation recommendations.

• Support field investigations and condition assessments, identify technical risks and recommend practical solutions.

• Take ownership of defined bridge work packages from preliminary design through tender, including coordinated drawings, details, quantities, specifications, special provisions and cost estimates.

• Work with engineers and technical-production staff to produce coordinated, constructible deliverables and maintain clear design records.

• Address interdisciplinary, constructability, quality-control and independent-review comments.

• Coordinate structural design with highway, geotechnical, hydrotechnical, drainage, environmental, utility, right-of-way, traffic and construction-staging requirements.

• Incorporate foundation, hydraulic, scour, durability, access, temporary works and traffic constraints into design.

• Participate in design meetings, interdisciplinary reviews, options evaluations and constructability discussions, and communicate structural requirements to project managers and other disciplines.

• Manage assigned scope, schedule, budget and quality.

Tender, Construction and Discipline Support

• Respond to technical questions during procurement and construction, and review structural submittals, shop drawings, requests for information, work plans and proposed changes.

• Evaluate field conditions and develop practical technical recommendations.

• Participate in site, construction, post-construction and warranty reviews where required and consistent with your qualifications.

• Complete self-checks and peer reviews, prepare work for senior and independent review, and respond to comments clearly and traceably.

• Contribute to design tools, templates, standards, technical guidance and lessons learned, and share knowledge with project staff.

• Support proposals, technical approaches, work plans, schedules, fee estimates, client meetings and project interviews.

• Contribute to project scoping, technical risk identification and resource planning.

• Develop greater project management, technical-leadership and client-facing responsibility as the team grows.

What your experience looks like

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering; a Master’s degree is an asset.

• Registered, or eligible for registration, as a Professional Engineer with APEGA.

• Approximately 7 to 12 years of progressively responsible bridge or transportation-structures experience; other experience levels may be considered where technical capability strongly aligns with the role.

• Demonstrated experience completing structural analysis and detailed design for bridge or transportation structure assignments, including substantial work packages with limited day-to-day supervision.

• Experience preparing calculations, reports, drawings, quantities, specifications and tender documents.

• Working knowledge of CSA S6 and applicable Canadian bridge codes, standards and specifications.

• Experience with bridge rehabilitation, replacement or new-structure design.

• Proficiency with bridge-analysis software such as MIDAS, CSiBridge, SAP2000 or comparable tools.

• Ability to interpret survey, geotechnical, hydrotechnical and existing-structure information and integrate it into design.

• Strong technical writing, problem-solving, communication, coordination and organizational skills, with the ability to manage assigned scope, schedule, budget and quality.

• Willingness to participate in field investigations and travel as required.

Preferred Experience and Assets 

• Bridge-delivery experience for Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC), another provincial transportation agency or a comparable public-sector owner.

• Experience with major or standard bridges, bridge-sized culverts, retaining walls or other transportation structures.

• Experience with rehabilitation, overlays, girder repairs, structural assessments or staged construction.

• Experience preparing structural tender packages and supporting shop-drawing review, construction liaison or contract administration.

• Alberta TEC Bridge Inspection and Maintenance (BIM) certification is an asset.

• Experience with structural steel, reinforced, precast or prestressed concrete, foundations, durability or rehabilitation materials.

• Familiarity with bridge drafting, modelling or BIM workflows and multidisciplinary coordination.

• Fabrication inspection or review experience is considered an asset.

• Knowledge of AASHTO or AREMA requirements where relevant.

• Interest in developing toward project-engineering, deputy technical-lead or project-management responsibilities.