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.
