Managing AtkinsRéalis’ fire protection and life safety practice across Central and Western Canada. Leading clients, projects, proposals, technical delivery, and team growth.
Responsibilities
Lead the growth and delivery of the Fire Protection and Life Safety practice in Central and Western Canada
Develop priority markets and build trusted relationships with clients, partners, and stakeholders
Contribute to opportunity pipelines through market intelligence, client engagement, and pursuit planning
Represent the mechanical practice in client meetings, industry activities, and strategic discussions
Lead or support proposals, including win strategy, scope, staffing, fees, schedule, and technical approach
Coordinate proposal input across technical specialists, project managers, market leaders, and disciplines
Participate in interviews, presentations, and negotiations for strategic pursuits
Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and direction to engineers, designers, and technical staff
Plan workloads and coordinate resources with project and regional leaders
Support recruitment, onboarding, retention, succession planning, and team development
Serve as Project Manager, Regional Fire Protection Lead, Design Engineer, or senior technical advisor
Provide technical oversight for fire protection, fire alarm, emergency communication, suppression, smoke control, egress, life-safety, and fire-water systems
Guide projects from concept and detailed design through construction support, field review, testing, commissioning, and closeout
Lead code and standards interpretation involving clients, contractors, regulators, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction
Review calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, system narratives, and technical deliverables
Promote delivery aligned with scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and client commitments
Support staffing forecasts, utilization planning, and resource allocation
Monitor assignment health and support corrective actions
Contribute to business planning, market priorities, and operational improvement initiatives
Collaborate with M&E teams across Canada and connect projects with national subject-matter experts
Support opportunities involving multiple regions, disciplines, or market sectors
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, diploma in Fire Protection Engineering, or another closely related engineering discipline
Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registration, or eligibility
Typically 10 or more years of fire protection, life safety, or closely related consulting experience
Experience leading people, projects, or a technical practice
Experience delivering projects across complex sectors such as transportation, defence, energy or nuclear, industrial, healthcare, institutional, commercial, mission-critical, or life sciences
Expertise in fire protection system design
Expertise in fire alarm and detection systems
Expertise in suppression and special-hazard systems
Expertise in fire and life-safety code consulting
Expertise in fire hazard or risk assessment
Expertise in performance-based design
Expertise in commissioning or integrated systems testing
Expertise in construction-phase services
Strong working knowledge of Canadian and Provincial building and fire codes, NFPA standards, and relevant ULC standards
Experience working with Authorities Having Jurisdiction is required
Experience leading and developing engineers, designers, and technical specialists
Experience with workload planning, coaching, performance feedback, recruitment, and succession planning
Client-facing credibility and commercial acumen, including relationship development, opportunity identification, proposal leadership, scope and fee development, negotiation, and delivery oversight
Excellent written and verbal communication, sound judgment, collaborative leadership, and organizational skills
Ability to travel to client and project locations as required
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Employee recognition
Flexible benefits tailored to health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs
Training and professional development opportunities
Hybrid working culture
Generous time-off policies
Accommodation throughout the recruitment and hiring process as required by Company policy and AODA
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