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About the role

  • 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

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$124,000 - CA$170,000 per year

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Location requirements

HybridNorth YorkCanada

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