Intermediate Bridge Engineer

Based in Western Canada for over 110 years, McElhanney offers innovative and practical engineering, surveying, mapping, planning, landscape architecture, and environmental services. As a 100% employee-owned and operated firm, with over 1,500 staff members in 31 locations, we are proud to offer qualified staff with shareholding options in our company. At McElhanney, we work in teams to build strong connections with our staff, clients, and local communities.

Our employees enjoy working here because of our varied projects, high levels of autonomy, opportunities for career development, excellent total compensation and benefits package, and collaborating with a team of great professionals.

McElhanney is currently seeking an Intermediate Bridge Engineer to join our Bridge team in Edmonton. This is a pivotal opportunity for an experienced engineer to take on a leadership role in shaping the growth of our bridge practice in Alberta, with a clear pathway to career advancement and potential employee ownership. In this role, you will be instrumental in expanding McElhanney’s bridge engineering presence across the province, while collaborating closely with our established team of bridge specialists in British Columbia.

Our diverse portfolio features major interchanges, river crossings, and complex bridge rehabilitation projects, many of which have earned industry recognition in both Alberta and BC. Notable projects include the Stoney Trail Bridge Twinning involving bridge construction engineering support for a segmentally launched, balanced, cantilevered 470 m-long bridge over the Bow River.

• You’re excited to get in at the ground level of a growing Alberta bridge practice, backed by the strength and stability of an established company.
• You value the ability to shape your role around your strengths, interests, and long-term goals.
• You're looking for a clear and supported path to senior leadership and potential employee ownership.
• You appreciate the balance of resources of a large organization while enjoying the entrepreneurial spirit and agility of a smaller, dynamic team.

• Complete inspections, assessments, analyses, structural modeling and design of bridges and other transportation infrastructure such as retaining walls and major sign structures.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams across Alberta and BC.
• Apply knowledge of Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC), City of Edmonton, and/or City of Calgary standards.
• Prepare and review structural design calculations for highway bridges, pedestrian bridges, railroad bridges, resource bridges, retaining walls, and bridge-sized culverts.
• Participate in business development, project pursuits, and proposal preparation on bridge and other transportation infrastructure projects.
• Prepare conceptual, design, and contract cost estimates.
• Coordinate with sub-consultants and other various interested parties.
• Prepare and/or review specifications, special provisions, drawings, contract documents, and other related project deliverables.
• Undertake construction contract administration, field inspection, and reporting to monitor the quality and progress of the work being performed.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure schedules, budgets, and quality control standards are achieved and maintained.
• Mentor junior engineers and technologists while learning from senior bridge and structural specialists.

• Degree in Civil Engineering and/or Structural Engineering from an accredited post‑secondary institution plus 6 to 12 years of experience in a similar role.
• Master’s degree in Structural Engineering is considered an asset.
• Registration in good standing as a P.Eng. in…