Senior Municipal Engineer; Term

Position: Senior Municipal Engineer (3-Year Term)
North Bay is a beautiful, safe and diverse community. Nestled between two of Northeastern Ontario’s most beautiful lakes, the City offers a perfect blend of opportunity and easy living. Servicing a regional catchment area of 112,000 people, this progressive city of 52,662 residents is conveniently located just three and a half hours from Toronto and Ottawa. North Bay attracts and retains businesses within a variety of sectors.

With a new state-of-the-art Regional Health Centre, coupled with two world-class post-secondary institutions, North Bay’s workforce continues to expand. North Bay’s diverse business community, abundant amenities, and progressive opportunities for growth make the city an ideal place for investment and a leading community of progressive growth and development.

The Corporation of The City of North Bay (“The City”) is accepting applications for the position of Senior Municipal Engineer. This opportunity is a new temporary full-time position with a three‑year term.

The Senior Municipal Engineer, reporting to the Senior Capital Program Engineer, leads the planning, design, and delivery of municipal capital infrastructure projects, including both linear and vertical assets. The incumbent is also responsible for implementing and advancing the City’s Road Safety Strategy, ensuring initiatives are data driven, collaborative, and aligned with broader transportation and public safety objectives. As a technical leader within the Engineering Department, the Senior Municipal Engineer ensures that all work adheres to municipal standards, provincial legislation, and industry best practices.

Key Accountabilities

Lead the planning, design, and delivery of municipal capital projects, overseeing internal teams and external engineering consultants

Manage full project execution, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, quality, tendering, contract changes, and regulatory approvals

Provide technical leadership and coordination, including mentoring staff, sealing engineering designs (P.Eng.), engaging with stakeholders, and preparing reports to Council

Lead the implementation of the City’s Road Safety Strategy, overseeing day‑to‑day program delivery, data‑driven safety analysis, and coordinated execution of road‑safety initiatives

Coordinate internal and external partners, including Police, Public Works, Planning, School Boards, and agencies, while supporting working groups, integrating safety into capital projects, and responding to resident safety requests

Prepare reports and performance updates, track and evaluate safety programs, and champion a positive traffic‑safety culture grounded in Vision Zero and Safe System principles

Review subdivision and site plan submissions for compliance with legislation, standards, and municipal requirements, coordinating with external agencies to secure development approvals and support agreement preparation

Manage development‑related financial and infrastructure components, including evaluating cost estimates, setting security deposits, and negotiating cost‑sharing and over sizing arrangements with developers

Support capital planning and long‑term forecasting by maintaining infrastructure inventories, analyzing asset condition and performance data, and identifying risks and priority needs for maintenance, renewal, and replacement

Coordinate inspection programs, investigative studies, and infrastructure modelling, and review development proposals to ensure alignment with city‑wide infrastructure capacity, sustainability, and future asset management requirements

Serve as a key liaison for interdepartmental coordination, external agency approvals, and public communications while ensuring regulatory compliance, timely information sharing, and transparent engagement with stakeholders, utilities, partner agencies, and the community throughout all stages of municipal infrastructure projects

Key Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering

A professional engineer’s licence (P.Eng.) as granted by Professional Engineers Ontario

Minimum ten (10) years’ experience in the engineering field

Demonstrated Project Management experience

Effective oral and written communication…