Senior Lead Engineer, Mechanical, Rotating Equipment

Current ENMAX employees are encouraged to apply through their internal Workday access.

Posted: September 18, 2025

Closing Date: October 1, 2025

Position Type: Permanent

Union: Exempt MP

Why ENMAX?

We are driven by our purpose of lighting the way to a brighter energy future, a future that includes a workplace where you’ll experience belonging and unlock possibilities. We offer meaningful opportunities, strong collaboration and a career aligned to what matters to you. We’re proud of who we are and the work we do to support our communities and customers who depend on us, because at ENMAX, we’re lighting the way together.

The Senior Lead Engineer, Mechanical and Rotating Equipment provides Mechanical Engineering oversight to and is the overall technical authority for the design, development, optimization and maintenance of power generation equipment, systems, and facilities within the EEC generating asset portfolio, with a focus on rotating equipment and associated auxiliary systems.

This role directly supports the Manager Maintenance Engineering with the development and execution of engineering standards, strategies, techniques, programs and activities that optimize the efficiency, reliability and operational flexibility of power generation equipment, and ensures compliance with EEC’s APEGA Professional Practice Management Plan (PPMP), regulatory, and industry standards. The role also provides technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced rotating equipment and balance of plant mechanical engineers.

Major responsibilities:

- Define, make key decisions for and implement EEC mechanical specifications, standards, guidelines, and technical reference documentation.

- Support the assessment of rotating equipment for life expectancy evaluation and effectiveness of maintenance.

- Lead and support the study and analysis of complex or recurring problems relating to rotating equipment and recommend appropriate solutions. Review the performance, reliability & availability, vibrations and trending.

- Maintain expertise in the areas of condition monitoring and predictive maintenance and provide support and coaching for development of staff expertise.

- Support shop and field tests for existing or new equipment, prepare start-up or overhaul procedures, establish or verify quality requirements on rotating equipment, perform reliability improvement review, maintain and update standards, procedures and specifications and work as Rotating Equipment Engineer to resolve any failures or problem areas.

- Ensure relevant code, technical and regulatory knowledge and information is applied to mechanical and rotating equipment decisions, resulting in regulatory compliant outcomes.

- Provide professional and technical engineering supervision, guidance, mentoring and support to EEC mechanical and rotating equipment engineers.

- Establish and implement mechanical engineer competency standards and requirements.

- Ensure accuracy of generating equipment drawings and technical manuals.

- Provide technical leadership and oversight for mechanical maintenance, equipment optimization, efficiency, and capacity expansion projects based on sound engineering practices.

- Accountable for EEC’s compliance to its Professional Practice Management Plan (PPMP), APEGA requirements, the Safety Codes Act, Pressure Equipment Safety Regulation (PESR), Alberta Boiler Safety Association (ABSA) requirements, Pipeline Act, Canadian Standards, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) codes.

- Ensure accuracy of generating plant and equipment mechanical drawings and technical manuals and that all mechanical equipment is retained within EEC’s Enterprise Asset Management System.

- Documenting risks within the EEC risk register and developing options for Plant GMs to implement as corrective and preventive actions.

Education required:

- University degree in Mechanical Engineering

- Registered as a Professional Engineer with The Association of Professionals in Engineering and Geoscience in Alberta (APEGA).

Qualifications and experience:

- Must have 15+ years’ experience as a Professional Engineer having progressed into a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in rotating equipment with previous experience supporting maintenance of gas and steam turbines and other types of rotating equipment.

- Expert knowledge of Safety Code Act, Canadian Standards, and industry codes.

- Expert knowledge of thermal power plant equipment, systems and processes and balance of plant equipment.

- In depth working knowledge and expertise of rotating equipment within power generating facilities coupled with hands-on experience in troubleshooting and repair of industrial and aeroderivative gas turbines, steam turbines, pumps, compressors, fans, gearboxes and other associated auxiliary systems

- Expert knowledge of Machinery Condition Monitoring and Analysis including vibration, thermography and ultrasound tools and techniques, lubrication, alignment and balancing

- Expert understanding of engineering and O&M principles and philosophies as well as project management lifecycles and turnaround projects.

- Ability to develop, document and communicate technical and specialized information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Excellent Enterprise Asset Management System (IBM Maximo) architecture knowledge and workflow.

Competencies:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify and convey complex topics to non-technical leaders

- Excellent collaboration, analytical and interpersonal skills.

- Superior organizational skills with the ability to manage a wide variety of projects/programs and the associated active issues and risks.

- Takes ownership of projects and carries them through to completion with limited supervision.

- Refined problem-solving skills.

Did we mention the ENMAX Advantage?

We offer competitive compensation including a comprehensive flexible benefits program, non-downtown location that includes great building amenities such as free onsite fitness facility with programming geared to employee’s needs, onsite childcare centre (upon availability, offered from our ENMAX Place location 141 – 50 Ave. SE), free parking and much more. If you share our values and would like to make a difference with your career, join the team and see where the ENMAX possibilities can take you.

ENMAX Values – Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Service, Teamwork, Agility, Innovation

Location: This role will be part of our hybrid (home and office) work force with office workspace located at ENMAX Place (141 - 50th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB). You have the option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays and will work in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Note:

- Relocation Assistance will be provided for applicants that qualify.

- If we can provide an accommodation or adjustment to make the process more accessible for you, please let us know. ENMAX welcomes all qualified applicants to apply and is committed to a safe and respectful workplace. It is our aim to have a workplace which is inclusive and values safety, diversity, personal integrity, respect for individual differences, and encourages ownership and accountability for our actions.

- Every ENMAX employee is responsible to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of themselves, of all other workers, and of the public. Each employee must become familiar with safety procedures and rules applicable to their job and are required to follow them while working at ENMAX.

- Must be legal to work in Canada and requires the successful completion of a criminal background check. Two pieces of valid Government issued ID will be required.

In the spirit of reconciliation, we respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional lands of Indigenous Peoples. ENMAX headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta, the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, and Amskapi Piikuni Nations; the Tsuut’ina Nation; and the îyârhe Nakoda Nations of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney, and home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, as well as many diverse Indigenous people who have made the city their home. We are committed to strengthening relationships with Indigenous Nations and peoples in all communities where we operate, through respect and collaboration.

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About ENMAX

For over 100 years, ENMAX Corporation, through its subsidiaries and predecessors, has provided Albertans with safe and reliable electricity to power the success of our province. We are warming homes, supplying worksites, driving businesses and powering communities. We are committed to being “on” for our customers. Our goal is to provide forward-thinking and customer-centric energy solutions that not only work for today, but also provide for a better tomorrow.

The ENMAX Group of Companies is a diverse organization that understands what it means to buy and make electricity, to move it across our network of wires to homes and businesses, and to market and sell electricity to our customers in a way that works for them.