Primary Engineering and Construction

Team Lead

Team Lead
Notice info
LocationCalgary, AB
Job Typefull time
On-site
Utilities

About This Job

Location: Calgary, Alberta Reports to: Manager, Design-Build Job Posting#: 129 Application Deadline: August 29, 2025

Reporting to the Manager, Design-Build, the Team Lead – Calgary Design-Build is responsible for leading a team of project management, design, and reporting professionals delivering turnkey underground and overhead electrical distribution (4 kV to 25 kV) and street lighting projects.


Role Overview

- Foster a strong safety culture and high ethical standards across the Design-Build team.

- Provide hands-on leadership, mentorship, and coaching across project delivery, reporting, financials, and professional development.


Responsibilities


Project Delivery

- Deliver multiple concurrent turnkey projects on time and budget—from engineering through construction to energization—while maintaining quality.

- Prepare takeoffs, estimates, and proposals, including engineering, material procurement, construction, and closeout.

- Attend off-site meetings, site visits, and field inspections in Calgary and surrounding areas.

- Coordinate with clients, municipalities, utilities, and other stakeholders for seamless execution.

- Manage and report on schedules, budgets, costs, risks, and communications.

- Proactively consult with clients to develop solutions aligned to their needs and communicate to mitigate risks and align expectations.

- Support project acquisition and customer relationship development.


People & Operations

- Provide peer mentoring and training; promote knowledge sharing.

- Lead employee engagement and foster strong client and team relationships.

- Manage escalations and issue resolution as required.

- Support recruitment to build a high-performing team.

- Conduct EPDPs for direct reports; review/approve expenses, vacation requests, and timesheets.

- Oversee invoicing, AR, and financial tracking; manage WIP and change order processes.

- Identify market opportunities and actively solicit new work.

- Perform other duties as assigned by the Design-Build Manager.


Qualifications (Required)

- 5–7 years’ relevant experience in project management, senior-level design-build, or senior-level electrical utility design.

- Diploma in Civil or Electrical Engineering Technology, or a degree in Electrical or Civil Engineering.

- 3+ years of estimating experience, including estimating system development.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel).

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

- Proven collaboration with multidisciplinary teams (drafting, construction, survey, civil).

- Strong organization and time management with high attention to detail.

- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision; passion for excellence.


Assets (Preferred)

- Eng., P.L.(Eng.), or equivalent.

- Project management education: PMP (PMI).

- Proficiency with Power BI and database systems.


Requirements

- Strong commitment to safety and ethical work practices.

- Ability to prioritize and manage competing demands within schedule and budget constraints.

- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective business relationships and team collaboration.

- Ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to keep projects on time, on budget, and compliant.

- Valid Class 5 driver’s licence and willingness to travel to project sites as needed.



ABOUT US

Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

Primary is the proud recipient of EHRC's Workplace Culture Innovator Award, recognizing our commitment to fostering a health, inclusive, and positive work environment.

Primary is recognized

by The Career Directory

for excellence in graduate recruitment.


GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress

Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit.

We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.


HEALTH & SAFETY

The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal.

Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a safety standard as high as our own.

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