Project Director

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 72111
Ministry: Transportation and Economic Corridors
Location: Calgary
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: June 17, 2025
Classification: Senior Manager 2

**Salary**: $4,402.49 to $5,590.52 bi-weekly ($114,905 - $145,913 /year)

Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC) is a centre of excellence for transportation in North America. We contribute to Alberta's prosperity and quality of life by providing and supporting a safe, innovative and sustainable provincial transportation system and water management infrastructure. With Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors, you can engage in a fulfilling career with diverse room to grow. We believe in building careers, providing opportunities for growth within the organization, and striving to provide our staff with a work-life balance including reasonable hours of work to ensure time with family and to accommodate outside interests.

The ministry promotes a vital and diverse economy by:

- Managing transportation safety
- Supporting municipalities with public transportation and water/wastewater facilities
- Expanding and enhancing a well-integrated transportation system and enabling market access
- Preserving and developing the provincial highway network and water management infrastructure

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**Role Responsibilities**:
Lead the Future of Alberta’s Infrastructure - Make Your Mark on Major Transportation Projects

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in shaping Alberta’s transportation future? This is your opportunity to lead the execution of high-impact infrastructure initiatives like the Deerfoot Trail upgrades and Highway 8 twinning. As a trusted advisor to senior leadership and a key player in multi-billion-dollar capital programs, you will drive progress, inspire teams, and deliver results that directly improve how Albertans move and connect. If you thrive in high-stakes environments and excel at building consensus among complex stakeholders, this is your chance to lead projects that matter.

About the Role

Reporting to the Executive Director, Major Capital Projects, this role leads the delivery of major urban and rural transportation construction and rehabilitation programs in and around the City of Calgary. With a focus on large-scale, complex projects using standard Design Bid Build models and alternative delivery models such as Design-Build and Public-Private Partnerships, you’ll oversee all facets of project execution—from strategic planning and resource allocation to contract management and turnover to operations. As the department’s Project Sponsor, you will represent TEC’s interests with municipalities, engineering consultants, constructors, utilities, and internal partners to ensure projects are executed on time, on budget, and to specification.

Your key responsibilities include:

- Leading the design and construction of high-profile urban and rural transportation projects
- Managing diverse contract models and proactively resolving claims and disputes
- Overseeing a $500M annual capital budget with strong financial controls and reporting
- Collaborating across departments to ensure consistency in technical standards and delivery execution
- Supervising and developing staff while maintaining high service standards
- Engaging stakeholders to align project delivery with community and governmental priorities
- Guiding policy development and capital planning initiatives
- Administering engineering consultant contracts and contributing to performance evaluations
- Ensuring effective knowledge transfer and succession planning within the branch and wider department
- Providing expert advice and briefings to executive leadership and ministry representatives

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**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

- **Systems Thinking**: Observes and understands larger impact of role. Sees impact of work on organization; anticipates change in own area based on activities in other areas. Considers how own work impacts others and vice versa. Ask questions to understand broader goals. Aware of how organization adds value for clients and stakeholders.
- **Drive for Results**: Actively sets goals and remains open to advice on reaching them. Sets goals and prioritizes work. Identifies and corrects areas for improvement. Suggests actions; asks for advice when lacking information or multiples priorities. Operates within APS value system.
- **Agility**: Understands need for change and manages own emotions. Uses common sense and experience to approach ambiguous problems. Prevents emotions from