Underground and Heavy Civil Group Leader

At Mott MacDonald, we are driven by purpose and powered by brilliant people. As a trusted engineering, management, and development consultancy, we work with clients to solve complex challenges and deliver sustainable outcomes that make a meaningful difference for the communities we serve.

When you join us as an experienced professional, you will bring your expertise to work that matters while continuing to grow your career. You will collaborate with talented colleagues across disciplines and geographies, contribute your perspective, and help shape better outcomes through technical excellence, innovation, and integrity.

Build on your experience while helping shape what comes next. At Mott MacDonald, you'll work alongside talented people on complex and rewarding projects that make a real difference. We value fresh perspectives, encourage collaboration, and provide opportunities to expand your skills, take on new challenges, and grow your career. Whether you're deepening your technical expertise, broadening your leadership experience, or exploring new opportunities across our business, you'll be supported by a team that is committed to helping you succeed.

Mott MacDonald is seeking an experienced Group Leader to set the strategic direction and lead the people, capability, resources, operations, and delivery readiness of our Underground and Heavy Civil Group across Canada. This Group brings together technical teams spanning underground and Tunnelling, Bridges and Civil Structures, Geotechnical Engineering, and Fire & Life Safety to deliver complex underground and above-grade infrastructure solutions across Canada.

Working across Groups, Divisions, and the Unit, the Group Leader will build an accountable, collaborative, inclusive, and technically excellent culture; align workforce and succession plans with the project pipelines; optimize utilization and capability; uphold safety, quality, ethics, and compliance; and support sustainable business growth. Success will be assessed through measurable organizational outcomes, including resource performance, workforce readiness, employee development and retention, technical quality, operational compliance, cross-business collaboration, and effective pursuit support.

Your Impact:

• Leadership & Culture: Provide visible leadership across the Group, Divisions, and Unit; establish an effective team structure aligned with business plans; foster accountability, collaboration, inclusion, technical excellence, and innovation; and champion safety, ethics, compliance, and our Mott MacDonald values.
• Strategy & Direction: Set and communicate the strategic direction for the Group, translating Unit and Divisional priorities, market opportunities, and client needs into clear business, capability, and workforce plans that support sustainable growth.
• People & Capability: Lead and support Team Leads while maintaining strong connections with Discipline Leads to drive consistent performance management, career development, workforce planning, and technical capability. Maintain succession plans, oversee development and mandatory training, support promotion, compensation, and retention recommendations, and partner with Talent Acquisition to address capability gaps.
• Resource Management: In collaboration with Portfolio Managers, Development leads, Client Directors, and Account Managers, maintain a forward-looking view of project demand, opportunity pipelines, resource supply, capability, and recruitment needs. Work with Portfolio Managers, other Group Leads, as well as other Divisions and Regions to optimize utilization, balance workloads, and deploy staff effectively.
• Technical Excellence & Delivery Readiness: Set clear expectations for technical quality and project delivery across the group. Champion professional standards, knowledge sharing, lessons learned, innovation, and effective QA/QC, while supporting technical governance and consistent application of BMS, WIN, and DO processes.
• Supporting Divisional and Unit Leadership: Participate in divisional planning and operational reviews; monitor people, utilization, capability, and delivery performance; ensure compliance with corporate requirements, including safety, ethics, training, and timesheets; cascade business decisions effectively; and dedicate appropriate time to people leadership, operational oversight, capability planning, and continuous improvement.

Your Leadership in Action:

• Champion the broader interests of the business by working collaboratively across organizational boundaries and applying sound judgement where accountabilities are shared.
• Be a visible technical lead that champions innovation and excellence as part of project delivery across the group.
• Proactively resolve resource, capability, quality, and performance issues.
• Prioritize long-term capability, workforce planning, and succession over short-term firefighting.
• Work with Team Leads, technical specialists, project managers to develop them into future leaders.
• Balance technical excellence, delivery readiness, people leadership, operational performance, and business priorities.
• Engage proactively as a member of the Divisional Leadership Team and act as a trusted partner to Portfolio Managers, Resource Managers, and Division leadership.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Structural, Geotechnical Engineering, or a related discipline;
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or eligibility to obtain registration.
• 20+ years of experience in underground infrastructure, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, major infrastructure delivery, engineering consulting, or a related sector.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering, project delivery, or operational teams across multiple technical resource groups.
• Demonstrated success managing business performance, project delivery, utilization, staffing, budgets, and operational growth.
• Strong technical and market understanding of tunnels and underground structures, bridges, civil structures, and geotechnical engineering.
• Experience delivering major transportation, transit, municipal, water, or other complex infrastructure programs through planning, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
• Strong understanding of design constructability, temporary and permanent works interfaces, technical assurance, project governance, risk management, quality systems, and commercial delivery.
• Experience with alternative delivery models, including design-build, progressive design-build, alliance, and public-private partnership environments, is an asset.
• Experience supporting business development, strategic pursuits, and key client relationships.
• Proven ability to recruit, mentor, develop, and retain high-performing technical and project teams.
• Strong communication, leadership, stakeholder engagement, and relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across business units, regions, disciplines, clients, contractors, and delivery partners.
• An established network across water, wastewater, transit, transportation, and civil infrastructure sectors as it relates to contractors, owners and other consultants and the broader Canadian infrastructure market is highly preferred.

Benefits & Rewards:

The expected salary range for this position is from $190,000 - $234,000. Multiple factors such as qualifications, overall experience, and position responsibilities will be used to determine the successful candidate's actual salary within the expected range.

In addition to base salary, Mott MacDonald offers performance-based bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package, giving employees a direct connection to our success.

The comprehensive benefits and rewards package is designed to support your health, wellbeing, and professional growth. Eligible employees have access to health and dental coverage, wellness resources, retirement savings, insurance and disability protection, paid time off, family leave support, and professional development opportunities. Benefits are subject to eligibility, plan terms, and change.

Collaboration at Our Core:

At Mott MacDonald, we believe great ideas happen when we're together. Our hybrid approach centers on an in-office culture, with most of your time spent collaborating face-to-face and a minimum of three days per week in the office. We balance flexibility with connection, so you and your manager can choose how to meet clients, team, and personal commitments.

We seek to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA). Mott MacDonald Canada Limited will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodations, please notify us and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Location(s): Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Toronto, ON, CA

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Various

Discipline: Tunnels

Job Ref: 17664