Job Number: 52069
The City of Edmonton is seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Cost Assessment Engineer to join our Urban Planning and Economy team. In this role, you will be instrumental in administering the Arterial Roadway Assessment, Boundary Assessment, and Off-Site Levy cost-sharing programs, ensuring the smooth development of our city’s infrastructure. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including developers, consultants, and internal City departments, to review designs, manage costs, and facilitate the financial aspects of municipal improvement projects. If you are passionate about contributing to Edmonton’s growth and possess a strong background in civil engineering and cost assessment, we encourage you to apply!

SKILLS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS:

• Extensive knowledge of arterial roadway design, construction, maintenance, and acceptance processes
• Extensive experience preparing and updating construction cost updates
• Extensive experience with complex spreadsheets and reconciling financial transactions
• Knowledge of land development processes in the Edmonton area
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, including the Municipal Government Act and Off-Site Levies Regulation
• Knowledge of City of Edmonton Design and Construction Standards
• Knowledge of planning and contract law
• Knowledge of the City’s cost-sharing systems
• Ability to learn and adapt to the changing needs of industrial development
• Ability to follow APEGA Guidelines, Standards, Practices, and the City’s Professional Practice Management Plan (PPMP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Ability to coordinate, collaborate, manage issues, and negotiate win/win solutions
• Ability to analyze and interpret detailed engineering drawings, quantity schedules, technical documents, and specifications
• Highly developed and effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to perform work with attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines
• Ability to develop innovative solutions to technical and financial challenges
• Ability to work within a team and provide excellent customer service
• Ability and knowledge to effectively analyze problems, make decisions promptly, and communicate those decisions effectively
• Ability to model the City’s cultural commitments
• Knowledge and skills in various Google applications, especially Google Sheets
• Alignment to our Cultural Commitments and Leadership Competencies
• Embracing a culture of equity, diversity, reconciliation and inclusion
• Alignment with the goals of the City Plan and the Environmental Management System [Enviso]

Qualifications:

• A degree in Civil, Environmental, or other relevant Engineering Discipline
• Must be a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in good standing and registered with APEGA. Applicants in a different Canadian jurisdiction eligible for Inter-Provincial Mobility (IPMA) with APEGA may be considered. Registration with APEGA must be obtained prior to commencement of employment
• A minimum of 4 years of progressively responsible experience in arterial design and construction is required including experience with:
• Preparation of TIAs, concept and preliminary plans
• Preparation and review of geotechnical reports and environmental impact assessments
• Preparation of engineered fill and pavement designs
• Basic design principles related to stormwater, power and streetlighting, and the installation of pavement markings and street furniture; and
• Project managemen

• Work with external consulting engineers to design and develop alternative project-specific arterial cross sections and designs when required in cases where the currently accepted cross sections within the City of Edmonton Design and Construction
• Standards are not suitable due to physical, political, or safety constraints specific to a particular arterial roadway;
• Review project-specific arterial roadway and other municipal infrastructure designs to ensure that they comply with the Complete Streets Design and Construction Standards, other City of Edmonton Design and Construction Standards, City-approved
• Traffic Impact Assessments, and City-approved arterial concept and preliminary plans and engineering drawings;
• Review cost estimates and quantity schedules ensuring that quantities and unit rates are in line with what’s normally required for a typical arterial cross-section or appropriate using best engineering judgement;
• Confirm that each component being claimed is eligible to be claimed under the ARA or Boundary Assessment program and confirm that there’s no double claiming under the same program or a similar program;
• Work with the developer and engineering consultant members currently sitting on the Development Assessment Working Committee to design and develop new and updating existing typical arterial cross-section and component designs (ex. turning bays, pipeline crossings, bridge crossings, etc.) ;
• Understand and mitigate the risks of developing and approving Unit Rates that are too low and that do not line up with actual construction costs submitted over the course of recent years;
• Calculate and establish the interest rate to be used to properly escalate Arterial Roadway Assessment and Drainage Assessment over expenditures;
• Review subdivision and development permit conditions to determine what programs (Arterial Roadway Assessment, Boundary Assessment, and/or Offsite Levy) to collect assessments for.
• Confirm accessible areas using POSSE and other mapping software;
• Prepare Arterial Roadway Assessment, Boundary Assessment, and Offsite Levy memos using the appropriate assessable area;
• Review requests to include non-typical arterial construction into the ARA Bylaw and providing a verbal or e-mail recommendation to the Committee from a technical and practical perspective as to whether the request should be approved that is documented in the official meeting minutes;
• Review the viability of requests to remove, add, or swap construction obligations specified in the ARA Bylaw and providing a recommendation to the Committee; and
• Perform additional related duties as required

Qualifications:

• A degree in Civil, Environmental, or other relevant Engineering Discipline
• Must be a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in good standing and registered with APEGA. Applicants in a different Canadian jurisdiction eligible for Inter-Provincial Mobility (IPMA) with APEGA may be considered. Registration with APEGA must be obtained prior to commencement of employment
• A minimum of 4 years of progressively responsible experience in arterial design and construction is required including experience with:
• Preparation of TIAs, concept and preliminary plans
• Preparation and review of geotechnical reports and environmental impact assessments
• Preparation of engineered fill and pavement designs
• Basic design principles related to stormwater, power and streetlighting, and the installation of pavement markings and street furniture; and
• Project management