Senior Project Engineer, Marine Vapour Control System Upgrade Program (Contract)

Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.

Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.  

As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system. 

With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.

Our Core Values

Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your strengths in an environment that encourages Safety, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us!

Location: Calgary Head Office                          

Department: Major Projects Office

Reports to: Manager, Westridge Major Projects            

Worker Type: Contract     

Schedule Type: Full-time

Work Setting: In-office     

Trans Mountain is seeking a collaborative, motivated, and values-driven individual to join our dynamic team as a Senior Project Engineer, Marine Vapour Control System Upgrade Program (MVCSUP) & Westridge Marine Terminal Coordination. In this position, you will play a key role in providing technical coordination and engineering assurance for the MVCSUP while coordinating the planning, communication, and reporting of concurrent activities across Westridge Marine Terminal. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong engineering, project coordination, interface management, planning, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills, with the ability to support safe, compliant, and coordinated execution within an active operating terminal.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with and support the Project Manager in delivering the MVCSUP, coordinating technical scope, engineering quality, interfaces, deliverables, and issue resolution within delegated authority.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering through option development, FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up, performance testing, and handover to Operations.
• Develop, review, and maintain engineering scopes, design criteria, bases of design, specifications, calculations, drawings, data sheets, technical studies, work packages, and engineering deliverable registers.
• Coordinate technical studies and option assessments related to Vapour Combustion Unit siting and configuration, Vapour Recovery Unit reliability upgrades, legacy system integration, emissions, capacity, constructability, and lifecycle reliability.
• Plan and facilitate design reviews, hazard identification and operability studies, constructability reviews, operability and maintainability reviews, and technical risk assessments; track actions to closure.
• Provide technical oversight of engineering consultants and equipment vendors, including review of deliverables, technical bids, vendor documents, technical queries, and deviations.
• Support cost estimates, schedules, procurement and contracting strategies, regulatory applications, risk registers, decision records, change management, and Stage-Gate deliverables with accurate engineering inputs and recommendations.
• Support construction and field execution by responding to technical issues, reviewing field changes and non-conformances, and verifying installed work conforms to approved design requirements.
• Support testing, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, performance testing, training, turnover documentation, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate information across sustaining capital, environmental, integrity, Operations, security and emergency management, Business Readiness, Health and Safety, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Project Controls, and major project teams to support integrated planning and execution at WMT.
• Collect, validate, and consolidate progress updates, milestones, look-ahead activities, schedule changes, construction windows, outages, impairments, access requirements, resource demands, and key dependencies.
• Facilitate recurring WMT Activity Coordination and technical meetings, including agendas, materials, decisions, actions, and follow-up.
• Maintain an integrated view of WMT activities and identify conflicts, gaps, risks, dependencies, permitting constraints, operational impacts, and opportunities between concurrent work; coordinate resolution and escalate material concerns.
• Maintain core coordination outputs, including an integrated look-ahead, dependency and conflict log, decision and action register, meeting records, and consolidated status reporting.
• Maintain engineering and coordination records, including technical decisions, assumptions, deliverables, interfaces, actions, risks, issues, changes, commitments, and status reporting in accordance with document-control, technical-assurance, and management-of-change requirements.
• Support multiple concurrent strategic and urgent directives requiring Project Executive Leadership attention, coordinating initiatives from development through execution.
• Prepare clear communications for project teams and senior leadership, including project dashboards, technical recommendations, progress reports, strategic materials, and executive and governance reporting.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

• Post-secondary education in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering; another engineering discipline may be considered where supported by relevant process-facility and project-delivery experience. 
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Alberta or British Columbia, or eligibility to obtain registration within an agreed timeframe. 
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation or other relevant project management training is preferred. 
• Seven or more years of progressive engineering and project-delivery experience in the energy, pipeline, marine terminal, industrial, or midstream sectors, including multidisciplinary coordination through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational handover. 
• Demonstrated experience reviewing engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, equipment data, technical bids, vendor documents, field changes, non-conformances, and turnover records. 
• Working knowledge of applicable engineering codes and standards, design assurance, hazard and risk reviews, management of change, quality control, document management, project schedules, milestone reporting, look-ahead planning, action tracking, interface management, and work coordination in an active operating environment. 
• Strong facilitation, technical writing, organization, communication, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple complex initiatives and communicate concisely to technical, operational, management, and executive audiences. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and related systems, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Power Automate, Power BI, and Visio. 
• Experience with marine terminals, vessel-loading facilities, vapour recovery systems, vapour combustion units, emissions-control technologies, hydrocarbon processing, process systems, rotating equipment, piping, instrumentation and controls, combustion systems, or brownfield modifications is preferred. 
• Experience supporting regulatory applications, environmental studies, air-emissions modelling, noise and vibration mitigation, stakeholder-facing technical work, outages, tie-ins, acceptance testing, commissioning, and transition to sustained operations is preferred. 
• Commitment to inclusive practices and a willingness to contribute positively to a collaborative and supportive workplace culture.

Working Conditions

• Willingness and ability to travel as required.
• Must have a valid Class 5 driver’s license.
• May need to provide support outside of regular business hours and/or on the weekend.

Application

Candidates may submit their application in English or French. To apply in French, please use our French careers site: Careers (French)

We Build Careers and Pipelines That Last

Our story is about determination, resourcefulness and resilience. It’s about charting our own course, finding innovative solutions to challenging problems and doing the right thing. It was true when Trans Mountain became a company in 1951 and it’s just as true today. We welcome new members to our team that embrace the qualities in our story, that thrive on the new path and directions we take.  Our culture is one of care and taking our responsibilities seriously. If you would like to contribute to our culture, then join our journey.

A Rewarding Opportunity

We offer:

• Valuable experience providing opportunity for professional development and career advancement;
• An opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the most talented and experienced people in the business;
• Competitive compensation;
• A place to share a sense of purpose and build relationships;
• Meaningful work that makes a difference;
• An opportunity within the Canadian energy industry.

We value:

• The health, safety and wellness of everyone working in our company;
• Meaningful participation from Indigenous and local communities;
• The commitment and resilience of our people;
• Collaboration and achieving success together. 

In keeping with Trans Mountain’s commitment to maximize benefits for communities, priority will be given to qualified candidates from Indigenous, local and regional communities along the Trans Mountain pipeline corridor.

In Alberta, the pipeline system spans the traditional territories of Treaty 6, 7 and 8, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (Zone 4).

In British Columbia, the system crosses the traditional territories of numerous First Nations that are affiliated with the Secwepemc, Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux, Syilx/Okanagan, Interior and Coast Salish, Stó:lo, as well as the Métis.

Trans Mountain also operates through 15 First Nation Reserves located within the region spanning the BC interior through Fraser Valley.

Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA)

Trans Mountain is committed to fostering inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility.  The diverse viewpoints and cultural knowledge that our employees bring to work enrich our organization’s collective cultural understanding, which is reflected in the work we do every day.  We strive to create an environment that is free of barriers to promote full participation in the workplace. Trans Mountain welcomes new team members from traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized groups, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.