Associate Director, Project Execution

Highlights of the job

We are hiring a Full Time, Permanent Associate Director, Project Execution position working out of Hugh J Bolton Service Center, located in Edmonton, AB.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering & Project Delivery, the Associate Director, Project Execution, provides strategic and operational leadership for the delivery of Electrical Distribution capital and customer programs. In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary teams and contractors to safely execute projects that support system reliability, customer growth, and business performance.

Partnering across EPCOR Electricity, you will transform approved investment plans into executable work programs, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

You will also lead customer-facing project delivery activities, manage key stakeholder relationships and commercial commitments, and foster a culture of continuous improvement focused on safety, efficiency, customer experience, and operational excellence.

We welcome applications from internal & external candidates. EPCOR employees are encouraged to apply using their '@epcor.com' email address.

What you’d be responsible for

• Providing strategic and operational leadership for the delivery of Distribution capital, customer, and operational work programs while ensuring alignment with safety, customer, operational, and business objectives.
• Leading the safe, reliable, and efficient execution of projects and programs, ensuring work is delivered in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and customer commitments.
• Owning the customer experience from intake through project completion, ensuring customer requirements are understood, communicated, and successfully delivered.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, developers, municipalities, key accounts, and internal stakeholders to support positive customer outcomes and successful project delivery.
• Leading project management, customer delivery, work planning, and estimating functions to optimize safety, delivery performance, customer outcomes, productivity, and capital efficiency.
• Coordinating internal and external resources to ensure approved work is effectively planned, prepared, and executed.
• Building and leading a high-performing organization through workforce planning, succession planning, talent development, coaching, and a culture of safety, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Driving continuous improvement, innovation, and organizational change through performance measurement, process optimization, and the adoption of industry best practices.

What’s required to be successful

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from a recognized university.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation and registered, or eligible for registration, with APEGA.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.
• Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in the electric utility industry or a related infrastructure environment.
• Demonstrated success leading large multidisciplinary teams and delivering complex capital programs and projects.
• Strong knowledge of utility project delivery, construction management, work planning, estimating, contractor management, and capital program execution.
• Proven ability to build high-performing teams, drive operational performance, and deliver results in a complex and evolving environment.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence decisions and align diverse interests.
• Experience leading organizational change, continuous improvement initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration.

You are a strategic and collaborative leader who brings an enterprise perspective to decision-making and builds strong partnerships across the organization. You create clarity and alignment through effective communication, foster a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement, and empower teams to achieve exceptional results. You are skilled at leading through change, building stakeholder trust, developing future leaders, and aligning diverse teams around common goals to achieve strong customer and business outcomes.

Other important facts about this job

Juristiction: MGMT

Hours of work: 80 hours biweekly

Application Deadline: November 13, 2026

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Please note the following information:

• A requirement of working for EPCOR is that you are at least 18 years of age, successfully attained a high school diploma (GED, or equivalent level of secondary education) and legally entitled to work in Canada. (A copy of a valid work permit may be required.)
• If you are considered for the position, clearance is required on all applicable background checks (which may include criminal, identity, educational, and/or credit) and professional reference checks. Some EPCOR positions require an enhanced level of background assessment, which is dictated by law. These positions require advanced criminal record checks that must also be conducted from time to time after commencement of employment.
• A technical/practical assessment may be administered during the selection process and this exercise will be used as a part of the selection criterion.
• To meet the physical demands required of some positions, candidates must be in good physical condition and willing to work in all weather conditions. Clearance on pre-placement medical and drug and alcohol testing may be required.
• Prior infractions for unsafe driving behaviours will be evaluated and considered for non-selection regardless of current demerits on file.
• If you are required to provide your own personal reliable vehicle: Successful applicants must provide their own vehicles with appropriate insurance in accordance with EPCOR’s Employee Mileage Reimbursement Policy. You will be reimbursed in accordance with EPCOR’s Employee Mileage Reimbursement Policy.