Senior Associate

Smith-Andersen-; Halifax; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours and half day Fridays (a

Comprehensive Group Health Benefits, H

Group Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Share Ownership Program (ESOP

Purchase Time off Program

Community and social events

Job summary

Smith + Andersen is a trusted Canadian engineering firm with offices nationwide. The Senior Associate role offers ownership of high-impact projects, leading delivery, and serving as a day-to-day client leader. You will contribute to people development, recruitment support, and firm initiatives.

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership presence and professional credibility; able to build and maintain trusted, long-term client and stakeholder relationships.
• Strong analytical and risk-based judgment applied to complex technical decisions, scope, schedule and project financial performance.
• Proven ability to mentor, coach and develop others through constructive feedback, delegation and performance support.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to align multidisciplinary teams, manage expectations and drive timely decisions.

Responsibilities

• Leads the delivery of complex often multidisciplinary projects across the full lifecycle, ensuring scope, quality, schedule and financial outcomes are achieved.
• Own project financial performance by actively managing fees, resourcing and delivery risk to remain within approved budgets.
• Act as the single point of accountability on complex projects, leading client communication, issue resolution and overall delivery coordination.
• Support team level financial reviews, analyzing revenue versus project costs and overall financial performance.
• Track Project Information Forms (PIFs) against staffing plans to confirm resourcing assumptions and maintain financial alignment.
• Provide input to annual performance reviews for project managers and project team engineers and designers and participate in performance review delivery and calibration discussions.
• Support recruitment efforts by screening candidates, participating in interviews and providing timely hiring recommendations in collaboration with human resources.
• Lead or coordinate proposal and qualification submissions in collaboration with shared service and technical leadership.
• Direct RFP strategy and response development, including client interviews and pursuit presentations, to support successful wins.
• Lead or actively contribute to Smith + Andersen committees, delivering measurable outcomes on internal priorities and initiatives.
• Represent Smith + Andersen at external events, forums and industry engagement, promoting firm services and supporting national initiatives.
• Lead complex client engagements, demonstrating strong credibility, sound judgment, and consistent delivery performance.
• Develop and maintain a portfolio of clients who seek out the Senior Associate for repeat work and new project opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Client relationships

Communication

Analytical thinking

Job description

Smith + Andersen is a trusted, Canadian engineering firm, recognized for its multi-disciplinary expertise. With more than seven hundred and fifty employees across eleven offices in five provinces, the firm delivers comprehensive solutions nationwide.

At Smith + Andersen our employees contribute to some of the most sustainable building design projects in Canada. The work we do has meaningful impact on the community by contributing to landmark projects such as hospitals, transit stations, community centres, federal and provincial government buildings and post secondary institutions.

Our values drive and define everything we do, demonstrating a deep commitment to sustainability, mentorship and quality work that spans nearly six decades in business. In addition, we are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work™ and selected as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces™ for the highly collaborative culture we’ve built and for empowering employees to do great work!

This Opportunity

The Senior Associate role is an opportunity for accomplished technical leaders to take full ownership of high‑impact projects and see the results of their decisions first‑hand. In this role, you will lead complex projects, drive strong delivery and financial performance, and serve as a trusted day‑to‑day leader for clients and project teams. You will contribute to the firm’s success through people development, recruitment support, proposal leadership, and involvement in key firm initiatives. This role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact through delivery excellence, trusted client leadership, and consistently strong project outcomes.

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

Why choose Smith + Andersen?

In addition to an exciting career filled with meaningful work, we offer:

• Flexible hours and half day Fridays (all year round)
• Comprehensive Group Health Benefits Program, including a Health Spending Account
• Group Retirement Savings Plan (Employer and Employee Contributions)
• Employee Share Ownership Program (ESOP)
• Purchase Time off Program
• Wide variety of community and social events

What You’ll Do

• Leads the delivery of complex often multidisciplinary projects across the full lifecycle, ensuring scope, quality, schedule and financial outcomes are achieved.
• Own project financial performance by actively managing fees, resourcing and delivery risk to remain within approved budgets.
• Act as the single point of accountability on complex projects, leading client communication, issue resolution and overall delivery coordination.
• Support team level financial reviews, analyzing revenue versus project costs and overall financial performance.
• Track Project Information Forms (PIFs) against staffing plans to confirm resourcing assumptions and maintain financial alignment.
• provide input to annual performance reviews for project managers and project team engineers and designers and participate in performance review delivery and calibration discussions.
• Support recruitment efforts by screening candidates, participating in interviews and providing timely hiring recommendations in collaboration with human resources.
• Lead or coordinate proposal and qualification submissions in collaboration with shared service and technical leadership.
• Direct RFP strategy and response development, including client interviews and pursuit presentations, to support successful wins.
• Lead or actively contribute to Smith + Andersen committees, delivering measurable outcomes on internal priorities and initiatives.
• Represent Smith + Andersen at external events, forums and industry engagement, promoting firm services and supporting national initiatives.
• Lead complex client engagements, demonstrating strong credibility, sound judgment, and consistent delivery performance.
• Develop and maintain a portfolio of clients who seek out the Senior Associate for repeat work and new project opportunities.

Who You Are:

• Demonstrated leadership presence and professional credibility; able to build and maintain trusted, long-term client and stakeholder relationships.
• Strong analytical and risk-based judgment applied to complex technical decisions, scope, schedule and project financial performance.
• Proven ability to professionally mentor, coach and develop others through constructive feedback, delegation and performance support.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to align multidisciplinary teams, manage expectations and drive timely decisions.
• Ability to foster a high performance, inclusive team environment and contribute positively to office culture and firm initiatives.
• Strong quality focus and accountability for outcomes; able to anticipate issues, resolve conflicts and escalating appropriately.
• Strategic, client focused mindset with the ability to contribute to proposal/RFP development, positioning and pursuit success.

About Smith + Andersen

Founded in 1965, Smith + Andersen has organically grown from an established reputation as a trusted engineering consulting firm, reaching new levels of engineering and design excellence in the mechanical, electrical, communications, security and audiovisual fields, and providing enhanced services such as lighting, building automation systems, and intelligent integrated systems design. Thanks to our client-focused approach, we are able to apply efficient, sustainable, and reliable design and engineering solutions on the some of the most exciting projects across Canada.

For more information about Smith + Andersen, please visit our website at www.smithandandersen.com.

Accommodation

Appropriate accommodations will be provided to candidates upon request throughout the recruitment and hiring process. If you require accommodation during any phase of the hiring process, please advise the Human Resources Specialist with whom you are in contact.

Diversity

Smith + Andersen is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates of any age, culture, subculture, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, race, ethnicity, family status, religion, mental or physical status or veteran status.

Recruitment Agencies

Smith + Andersen welcomes interest by individual applicants. For resumes or applications submitted by agencies or recruiters with which Smith + Andersen does not have an agreement in place, Smith + Andersen will not pay any referral fee. Unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies or recruiters will be deemed to have been referred without fee or other charges.

Smith + Andersen does not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess or select applicants.

Smith + Andersen is an equal opportunity employer.