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Posted: July 17, 2025
Closing Date: July 28, 2025
Position Type: Permanent
Union: Exempt - Management Professional (MP)
ENMAX Values – Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Service, Teamwork, Agility, Innovation
We’re looking for a Team Lead, Distribution System Planning to shape the future of Calgary’s power distribution system and lead the talented team behind it. In this role, you’ll coach and guide a team of Engineers and Technologists responsible for planning and developing a distribution system that’s safe, reliable, and ready to meet the evolving needs of our customers.
You’ll have a direct hand in forecasting growth, solving complex system challenges, and integrating emerging technologies like distributed energy resources (DERs) and electrification solutions. From developing creative solutions for capacity and reliability, to supporting regulatory requirements and capital planning, your leadership will help ensure the system remains future-ready and customer-focused.
Major Responsibilities:
- Lead the planning and development of a safe, reliable and customer focused EPC Distribution system. Specific deliverables include:
- Creating a 10-year load forecast for the system.
- Assessing the system for reliability and capacity issues.
- Develop and deliver creative solutions to address system issues.
- Evaluate and facilitate customer service connections.
Develop new planning practices to manage increasing DER penetration, and electrification.- Maintain line of sight of emerging technologies that may impact the system.
- Ensure EPC Distribution system development abides to regulatory requirements.
- Lead the development of timely, thorough, and prudent business case justifications for System Development projects to obtain internal (Management) and external (AUC, AESO) approvals.
- Ensure that processes, guidelines, and criteria are developed, sustained, or improved upon.
- Manage capital budgeting and forecasting requirements for System Development and Customer Connection projects.
- Stewardship of System Development programs from ideation to close out.
- Support or Lead Regulatory Requirements.
- Lead and coach a team of Engineers and/or Technologist. Ensure team members engagement and alignment with overall department and corporate goals and objectives including areas of personal development, compliance, and leadership development.
- Support leaders by undertaking other duties as necessary to advance business objectives.
Education Required:
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering
- P.Eng status with The Association of Professionals in Engineering and Geoscience in Alberta (APEGA)
Qualifications & Experience:
- 10 years’ experience in a utility environment
- Knowledge of the Alberta Regulatory Environment and AESO processes
- Strong understanding of electrical systems and system planning concepts
Competencies:
- Relationship builder and leader
- Proven analytical and troubleshooting skills
- High level of business acumen
- Ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical stakeholders
- Capacity to handle multiple tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to convey information and influence others
Did we mention the ENMAX Advantage?
We offer competitive compensation including a comprehensive flexible benefits program, non-downtown location that includes great building amenities such as free onsite fitness facility, onsite massage, onsite child care centre (upon availability, offered from our ENMAX Place location 141 – 50 Ave. SE), free parking and much more. If you share our values and would like to make a difference with your career, join the team and see where the ENMAX possibilities can take you.
Location: This role will be part of our hybrid (home and office) work force with office workspace located at ENMAX Place (141 - 50th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB). You will work from home on Mondays and Fridays and in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Note:
- We have changed the way we connect with our candidates. Initial interviews may be done virtually as well as parts of our on-boarding and job training may be completed remotely.
- If we can provide an accommodation or adjustment to make the process more accessible for you, please let us know. ENMAX welcomes all qualified applicants to apply and is committed to a safe and respectful workplace. It is our aim to have a workplace which is inclusive and values safety, diversity, personal integrity, respect for individual differences, and encourages ownership and accountability for our actions.
- Every ENMAX employee is responsible to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of themselves, of all other workers, and of the public. Each employee must become familiar with safety procedures and rules applicable to their job and are required to follow them while working at ENMAX.
- Must be legal to work in Canada and requires the successful completion of a criminal background check. Two pieces of valid Government issued ID will be required.
- Two professional references will be requested.
- Education requirements for this position will be verified by a third party.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional lands of Indigenous Peoples. ENMAX headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta, the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, and Amskapi Piikuni Nations; the Tsuut’ina Nation; and the îyârhe Nakoda Nations of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney, and home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, as well as many diverse Indigenous people who have made the city their home. We are committed to strengthening relationships with Indigenous Nations and peoples in all communities where we operate, through respect and collaboration.
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About ENMAX
For over 100 years, ENMAX Corporation, through its subsidiaries and predecessors, has provided Albertans with safe and reliable electricity to power the success of our province. We are warming homes, supplying worksites, driving businesses and powering communities. We are committed to being “on” for our customers. Our goal is to provide forward-thinking and customer-centric energy solutions that not only work for today, but also provide for a better tomorrow.
The ENMAX Group of Companies is a diverse organization that understands what it means to buy and make electricity, to move it across our network of wires to homes and businesses, and to market and sell electricity to our customers in a way that works for them.
The ENMAX Group of Companies is a diverse organization that understands what it means to buy and make electricity, to move it across our network of wires to homes and businesses, and to market and sell electricity to our customers in a way that works for them.
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