Job Description

Role: Senior Project Engineer – Lines & Interconnections
Location of Services: Edmonds / Hybrid

Work Assignment Overview

This position is for a Senior Project Engineer Consultant who will work with cross-functional teams to ensure project designs are safe, effective, and meet all technical and operational requirements.

Estimated Start Date: 06-Oct-2025
Estimated End Date: 05-Oct-2026
Max INC Rate: $103.11
Max T4 Rate: $85.21

Experience and Role Accountabilities

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in a relevant engineering field or equivalent.

• Develop safe engineering solutions by using initiative and judgement to perform tasks including developing designs, analyzing and resolving problems, and interpreting engineering specifications on medium complexity and scope assignments.

• Assist project or operations management to meet safety, cost, quality, and time objectives by proposing changes in plans and estimated costs, recommending payment for work completed by contractors, preparing progress reports, coordinating work schedules, and other similar tasks.

• Resolve highly technical and unusual design and field engineering problems by conducting independent studies and analysis, exercising independent judgment in selecting and interpreting information, and recommending safe engineering designs to support successful operations and/or project completion.

• Participate in engineering practice development by conducting independent studies and analysis, contributing to the development of technical standards, exercising judgment in selecting and interpreting information, recommending safe engineering designs, and providing guidance and advice to other engineering professionals.

Important Notes

• Prior to commencement, the selected candidate must have their own sole practitioner, or the use of their firm’s, Permit to Practice with EGBC.

• EGBC Registrants on this assignment shall work under a Professional Practice Management Plan, Quality Management Pillar. The Registrant shall apply their own or their firm’s Permit to Practice Number to work that is Sealed by the Registrant. Retention and preservation of all project documentation produced during the contract must satisfy EGBC Bylaws.

Education and Skills

• Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with Engineers & Geoscientists BC, or with another jurisdiction and eligible for registration with EGBC.

• Familiarity with CAD systems and drawing standards.

• Ability to use standard industry design/analysis software.

• Intermediate MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

• Intermediate English skills for professional environments, both written and spoken.

• May be required to subscribe to a digital seal technology service (e.g., Notarius).

Role Specialty

Senior Project Engineer – Transmission – Lines

Additional Experience and Role Accountabilities:

• Minimum eight (8) years of transmission engineering experience, including significant time working in the electrical utility industry.

• Degree in a relevant engineering discipline such as structural, mechanical, or civil.

• Strong experience leading multi-discipline design teams, and in transmission line planning, design, and construction.

Additional Education and Skills:

• Professional Engineer registered with EGBC.

• Solid electric utility engineering background with the ability to think from a transmission system and operations perspective.

• Ability to understand the interactions and priorities of multi-discipline projects.

• Good working knowledge of project management principles and roles.

• Familiarity with design, substations, protection, control, and telecom systems (an asset).

Work Assignment Requirements

• Degree in Electrical, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering and registered (or eligible for immediate registration) as a Professional Engineer with EGBC.

• Minimum of 8 years of progressive engineering experience, preferably in substation, transmission lines, protection, and control. Experience through the full project life cycle, from conceptual design to testing and commissioning, is considered an asset.

• Minimum of 2 years leading and coordinating multi-discipline design on medium to large projects.

• Ability to understand the impact of projects on transmission systems and operations, and to balance interactions and priorities across multi-discipline projects.

• Excellent leadership and communication skills, including technical writing, to coordinate and influence various internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of Project Management processes.

• Experience managing Owner’s reviews of multi-discipline engineering work completed externally is an asset.

• Experience with telecom and/or protection and control projects is an asset. Transmission line project experience is an asset.

• Site experience on large construction projects such as hydroelectric stations, substations, or transmission lines is an asset.

Must Haves

• Transmission engineering experience.

• P.Eng designation.

• Valid Class 5 driver’s license.

Nice to Haves

• Previous project management experience.

• Previous utility or large infrastructure project experience.