Job Description

Role: Stations Equipment Engineer
Location of Services: Edmonds – Hybrid – Travel (once per month to sites across BC or as required)
Contract Duration: 12 months
Max INC Rate: $110.78 / Max T4 Rate: $91.55

Experience and Role Accountabilities

• Minimum ten (10) years of experience in a relevant engineering field or equivalent.

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

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

• Deliver exceptional customer service by communicating with stakeholders and performing activities such as defining the scope of engineering/geoscience services to be provided, establishing the basic design criteria with the client, approving related technical documentation, and assessing/reporting on work progress against standards, objectives, and specifications.

• Make decisions and recommendations of a complex technical nature including the establishment of design bases, criteria, and concepts, and/or on matters affecting the management of engineering/geoscience resources and activities.

Important Notes

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

• Registrants must work under an approved 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 by the Registrant during the contract will remain with the client to 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 Engineers & Geoscientists BC.

• May be required to subscribe to a digital seal technology service offered by Notarius.

• Intermediate English skills for a professional environment, written and spoken.

• Familiarity with CAD systems and drawing standards.

• Ability to use standard industry design/analysis software.

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

Role Specialty Description

• Requires experience with the design of electrical utility substations with operating voltages from 12kV to 500kV, and demonstrated experience working with utility design solutions in an electric utility environment.

• Position supports increasing workload in capital projects, emergency replacement and restoration work, asset management strategic OMA work programs, and Owners Engineer review work.

• Requires specialized knowledge of electrical power equipment, with experience in the specification and installation of substation electrical equipment.

• Experience in one or both of the reactive or switchgear equipment areas is required.

Reactive Equipment Areas include:

• Series capacitor stations

• STATCOMs and power transformers

• Shunt reactors

• Instrument transformers

Switchgear Equipment Areas include:

• HV circuit breakers up to 550kV

• HV & MV GIS

• Metal clad switchgear

• Circuit switchers

• Disconnect switches

• Fused cutouts

• Station service switchgear

• Station surge arresters

Additional Education and Skills

• Ability to provide technical direction to junior engineers.

• Ability to manage design tasks including scope, schedule, and cost.

• Ability to find engineering solutions that add value and to reach consensus.

• Strong communication skills (verbal and technical writing), analytical ability, interpersonal communication, and presentation skills.

• Experience in project management including estimating, cost control, and project administration.