• A 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 for BC Hydro projects and operations.
• 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, recommending safe engineering designs to support successful operations and/or project completion at BC Hydro.
• Participate in BC Hydro’s engineering practice 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 making decisions related to methods and designs as well as providing guidance and advice to other engineering professionals to develop future capability at BC Hydro.

Important notes:

• Prior to commencement on assignment, the selected candidate must have their own sole practitioner, or the use of their firm’s, Permit to Practice with EGBC.
• EGBC Registrants provided to BC Hydro through this assignment shall work under BC Hydro’s 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 their contract with BC Hydro will be retained by BC Hydro 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 as such with Engineers & Geoscientists BC
• BC Hydro uses a Digital Sign and Seal Technology. You may be required to subscribe to a digital seal technology service offered by Notarius
•Intermediate English skills for 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, and PowerPoint)

Additional Experience and Role Accountabilities

• A minimum eight (8) years of substation engineering experience including significant time working in the electrical utility industry, and a degree in a relevant engineering discipline such as electrical, civil, or structural.
• Good working experience in leading multi-discipline design teams and in protection, control, and telecom systems.

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 as well as an ability to understand the interactions and priorities of multi-discipline projects
• Good working knowledge project management principles and roles
• Good working knowledge of design and transmission lines, an asset

Prior experience as work package manager, involvement in resource forecasting and good analytical skills are preferred.

Full Job Description below:

• Work with Work Package Managers, Division Managers, and Team Leads to assign appropriate work centre(s) and develop work forecasts for each project activity for active capital projects including Regulatory (Asbestos, PCB, NERC, etc), Project Delivery (PD) and Programs and Contract Management (PCM) projects.
• Coordinate resource forecasts for interrelated work packages with all corresponding Team Leads.
• Monitor resource demands throughout the progression of projects and highlights areas with significant deviation and / or resource constraints. Discuss areas of concern with the Work Package Manager, Division Manager and / or Team Lead to adjust forecasts and address resourcing gaps.
• Review historic demand trends for similar projects and develop metrics to help improve the accuracy of resource forecasting for Engineering and Project Delivery’s key business units.
• Compile resource demands for all capital projects for each resource type and develop short-term and long-term resource demand forecasts. Review forecasts against resource capacities and provide an assessment of demand vs. supply issues to Capital Project Managers, Division Managers and Team Leads.
• Provides resourcing information in response to ad hoc requests for information from the project team and resource managers. Files and retrieves documents in accordance with PPM practices for project document management.
• Perform a variety of resourcing functions for capital projects, such as: preparing materials to communicate variances to the Work Package Mangers and / or Team Leads; collecting relevant information to assist in the revision of work package documents; researching Work Package / Network Activity / Network Activity Element variance explanations with Work Package Managers; and performing a variety of related resourcing calculations and activities.
• Perform a variety of support duties, such as: preparing correspondence, updating project records and files; assembling a variety of project-related documentation; undertaking specialized studies by gathering relevant information; and preparing related graphs and tabulations. May provide information to assist the Work Package Manager in preparing chance notice or to assist in preparation of Work Package Agreement.

• The goal of this role is to:

o Reduce disruptions / delays to active projects caused by resource constraints by ensuring accurate work forecasts are developed and maintained throughout the progression of the project.
o Identify and communicate any forecasted resource constraints to the Directors and Division Managers to act on.
o Provide a centralized view of projects that might be impacted by resource constraints.