Job Description

Role: Project Engineer Specialist – Lines & Interconnections
Location of Services: Burnaby, BC

Work Assignment Overview

This position is for a Project Engineer Specialist Consultant who will work with cross-functional teams to ensure that project designs are safe, effective, and meet client and regulatory requirements.

Estimated Work Start Date: 02-Sep-2025
Estimated Work End Date: 02-Sep-2026
Max INC Rate: $130.78 / Max T4 Rate: $108.08

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 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 all 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.

Education and Skills

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

• 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 environment, written and spoken.

Additional Experience and Role Accountabilities

• Minimum ten (10) years of transmission engineering experience, including significant time in the electrical utility industry, and a degree in a relevant engineering discipline such as structural, mechanical, or civil.

• Minimum four (4) years of experience leading multi-discipline design teams and in transmission line planning, design, and construction.

Additional Education and Skills

• Solid electric utility engineering background with the ability to think from a transmission system and operations perspective as well as understand the interactions and priorities of multi-discipline projects.

• Strong working knowledge of project management principles and roles.

• Familiarity with substations, protection, control, and telecom systems is 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 10 years of progressive engineering experience, with a focus on substation, transmission lines, and/or protection and control. Experience across the full project life cycle, from conceptual design through testing and commissioning, is considered an asset.

• Minimum 4 years leading and coordinating multi-discipline design on medium to large projects, preferably in complex environments with multiple stakeholders.

• Strong leadership and communication skills, including written communication, for coordinating and influencing various internal and external stakeholders.

• Good understanding of project management processes.

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

• Experience with telecom, protection and control, and/or transmission line projects is an asset.

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