Senior Engineer, Asset Strategy & Analytics

Division: Engineering - Electricity

Location: Edmonton, or Calgary, AB

Be challenged and grow!

Position Summary:

Always there. Anywhere. That’s us! We’ve got a lot of energy at ATCO, focused on creating prosperity for generations to come. Embrace challenge and growth because your career journey at ATCO has the potential to be full of new experiences, inspiring challenges, and growth without boundaries.

ATCO is a multi-division global company with an agile and entrepreneurial mindset in how we get work done. It’s important we stay on the leading edge of our industry and that takes senior engineers who get excited by the opportunity to be challenged with rewarding and complex work for which they are valued and recognized. Our diverse operations mean the engineering opportunities are plentiful. Set your sights on how you want to grow and develop, and we’ll be right there to support you all the way.

The Asset Strategy & Analytics team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to lead the strategic asset planning activities for various distribution electrical assets. Reporting to the Supervising Engineer, they will be accountable for leading asset lifecycle strategies and investment planning for various distribution asset classes. The successful candidate will collaborate with key stakeholders such as Engineering, Operations, and Regulatory to support risk-informed, value-based asset decisions that optimize system reliability, safety, and cost. The ideal candidate will be someone with a strong asset management foundation, electrical utility experience, and excellent communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities:

• Develop broad-level asset management strategies and best practices for multiple distribution assets to support long-term system performance, reliability, and risk mitigation.

• Lead the development of asset lifecycle strategies and renewal plans for specific distribution asset classes by analyzing risk and operational factors, including asset condition, system criticality, reliability performance, operational constraints, and financial considerations.

• Create, review, and approve technical scopes and business justification documentation for capital maintenance projects, which may include asset replacement, refurbishment and new technology implementation.

• Identify and develop new capital maintenance and operations and maintenance programs to mitigate emerging and increasing risks to the distribution electrical system, including risks associated with aging infrastructure, extreme weather events, wildfire, and evolving customer and system requirements.

• Develop and implement prioritization frameworks for asset-related decision-making using a risk-and value-based approach.

• Support regulatory applications and filings through the development of business cases, regulatory documentation, information request responses, evidence development, and witness preparation activities.

• Facilitate working sessions with other technical and non-technical departments to ensure alignment between teams and the development of asset strategies and processes.

• Coach, mentor, and supervise engineers and engineers-in-training.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical or Civil.

• Professional Engineer ( designation with APEGA.

• – years of progressively responsible engineering experience, preferably within an electrical utility environment.

• Knowledge of electrical utility systems including the various components/assets.

• A demonstrated understanding of good asset management principles.

• Experience with asset management systems such as IBM Maximo.

• Excellent business writing, communication, and presentation skills.

• Strong leadership skills, and capable of managing a diverse group of stakeholders (technical and non-technical) and leading the team towards a consensus/resolution on complex decisions, and strategy and process development and improvements.

• Knowledge of ISO is an asset.

• Experience using analytical and data visualization tools (, Power BI, SQL, DAX, Python) to support asset management decision-making is considered an asset.

What We Offer:

• A culture based on caring, integrity, agility, collaboration, and striving for excellence

• Competitive compensation

• Flex benefits

• Training and mentorship programs

• Charitable donation matching

The diversity of the jobs and the markets that ATCO is in gives the company perspectives from many different angles.

We would like to thank everyone for their application; however, only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

ATCO Electric is part of ATCO Ltd. With approximately , employees and assets of $ billion, ATCO is a diversified global holding corporation with investments in Structures & Logistics (workforce housing, innovative modular facilities, construction, site support services, and logistics and operations management), Energy Infrastructure (electricity generation, transmission and distribution; natural gas transmission, distribution and infrastructure development; energy storage and industrial water solutions; and electricity and natural gas retail sales), Transportation (ports and transportation logistics) and Commercial Real Estate. More information can be found at . ATCO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Issued: July ,

Expiry: August ,