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Senior Electrical Designer/Checkers complete advanced, complex, and confidential tasks requiring strong understanding of engineering principles and a high standard of designing and drafting skills. Understanding of control system will be an asset.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides design services by gathering information, making studies, computing calculations, and preparing detailed design and deliverables in accordance with project requirements
• Designs components or portions of systems and modifies existing designs to develop or improve products and facilitate manufacturing operations
• Gathers information, makes studies, computes calculations, and prepares original rough layouts and sketches to present design proposals
• Coordinates design criteria with engineering providing layout skid packages including MCC building, cable tray and lighting layouts, and motor schematic drawings
• Investigates pertinent design factors, such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replace ability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements
• Checks completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformity to codes, regulations, and standards, procedures, specifications, critical interface compatibility, productibility aspects, and dimensional accuracy of calculations
• Checks for conformity to design/drafting standards, design specifications, and economy of fabrication and identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies
• Coordinates assigned engineering and design work with other project groups
• Recommends revisions and/or improvements in design layout to responsible engineers or designers
• Participates in project planning and execution, man-hour estimation, and schedule development
• Supervises and provides technical direction to intermediate and junior designers

Prerequisites

Education

• A degree in Electrical Engineering Technology or equivalent education and experience
• ASET membership is an asset

Experience

• 15 years of directly related experience in electrical design of oil and gas processing facilities with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the Canadian industry
• 5 years’ checking experience
• Experience with an EPC work environment
• Fabrication shop designing and checking experience
• Proficiency in latest version of AutoCAD

Other

• 2-3 years’ experience with 3D CADWorx
• 3+ years’ experience with 2D Acad
• Experience with Autodesk programs including AutoCAD and Inventor
• Familiarity with CEC, NEC industry regulations, and standards
• Must be eligible to work in Canada
• As a condition of employment, employees are required upon hire to sign a Drug-Free Workplace Agreement, a Conflict-of-Interest Agreement, and Confidentiality and Invention Agreement

Required Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong command of the English language
• Excellent organizational, time management, and planning skills
• Ability to meet objectives while working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and strict deadlines
• Adaptable to changing demands
• Ability to take independent action to accomplish objectives
• Excellent reading, research, and analytical skills
• Ability to interpret and utilize complex information
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to monitor the quality of own work
• Advanced mathematics and science skills
• Problem solving
• Ability to resolve technical problems
• Ability to create systems for checking accuracy
• Ability to understand verbal and written instructions

Relationships

Internal

• Must work in a team environment
• Attends meetings and liaises with Electrical Designers and Checkers, multidisciplinary Designers and Drafters, Engineering, and Fabrication
• Confers with shop and departmental personnel while gathering information
• May be required to prepare internal reports

External

• Not applicable

Authority Level

• Technical decisions are routine in nature and will follow precedents and procedures
• Manager is readily available for assistance and guidance
• Work is reviewed for accuracy and conformance with prescribed procedures

Work Environment

Specific Work Conditions

• The work is performed in an office setting and requires the need to deal with a diversity of people when responding to interdepartmental inquiries
• Coping with frequent interruption and changing priorities
• Required to attend meetings at other buildings

Physical Requirements

• Requires ability to sit at a workstation for extended periods using a computer, reading manuals, etc.
• Occasional ability to lift, carry, and put away file boxes weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Manual dexterity for data input, paperwork and use of standard office equipment
• Must wear company-standard PPE when entering fabrication shops or visiting project sites. Project site PPE includes CSA approved steel toed boots and long pants
• Walking on uneven ground is to be expected at project sites

Performance Measures

Time Management

• Undertakes effective daily planning to assure tasks are completed on time
• Maintains a professional attitude under time constraints and changing priorities

Accuracy

• Approaches work methodically and with precision
• The outcome of the work is complete and error free
• Identifies proper standards and codes
• Consistently monitors the accuracy of work performed by self and others
• Contacts appropriate departments and personnel in order to resolve discrepancies
• Work processes are monitored and evaluated and new work procedures are developed if necessary
• Reports are error free and professionally presented within the scope of the position

Communication Skills

• Understands and follows written and oral directions
• Exhibits strong analytical skills
• Ability to communicate effectively and diplomatically with diverse individuals
• Ability to communicate complex information and ideas and provide clear explanations to internal and external clients
• Ensures the flow of information in all necessary directions at the right time
• Can read, interpret, and utilize complex materials, computer-based designs, drawings, specialized technical manuals, and specifications
• Has a positive working relationship with other staff
• Willing to work toward the company’s goals and timelines

Quantity and Quality of Work

• Consistently produces error free work within appropriate timeframe
• Effectively deals with changing priorities in order to meet tight deadlines while maintaining a professional manner
• Demonstrates the ability to learn new systems and procedures
• Offers additional assistance when required
• Demonstrates ability to gather information and make independent decisions within the scope of the position
• Keeps abreast of new technology, systems, processes, and regulations
• Able to find innovative solutions to problems through research, testing, and analysis

The duties and responsibilities outlined in this document are not meant to be an exhaustive list but rather an overview of the job. The employee is responsible for completing all duties necessary to help fulfill departmental goals.

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