Project Engineer - Transmission Stations

Overview:
The E5 – Engineer is a professional engineer or geoscientist who applies engineering knowledge to provide innovative engineering, estimating, planning, and quality management services for medium to high complexity projects and/or operations safely, with quality, within budget, and on time.

What you will be doing:

• A minimum ten (10) 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 to highly complex assignments for company projects and operations.

• 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 the company.

• Participate in the company 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 the company.

• 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 and reporting on work progress against standards, objectives, and specifications to support completion of projects safely, with quality, within budget and on time.

• 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 to support major work assignments for the engineering divisions at the company.

Other Information:

• 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 the company through this assignment shall work under the company'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 the company will be retained by the company to satisfy EGBC Bylaws.

What you must have:

• An Engineering degree in a relevant discipline such as electrical, civil, structural, or mechanical recognized by Canadian Universities.

• A minimum of ten (10) years of utility engineering experience including significant time working on electrical substation projects.

• Four (4+) years or more of project engineering or project management experience either in a formal capacity or while acting as a lead engineer or work package manager.

• Registered, or eligible for immediate registration, as a Professional Engineer with Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC).

• Good working experience in leading multi-discipline design teams in protection, control, and telecom systems.

• Must have PMP certification.

• 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

• Expert knowledge of project management principles and roles.

• Good working knowledge of design and transmission lines is an asset

• Excellent relationship management skills.

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills with an ability to present key project information to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Good technical knowledge of substation design, transmission lines and interconnections.

• Be able to build and maintain strong relationships and high levels of engagement with Project Managers and Delivery Partners

Salary/Rate Range: $98.00- $120.00 per hour

Term: 12-month contract; most likely to extend


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