RQ00899 - Transmission Estimator

Ready to make a difference? Join our client as an Engineer! You'll leverage your engineering expertise to deliver top-notch engineering, estimating, planning, and quality management services for medium complexity projects. Your mission: ensure safety, quality, and timeliness, all while staying within budget. Be the driving force behind our success! 🚀

General Description
•The E3 – Engineer is a fully qualified and accredited engineering professional who applies theoretical and practical knowledge to provide engineering design, estimating, planning, and quality management services for low to medium complexity projects and/or operations safely, with quality, within budget, and on time.


Advantages
An opportunity to work and grow with renowned company at a competitve pay rate

Responsibilities
Duties:

Engineering has a challenging opportunity for an intermediate level engineer to join a team of professionals based at Edmonds office in Burnaby, BC. This Engineer will be part of our Transmission Stations and Lines Estimating team, providing support for capital and maintenance projects.

Specific duties include:

• Estimating and planning small to medium capital projects/programs with a focus on rehabilitation work, upgrades and expansions to existing facilities. Ensure that work is not only technically correct but also complies with business drivers and goals, standards, policies, practices and processes.
• Working with multidisciplinary project teams (internal or external), including managing the scope, schedule and cost of assigned Work Packages.
• Delivering presentations related to cost estimates to various levels of management.
• Maintaining good relationships with other groups (cross-organizational, cross-function/business unit) involved in the delivery of projects, including other departments, consultants, contractors and suppliers.
• Maintaining knowledge of modern engineering techniques and processes, construction methodology, and keeping up to date with construction cost trends and other factors that affect project costs.
• Being the Professional of Record for engineering documents produced
• Occasional travel to facilities located throughout British Columbia.

Qualifications
The successful candidate must have:
• Degree in Electrical or Civil Engineering (preference will be given to Electrical candidates) recognized by Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (EGBC).
• Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or eligible for registration with EGBC.
• A minimum of 4 years of combined experience in estimating, design, or construction of industrial or infrastructure type projects, preferably on substation or transmission line projects. At least 2 years of direct cost estimating experience (preferably in substations and transmission lines) is required.
• Experience in estimating costs and developing schedules for utilities, heavy industrial or infrastructure projects.
• A valid class 5 driver's license.

Preference given to those candidates that possess experience and working knowledge with the following:
• Experience and knowledge in capital planning.
• Experience preparing substation conceptual layouts based on high level scope and single-line diagrams
• Experience in other substation engineering disciplines (Protection & Control, SCADA/Telecom)
• Experience in transmission lines (69kV to 500kV) design and construction
• Experience in Primavera P6 and specialist estimating software ( @RISK or equivalent).
• Experience in preparing owner's estimates including engineering, construction management, and scheduling.
• Field experience on large construction projects.


Summary
Full time in office at the beginning for training, then transitioning into a hybrid role.

Interested candidates can submit their resumes directly to john.yamazaki@randstad.ca

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.