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Senior Electrical Engineer, Hydro (18-Month Term)

Senior Electrical Engineer, Hydro (18-Month Term)

TransAlta Corporation • Toronto, Canada
5 days ago
Salary
CA$18.00 hourly
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Temporary
Job description
Senior Electrical Engineer, Hydro (18-Month Term)

Location: Canmore, AB, CA

Company: TransAlta

Job Type: Temporary - Hourly

Work Arrangement: Full Time On-Site

A DAY IN THE LIFE

Accountable to provide day‑to‑day engineering support to operations, maintenance, and forced outages to ensure the facility can operate safely and in compliance with technical policies, procedures and standards.

Develop and mentor staff to allow completion of goals.

Provide engineering and technical support for the operating facilities including high‑voltage transformers, breakers, cabling, electrical protection, and generators to resolve non‑routine technical issues.

Develop scope and detailed engineering for plant upgrades.

Identify, document, update and communicate equipment risk and mitigations.

Provide detailed technical risk mitigations into the capital process for both planned outages and non‑turnaround work, including conceptual engineering scopes and risk assessments.

Accountable for providing input into condition assessment and risk assessment work as required by business needs.

Establish a collaborative work environment with team, peers, stakeholders and support groups to ensure issues may be resolved in a professional and productive manner.

Develop and maintain industry relationships to bring innovations and best practices to the Plant Teams.

Complete technical due diligence for M&A projects in line with standards.

Escalate technical issues and risks to the Engineering Coordinator and recommend immediate actions, inspections or testing as required.

Identify and implement innovative solutions to improve current processes and enhance equipment performance/reliability.

Bring industry best practices, innovations and new technologies for evaluation by the business.

Provide emergency support for forced outages.

Demonstrate vision and technical guidance for large‑hydro digitization over the next 5–10 years.

ABOUT YOU

Undergraduate degree or diploma in Engineering or Technology.

Professional Engineering (P.Eng) status in jurisdiction of practising.

15+ years of experience.

Specialized training and certifications in multiple areas related to the discipline.

Provide specialized training to internal staff related to the discipline.

Create policies, procedures, standards, regulatory and legal requirements that apply to the power generation business in operating jurisdictions.

Demonstrated capability to impact the business directly by solving unique and complex problems through innovative services or products.

Ability to understand and articulate complex technical issues to technical and non‑technical audiences.

Capability to lead projects with notable risk and complexity; develop strategy for project execution.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Ability to travel up to 30% of the time to facilities across Alberta, BC and Ontario.

THE PERKS

Annual incentive program.

Pension plan with company‑matching options.

Flexible benefits for you and your family.

WHAT TO EXPECT The successful candidate may be required to complete background checks appropriate to the role, including criminal record, education and employment verification or credit checks, and pre‑employment testing for safety sensitive positions.

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