Senior Overhead Transmission Lines Civil Engineer

Job Description

Elevate your engineering career by joining us as a Senior Overhead Transmission Lines Civil Engineer. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your expertise to deliver top-tier engineering, estimating, planning, and quality management services. Using your extensive engineering knowledge, you'll direct work on high-complexity projects and operations, ensuring safety, quality, and adherence to budget and timelines. Your analytical acumen and leadership will drive engineering studies and designs, fostering innovation and excellence in every endeavor. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of T&D Lines CIMA+ Leadership Team. This team is working on some of the largest most complex infrastructure projects in Canada.

Primary responsibilities

• Lead a project design team, including junior and intermediate staff.
• Design overhead lines and associated facilities for voltages from 60kV to 735kV in an electric utility environment, including transmission towers, foundations and hardware and fittings.
• Prepare project documentation like reports, specifications, proposals, estimates, design basis, and test plans per CIMA+’s practices
• Lead and execute design work packages with scope, duration, and effort estimates, and manage design tasks including scope, schedule, and cost for existing and new facilities
• Provide signed/sealed engineering deliverables as a Professional of Record per EGBC and CIMA+’s practices
• Offer technical assistance, construction support, and field reviews as required
• Develop design criteria considering multi-disciplinary inputs from the project team
• Lead the structural design, analysis, and detailing for structures, foundations and hardware assemblies. Review manufacturer shop drawings
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior staff. Review of designs prepared by others, following established practices.

Additional Responsibilities

• Develop and implement safe engineering solutions for the high-complexity projects and operations, ensuring they meet major scope requirements for major utilities in Western Canada
• Conduct independent studies and analyses, contribute to the development of technical standards, recommend safe designs, and provide mentorship to enhance the future capabilities of CIMA+’s engineering team
• Develop and administer procedures, methods, and controls for planning, scheduling, cost control, and technical conformance, ensuring a consistent and robust Engineering Standards process.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, review project schedules, resources, and budgets, and monitor expenditures to ensure project completion is safe, high-quality, on time, and within budget.
• Plan, organize, and direct complex engineering and geoscience activities, making critical technical decisions and recommendations to ensure successful project implementation and resource management at CIMA+.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering or equivalent experience
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience or over 10 year as fully certified engineer
• Registered member of a Professional Engineering association in Canada, or eligible for registration in Canada
• Proficient with the PLS-CADD suite design /analysis software and CAD systems, along with familiarity of drawing standards
• Effective communication abilities in English, including analytical skills, interpersonal communication, and presentations. French is an asset.
• Construction / Field work experience is required.

At CIMA+, we value diversity of talent and perspective. You think you can add value, but don't meet all the job requirements? We invite you to apply, because everyone has something unique to offer. The outstanding talents that choose to join us at CIMA+ soon realize that we go all out to encourage them to grow. We look forward to hearing how you can contribute to our success.

Why choose CIMA+? Because we offer you:

• Comprehensive Group Benefits available from day one for all permanent employees working at least 20 hours per week
• Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with up to 4% employer contribution
• As an employee-owned company, an annual opportunity to purchase shares for all employees
• Flexible work schedule in a hybrid work model
• Work/Life balance policy across Canada
• 3-5 weeks of vacation, based on years of relevant experience
• Tailored training to improve your existing skills

For more information about this job opportunity, please contact Eric Fenyedi

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Additional Information

At CIMA+, we recognize the richness and diversity of each individual’s experience. Compensation for this role is therefore based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications, while maintaining internal equity. The level and associated salary may vary depending on the candidate’s profile.

CIMA+ uses an applicant tracking system that includes an automated match score feature. However, this score is not used to screen, assess, or select applicants. All hiring decisions are made through human review.

Ethics and integrity are fundamental values at CIMA+. That is why we are committed to ensuring equal access to resources and opportunities for candidates, regardless of their identity (race, ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socio-economic status or background, etc.).

In keeping with the principles of employment equity, we encourage all applications, including, but not limited to, those from women, Indigenous people, people with disabilities and visible minorities. We also encourage candidates to complete the self-identification form when applying for employment.

Accommodations are available on request. Your Business Partner will process your request.

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