Distribution Co-op

**Location**: Burnaby, BC
**Reports to**: Senior Manager, Lower Mainland Operations
**Job Posting#**: 105
**Application Deadline**: Until Filled

Primary Engineering is excited to work with electrical engineering students to offer practical experience in the planning and design of overhead and underground electrical distribution facilities. We cultivate a strong culture of teaching, mentoring, and teamwork that has made our Burnaby office a great place to work. This role is open to students for 8, 12, or 16-month term starting in September 2025.

**Applications should include a short cover letter, CV, and current transcript.**

**Responsibilities**:

- Electrical and civil design to support underground and overhead electrical distribution infrastructure (4kV - 25kV system voltages).
- Material take-offs and project estimating.
- Voltage drop and transformer loading calculations.
- Cable pull calculations using Pull Planner.
- Pole modelling calculations using SPIDAcalc and PLS-CADD.
- Reviewing engineering consultant drawings such as civil, architectural, landscape, and on-site electrical to coordinate and eliminate design conflicts.
- Site visits to inspect electrical and civil electrical infrastructure and stake pole and anchor locations.
- Project schedule management and tracking.
- Collaboration with project team (project managers, designers, drafters, and site inspectors) to ensure projects are executed successfully.
- Design coordination with external clients, engineering consultants, utility approval teams, municipalities, material and construction suppliers, and other stakeholders.
- Drafting/redlining in AutoCAD and Bluebeam.
- Creating and updating tools and automation using Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic Application, and other software.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Successful completion of at least one year of an engineering program at an accredited university or college (electrical or civil preferred).
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop business relationships conducted in a professional manner.
- Demonstrated self-motivation and drive for improvement.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities concurrently.
- Class 5 driver’s license.

**Additional Assets**:

- Experience in design and cost estimating of electrical distribution projects.
- Experience working in the shallow utility industry.
- Experience with automation using Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic Application.
- Exposure to telecommunications, natural gas, street lighting, traffic signals, buildings electrical, civil, landscape, or architectural design.
- Familiarity with BC Hydro design standards.

Salary Range: $23.00 - $27.00 per hour

**ABOUT US***:
Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

Primary is the proud recipient of **EHRC's Workplace Culture Innovator Award**, recognizing our commitment to fostering a health, inclusive, and positive work environment.

Primary is recognized
by **The Career Directory**
for excellence in graduate recruitment.

**GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress***:
Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit.

We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.

**HEALTH & SAFETY***:
The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal.

Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a