Distribution Design Technician Trainee

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**Distribution Design Technician Trainee**

Number of positions: 5 Job Location: Surrey Trades Training Centre

Employment type: Permanent Region: Various

Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid

Annual salary: 67,100.00

**What you'll do**
- The Distribution Design Technician Trainee program involves on-the-job training, coaching, and mentoring, and is designed
- to translate your knowledge into practical experience. The program includes orientation training in the Lower Mainland and
- formal training courses.- Design Technician who:
- Provides design delivery and cost estimation services for BC Hydro and customer driven Distribution projects and

programs from project initiation to completion including project coordination and construction support, internal and external
- customer and other stakeholder management, and conducting field work.- Performs extension, improvement, alteration, removal, and end of life design work for BC Hydro and customer driven

Distribution projects and programs related to: single and three phase overhead, civil, and underground primary equipment
- and asset work (including automated equipment); and all types of single and three phase overhead, civil, and underground
- secondary and service work up to and including 1600A services (excluding primary services, feeder civil and feeder
- underground electrical work).
- Major Responsibilities and Duties
- Upon completion of the training program successful applicants will be able to:
- Perform extension, improvement, alteration, removal, and end of life design work for BC Hydro and customer driven

Distribution projects and programs related to:

- a. Single and three phase overhead, civil, and underground primary equipment and asset work (including automated
- equipment).
- b. All types of single and three phase overhead, civil, and underground secondary and service work up to and including
- 1600A services (excluding primary services, feeder civil and feeder underground electrical work).- Conduct field studies for a variety of distribution projects.
- Liaise with internal and external customers and stakeholders requiring or impacted by design services.
- Be responsible for the portfolio management and coordination of assigned design projects.
- Ensure designs meet appropriate regulatory and stakeholder requirements and construction standards. Engage with

appropriate resources (such as Engineers or construction crews) to validate design constructability and the impact on future
- operation and maintenance, as required. Address and document known safety risks prior to construction.- Perform some or all the duties of lower-level Distribution Design jobs.

Through the three (3) year Distribution Design Technician Trainee program, the successful applicant will progress from
- lower complexity and high volume projects to higher complexity and lower volume projects. The high volume, low
- complexity projects will develop customer communication and project management skills. During this program the
- successful applicant will develop intermediate working knowledge of:
- BC Hydro Distribution Standards (overhead, underground, civil and revenue metering).
- Distribution Instructions (DIs), BC Hydro ’s Electric Tariff, and electrical code.
- Regulatory considerations and permitting (pipelines, navigable waters, railways, etc.).
- Environmental and Indigenous (including First Nations engagement requirements) considerations, impacts and

regulations.- The Joint Ownership and Use Agreement and the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) Protocol
- Agreement.- When to engage with Engineering to meet professional practice regulations.
- Field safety requirements and specifications (Power Systems Safety Protection (PSSP), Safety Practice Regulations

(SPRs), etc.) including the usage of appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), etc.- Design and work issuing processes and systems, drafting, Geographic Information System (GIS) and design engineering

software.- Drafting fundamentals and surveying, including associated tools, and the ability to read legal, construction and

architectural plans.- Project management techniques.
- Transmission Engineering engagement requirements when working on or around existing or proposed transmission

assets.- Property rights and the process for negotiating and establishing statutory rights-of-way for distribution ass