Operations Engineer

Branch: Electric

Affiliation: Management & Exempt

Employment Status: Full-Time Regular

Expected Hiring Range: $95,200.00 to $111,900.00 Annually

Short-term Incentive Eligible: Yes

Workplace Flexibility: No

Posting End Date: Open until filled

As the province's largest energy provider with more than 100 years of knowledge and experience, we proudly deliver renewable energy, natural gas, electricity and propane to 1.3 million customers.

We're actively seeking new talent to join our mission of transforming B.C.'s energy landscape. As one of BC's Top Employers with a diverse team of over 2,700 employees, we are committed to a safe and inclusive culture where each of us can connect, belong, and grow. Join us, and together, let's shape a brighter future for B.C.

Position Overview
You're a skilled individual with in-depth facility and operations knowledge and expertise. Combined with your meticulous planning skills, your overall understanding of this field allows you to utilize your experience to support compliance and implement practices that positively impact our projects and initiatives.

As our Operations Engineer, you'll support our efforts to maintain regulatory compliance, analyze outage data and collaborate across Engineering, Operations, and Vegetation Management to recommend corrective actions.

You'll also support outage scheduling, develop documentation, and provide technical guidance on SCADA/RTCA, water and vegetation management, and protection schemes. If you're detail-oriented and thrive in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you

In this role, you will:

• Perform independent inspections of a limited and defined scope (e.g., number of variables, type of regulations, locations) to ensure compliance with BC MRS requirements affecting System Operations and/or Engineering, which includes making engineering recommendations for corrective actions, developing processes/documentation, maintaining compliance documentation, and assisting on broader scope inspections.
• Gather and perform in-depth analysis of data for system outage events. Evaluate data/observations and prepare technical report of findings. Work with Engineering, Vegetation Management, and Operations to make engineering recommendations for corrective actions that will increase system reliability. Track and follow-up on corrective actions to ensure that issues are corrected in a timely manner.
• Develop, review, and approve operational planning analyses for system outages including providing and coordinating support to/from System Operations, Project Management, and Engineering for outage scheduling.
• Provide other technical direction and support related to System Operations and/or Engineering to the System Operators and Management including, but not limited to operational issues, outage coordination, project scope development, SCADA/RTCA, water management, vegetation management, reliability, and protection schemes.

What it takes:

• Registered as a Professional Engineer with EGBC.
• A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from a recognized program with four to seven years of related experience.
• Exceptional knowledge of electrical utilities in system operations, protection, generation, transmission, or distribution engineering.
• An effective team player and collaborator who works well with various stakeholders.
• A deadline-driven individual with a solid analytic mindset and the ability to multi-task.
• Safety forward with a focus on finding solutions.

To learn more about the recruitment process with FortisBC, please visit the You're Applying. What now? page for additional information.

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