Specialist Project Engineer – Generation, Transmission Stations, and Dam Safety 21486

Role: Specialist Project Engineer – Generation, Transmission Stations, and Dam Safety
Location of Services: Burnaby, BC – in office 2 days per week
Work Assignment Overview: The Specialist Project Engineer will manage the engineering component (Scope, Schedule, and Cost) of large and/or technically complex projects.
Contract Duration: 1 year with high chance of extension
Rate: INC $115 per hour / T4 $95 per hour

General Description
The E5 – Engineer is a professional engineer or geoscientist who applies engineering knowledge to provide innovative engineering, estimating, planning, and quality management services for medium to high complexity projects and/or operations safely, with quality, within budget, and on time.

Experience and Role Accountabilities

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in a relevant engineering field or equivalent.
• Develop safe engineering solutions by using initiative and judgment to perform tasks, including developing designs, analyzing and resolving problems, and interpreting engineering specifications on medium to highly complex assignments.
• Meet safety, cost, quality, and time objectives by proposing changes in plans and estimated costs, recommending payment for work completed by contractors, preparing progress reports, coordinating work schedules, and other similar tasks.
• Resolve highly technical and unusual design and field engineering problems by conducting independent studies and analysis, exercising independent judgment in selecting and interpreting information, recommending safe engineering designs to support successful operations and/or project completion.
• Participate in engineering practice by conducting independent studies and analysis, contributing to the development of technical standards, exercising judgment in selecting and interpreting information, recommending safe engineering designs, and making decisions related to methods and designs, as well as providing guidance and advice to other engineering professionals to develop future capability.
• Deliver exceptional customer service by communicating with stakeholders and performing activities such as defining the scope of engineering/geoscience services to be provided, establishing the basic design criteria with the client, approving all related technical documentation, and assessing and reporting on work progress against standards, objectives, and specifications to support completion of projects safely, with quality, within budget, and on time.
• Make decisions and recommendations of a complex technical nature, including the establishment of design bases, criteria and concepts, and/or on matters affecting the management of engineering/geoscience resources and activities to support major work assignments for the engineering divisions.

Education and Skills

• Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with Engineers & Geoscientists BC or with another jurisdiction and eligible for registration with Engineers & Geoscientists BC.
• Solid understanding of Digital Sign and Seal Technology, and you may be required to subscribe to a digital seal technology service.
• Intermediate English skills for professional environment, written and spoken.
• Familiarity with CAD systems and drawing standards.
• Ability to use standard industry design/analysis software.
• Intermediate MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

Additional Experience and Role Accountabilities

• A minimum of ten (10) years of substation engineering experience, including significant time working in the electrical utility industry, and a degree in a relevant engineering discipline such as electrical, civil, or structural.
• A minimum of four (4) years of working experience in leading multi-discipline design teams and in protection, control, and telecom systems.

Additional Education and Skills

• Professional Engineer registered with EGBC.
• Solid electric utility engineering background with the ability to think from a transmission system and operations perspective, as well as an ability to understand the interactions and priorities of multi-discipline projects.
• Good working knowledge of project management principles and roles.
• Good working knowledge of design and transmission lines, an asset.

Important Notes

• Prior to commencement on assignment, the selected candidate must have their own sole practitioner or the use of their firm's Permit to Practice with EGBC.
• EGBC Registrants must work under a Professional Practice Management Plan, Quality Management Pillar. The Registrant shall apply their own or their firm's Permit to Practice Number to work that is Sealed by the Registrant. Retention and preservation of all project documentation produced by the Registrant will be retained to satisfy EGBC Bylaws.