Project Engineer

Role: E5 - Specialist Project Engineer – Generation, Transmission Stations, and Dam Safety
Location of Services: Burnaby, BC, Edmonds - A02 (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 months
Max INC Rate: $100.89
Max T4 Rate: $83.29

Engineer- E5 - Specialist Project Engineer – Generation, Transmission Stations, and Dam Safety

Role Family: Engineering and Related Services
Role Group: Engineering
Role Specialty Title: Specialist Project Engineer - Generation, Transmission Stations, and Dam Safety

Work Assignment Overview

The Specialist Project Engineer will manage the engineering component (Scope, Schedule, and Cost) of large and/or technically complex projects.

This position is for a Project Engineer Specialist within the Stations Project Engineering team in Engineering Services. Our Project Engineering teams perform an integral role in the delivery of infrastructure projects at the Client. Project Engineering team members work with cross-functional teams to ensure that project designs and installation are safe, effective, and meet the requirements of the Client.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working on a wide variety of projects, each with its own unique scope, assets, stakeholders, risks, and technical aspects. While the work is based out of Burnaby, you’ll get to travel to the Client's facilities located throughout British Columbia and may occasionally travel to other parts of North America and internationally.

Role General Description

The Specialist Engineer is a professional engineer 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.

Role General Accountabilities

• Develop safe engineering solutions by using initiative and judgement to perform tasks including developing designs, analyzing and resolving problems, and interpreting engineering specifications on medium to highly complex assignments for the Client’s projects and operations.
• 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 for the Client.
• Participate in the Client’s 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 at the Client.
• 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 at the Client.

Role Specific Accountabilities

• In the Specialist Project Engineer role, you will manage the engineering component (Scope, Schedule, and Cost) of large and/or technically complex projects which typically have a considerable profile, complexity, and risk. Projects may include work being designed entirely within the Client, entirely outside of the Client, or a combination thereof. Typical projects include: transmission substation upgrades, new generating units, powerhouse reconstruction, major plant or unit upgrades, Dam Safety projects, and spillway upgrades.
• You may perform the Owner's Engineer Lead role on projects where some or all of the engineering work is done by a third party such as an outside consultant or equipment vendor. As an Owner's Engineer Lead, you will coordinate and lead the internal review and acceptance of work designed by a third party.
• You will work closely with project managers to manage the scope, schedule, and cost of the project.
• You will identify and manage the project technical risks, including system integration with the existing transmission and generation systems, and other issues.
• You work with functional managers to establish the engineering teams on your projects. You establish design and review plans, strategies, schedules, and resource requirements for the engineering work on your projects.
• You coordinate and oversee the development of technical specifications and drawings and may manage engineering consultant's contracts.
• You work with Construction and Contract Management, the Engineering teams, Quality Management, and Field Operations to ensure that technical support is provided during manufacturing, construction, and commissioning and that technical issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• You will make or review recommendations and other types of communications to management on complex project matters. This may include presenting to senior management and the executive.
• You will coach members of your project teams to help them to resolve issues or advance their work. You may mentor and coach others performing project engineer roles, either within the department or in other groups.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• A degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering, and registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in good standing with Engineers and Geoscientists BC or with another jurisdiction in Canada.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of progressive and comprehensive engineering experience, with a primary focus in the design of transmission substations, hydroelectric power plants, and/or dams and associated equipment. Engineering experience through the total project life cycle, from conceptual design through to testing and commissioning. Candidates with less experience may be considered at a corresponding position level.
• A minimum of four (4) years leading and coordinating multi-discipline design on medium to large projects, preferably on projects similar in nature to the Client in terms of size, complexity, and stakeholders.
• Solid electric utility engineering background with the ability to think from a transmission system and operations perspective.
• Able to understand the impact of the project on the generation system and operations and to understand the interactions and priorities required to deliver multi-discipline projects.
• Good understanding of Project Management processes.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, including writing, are required in order to advance the project, including coordinating and influencing various parties both within the Client and with external delivery partners and stakeholders.
• Excellent English skills for a professional environment, written and spoken, with the ability to brief senior management on complex project issues in a clear and concise manner.
• Familiarity with CAD systems and drawing standards.
• Ability to use standard industry design/analysis software.
• Excellent MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

Additional Experience and Skills

• Good working knowledge of project management principles and roles.
• Experience managing Owner’s reviews of multi-discipline engineering work being completed externally is an asset.
• Strong knowledge of the Client’s project delivery processes and design practice is an asset.
• Site experience on large construction projects such as hydroelectric generation stations, dams, transmission substations, or transmission lines is an asset.
• Good working knowledge of design and transmission lines, an asset.
• Advanced decision-making and conflict resolution skills.

Other Requirements

• 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 provided to the Client through this assignment shall work under the Client’s 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 during their contract with the Client will be retained by the Client to satisfy EGBC Bylaws.
• The Client uses a Digital Sign and Seal Technology. You will be required to subscribe to a digital seal technology service offered by Notarius.