Role: Operational Technology Engineer
Work Location: Burnaby, BC - 2 days per week in office - 40 hours per week
Contract Duration: Start Date: 2025-12-01 - End Date: 2026-11-30
Vacancies: 2
Max INC Rate: $60.80/
Max T4 Rate: $51.53

Experience and Role Accountabilities

• A minimum four (4) years of in a relevant engineering field or equivalent. • Develop safe engineering solutions by using initiative and judgement to perform activities such as developing designs, analyzing and resolving problems, and interpreting engineering specifications on low to medium complexity assignments for projects and/or operations.
• Assist project or operations management to meet safety, cost, quality, and time objectives by performing activities such as proposing changes in plans and estimated costs, recommending payment for work completed by contractors, preparing progress reports, coordinating work schedules and other similar tasks.
• Participate in BC Hydro’s engineering practice by conducting independent studies and analysis, exercising judgment in selecting and interpreting information, recommending safe engineering designs, and making typical decisions related to standard methods and designs so that BC Hydro’s engineering standards are maintained.
• Perform periodic tasks independently which may include on-site construction quality control and monitoring to ensure design compliance.
• Engage with BC Hydro’s senior engineering team where engineering problems are difficult, complex, or unusual to support BC Hydro’s management of engineering risk.

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.
• BC Registrants provided to BC Hydro through this assignment shall work under BC Hydro’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 BC Hydro will be retained by BC Hydro to satisfy EGBC Bylaws.

Education and Skills

•University graduate in applied science or engineering
•Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with Engineers & Geoscientists BC or with another jurisdiction and eligible for registration as such with Engineers & Geoscientists BC •BC Hydro uses a Digital Sign and Seal Technology. You may be required to subscribe to a digital seal technology service offered by Notarius •Familiarity with CAD systems and drawing standardsAbility to use standard industry design/analysis software
• Intermediate MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Intermediate English skills for professional environment, written and spoken

Work Assignment Requirements

This Operational Technology Services (OTS) Engineering role has special emphasis on the design and support of the industrial networks at the Generating stations. Successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary team of 10 Engineers and IT Advisors that collaborates with internal and external stakeholder resources in delivering a number of projects or initiatives related to Generation Infrastructure and Cyber Security.

Main duties are:

• Manage Generation Capital project OT Services related activities from the design to implementation phase
• Support project and construction team in all phases of the project
• Act as a primary team contact for capital project status, tracking and deliverables
• Continuously improve and document work processes using Visio diagrams
• Develop or update work instructions, maintenance and engineering standards related to the role
• Host cross functional business unit meetings, take minutes, and track action items to completion
• Support the team with NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) compliance activities related to annual drawing reviews
• Design and integrate ICS devices into the Generation Plant LAN
• Update Generation Network infrastructure Engineering Drawings using AutoCAD
• Liaise with engineering, planning and other business units
• Coordinate Vendor input and document device technical capabilities

Qualifications:

* A recognized Electrical (or related) Engineering degree and registered, or eligible for immediate registration, as a Professional Engineer with Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC).
* A minimum of 4 years of progressive engineering experience, with experience in the area of operational cyber assets (e.g. network switches, controllers, meters, etc.) operational/industrial networking and/or cyber security of operational cyber assets. We will accept applications with less qualifications reflective of the rate.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to clearly produce process diagrams and reports.
* The ability to present in front of an audience.
* Familiarity with NERC CIP standards and experience in NERC CIP compliance is an asset.