Role: MRS Compliance Electrical Engineer
Location of Services: Edmonds/Hybrid
Estimated Work Start Date: 22-Oct-2025
Estimated Work End Date: 31-Oct-2026
Max T4 Rate: $65.08/
Max INC Rate: $76.80/

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

Role Specialty Description:
More details, if any, will be provided in the Work Assignment Requirements section.

Work Assignment Requirements:

This is a reliability and compliance focused role which provides the applicant with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of NERC reliability compliance while working to strengthen BC Hydro's compliance program.

The successful applicant will be working according to a methodology. The methodology entails reviewing various sources of Engineering records to identify elements that meet certain characteristics. We are looking for a intermediate engineer with interest in applying their experience and enhancing their knowledge of the power system and its constituting elements. The successful applicant would have some power system experience and will be deepening this knowledge through working in this role.

Attention to detail, ability to conduct application of criteria while maintaining accuracy and consistency, good documentation skills, and interest in learning more about power system engineering and NERC reliability are necessary.