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Senior P&C Commissioning Engineer 20624
- Location Burnaby
- Job type Contract
- Salary $65 - 96 per hour
- Discipline Construction and Infrastructure
- Reference JOB-28309
Role: Senior P&C Commissioning Engineer
Location of Services: Edmonds, BC - Hybrid, in office 3 days per week
Contract Duration: 12 months - High Chance of extension
Max T4 Rate: $79.64/hour
Max INC Rate: $96.36/hour
Note: Travel to construction sites required
Experience and Role Accountabilities:
- Minimum Experience: 8 years in a relevant engineering field or equivalent.
- Engineering Solutions: Develop safe engineering solutions, including designs, problem resolution, and interpreting specifications on medium complexity and scope assignments.
- Project Management Support: Assist in meeting safety, cost, quality, and time objectives by proposing plan changes, recommending payment for work completed by contractors, preparing progress reports, and coordinating work schedules.
- Technical Problem Solving: Conduct studies and analysis to resolve highly technical and unusual design and field engineering problems, recommend safe engineering designs.
- Engineering Practice Participation: Conduct independent studies and analysis, contribute to technical standards, recommend safe engineering designs, and provide guidance to other engineering professionals.
Important Notes:
- Permit to Practice: Candidates must have their own sole practitioner, or the use of their firm’s, Permit to Practice with Engineers & Geoscientists BC (EGBC).
- Professional Practice Management: Work under a Professional Practice Management Plan, applying the Permit to Practice Number to work that is sealed by the Registrant.
- Project Documentation: Retention and preservation of all project documentation produced during the contract to satisfy EGBC Bylaws.
Education and Skills:
- Professional Registration: Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with Engineers & Geoscientists BC or eligible for registration.
- Digital Sign and Seal Technology: May require subscription to a service offered by Notarius.
- Language Skills: Intermediate English skills for professional environments, both written and spoken.
- Technical Skills: Familiarity with CAD systems, standard industry design/analysis software, and intermediate MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Additional Experience and Role Accountabilities:
- Technical Background: Strong technical background in transmission system protection and control, including practical and theoretical knowledge in power system parameters and protection systems.
- Commissioning Work: Focus on providing commissioning acceptance services and advanced level technical support for the P&C systems on the transmission system. Interaction with a wide variety of business units (Integrated Planning, Grid Operations, Field Operations, Generation, Distribution, and Asset Management).
- Technical Services: Include power system disturbance analysis, P&C system integration testing, wide area system monitoring, and real-time operations support.
- Field Support: Provide support for Communications, Protection and Control (CPC) field technologists, perform field reviews for P&C equipment installations and modifications, accept and seal commissioning documentation, and author/review P&C commissioning standards.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Provide support to project teams where P&C complexity exists, investigate and recommend actions for abnormal system conditions and major disturbances.
- Operational Support: Support real-time operation of the power system by conducting and interpreting technical studies, formulating strategies and options, and determining and documenting operating procedures.
- Testing and Procedures: Coordinate special testing requirements and operating procedures on the integrated system. Prepare contingency plans and short-term operating plans for abnormal conditions.
- Committee Participation: Address technical problems on multi-disciplinary internal committees as a seasoned professional.
Must-Haves:
- Experience: Minimum of 8 years in a relevant engineering field.
- Professional Registration: P.Eng. or P.Geo. with Engineers & Geoscientists BC or eligible for registration.
- Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of P&C testing and commissioning best practices, field environment experience, fault analysis, and investigations.
- Communication Skills: Demonstrated technical writing and presentation skills, strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Language Skills: Intermediate English skills for professional environments, both written and spoken.