Senior Automation Engineer - Substations

Your Opportunity

Our Burnaby office has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Automation Engineer to join the team. This position offers you the opportunity to work in a project team environment with other engineers and designers involved in the detailed electrical design and project management of high voltage substation and power projects.

The successful candidate will be working in the areas of substations, renewable energy, air & gas insulated substation engineering & equipment between the 5kV to 500kV levels. The candidate should understand substation and power system protection schemes as they relate to the design of protection and control systems.

Your Key Responsibilities

Act as the Automation Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing technical governance across multiple projects and programs 

Perform quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) reviews of Automation designs and deliverables

Prepare technical reports that clearly communicate engineering concepts and meet client requirements

Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams (e.g., electrical, civil, structural, telecom, P&C, SCADA) to deliver integrated designs

Lead and mentor Junior and Intermediate engineers

Provide review and approval of RTU, PLC, HMI, embedded controller, and communications system configurations 

Provide regular progress updates on assigned deliverables and project milestones

Support commissioning activities, field engineering, and site troubleshooting

Interface directly with clients and provide support in coordinating project execution

Support drafting activities, as required, to complete deliverables

Development of Project Estimates

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

Eligible for registration as a Professional Engineer with Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC) or equivalent.

15+ years of relevant P&C and Automation experience; experience working with utilities in North America is an asset (BC Hydro experience preferred).

Office Location and Schedule

Typical office environment working with computers.

Stantec offers a flexible work environment (a hybrid model of working in the office and at home).

Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

Hybrid work model to work from home is possible.

Location – Vancouver / Edmonton / Calgary.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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