Specialist Electrical Engineer

At Suncor, we produce and provide energy.

When you join Suncor, you become part of a company that has built a solid foundation for both business and employee success. We are a place where talented people thrive. As part of our team, you play a vital role in delivering energy we all rely on, and you'll make a meaningful impact in the communities where we live and work.

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED!

What we offer

We recognize your contribution and offer a range of rewards and development opportunities designed to support your success. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Suncor and the region where you work.

• Strong compensation: we offer competitive compensation, regional-based uplifts, annual bonuses, and long-term financial rewards. We also help you save for your future by offering pension programs, and savings plans with company matching
• Benefits: utilize an employee assistance program and comprehensive company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family to support your mental, physical, and financial well-being
• Generous time-off: enjoy generous paid vacation time and personal time-off to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Talent development programs: Internal mobility, succession planning, and employee training and development programs are just a few ways we’re dedicated to your development
• Relocation assistance: We provide support with lease cancellation or home sale, temporary accommodations, rental home search, moving and storage costs, spousal assistance and more

We are seeking a senior electrical engineering professional to support the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of the Base Plant high-voltage T&D system, including adherence to approved facility ratings and applicable FAC-008 requirements. This operations-facing role focuses on near-real-time system support, operating decision quality, system risk and outage-risk management, and system performance stewardship, and is distinct from long-range system planning.

Minimum Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience; P. Eng. designation required
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline
• Experience supporting high-voltage T&D systems in an industrial, utility, or power systems environment, with strong knowledge of power system operations, operating limits, system risk assessment, outage management, and operating-role boundaries with certified operating personnel
• Strong ability to interpret single-line diagrams, electrical drawings, alarms, sequence-of-events data, system trends, and other operating data to support event investigation, power-quality analysis, and system performance assessment
• Working knowledge of applicable industry standards, electrical safety practices, and AESO/NERC/Alberta reliability requirements relevant to T&D operations and bulk electric system support, including approved facility ratings and FAC-008
• Experience with high-voltage substations and T&D assets such as transformers, breakers, protection systems, and reactive devices
• Experience with SAP, Microsoft Office, engineering reports, stewardship reporting, and digital operating platforms is considered an asset

Don’t have all the qualifications listed? That’s ok! Apply anyway. We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical support to T&D Operations by monitoring real-time and near-real-time system conditions, including voltage, frequency, loading, alarms, abnormal states, and restoration readiness, and by supporting outages, operational events, abnormal system conditions, on-call coverage, and after-hours consultation as required
• Identify, assess, and communicate system risks through daily and weekly operational reviews, supporting issue prioritization, alarm governance, mitigation planning, and alignment with operating priorities
• Maintain and communicate T&D operating envelopes, system limits, standing instructions, operating procedures, approved facility ratings, and applicable FAC-008 requirements, and apply these in day-to-day operational guidance in coordination with certified operating personnel
• Prepare outage endorsement and risk review documentation for planned outages, switching activities, special configurations, and non-standard operating scenarios, recommending mitigation measures as needed
• Maintain operating single-line diagrams and support improvements to supervisory displays, control room visibility, and overall system understanding
• Lead or support power-quality analysis, system studies, event investigations, and performance reporting by reviewing alarms, sequence-of-events data, protection/relay records, and operating trends to support event response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, KPI tracking, and risk repository updates
• Provide technical input to projects, turnaround planning, and cross-functional improvement initiatives to improve system operability, resilience, and execution quality

Location and other Key details

• You will work out of our Base Plant site in Fort McMurray, Alberta
• This is an office-based role with field interface as required to support T&D Operations, outages, system events, and operational risk reviews
• Hours of work are a regular 40-hour work week, Monday to Friday, with additional support for outages, operational events, on-call coverage, and after-hours consultation as required
• This position is safety sensitive

Think we are a fit? Apply now!

Suncor is committed to providing equal opportunities for employment and building an inclusive, results-oriented and high-performance culture where all members of our team feel safe, valued and respected.