ENGINEERING- Engineer Senior

Management & Exempt
Employment Status: Full-Time Regular
Short-term Incentive Eligible: Yes
Posting End Date: Open until filled

As the province’s largest energy provider with more than 100 years of knowledge and experience, we proudly deliver renewable energy, natural gas, electricity and propane to 1.3 million customers.

C.'s energy landscape. You’ve built an impressive repertoire of successful large-scale projects and hold extensive telecommunication engineering expertise, with a focus on leadership, innovation and operational excellence. You utilize effective collaboration to engage key stakeholders at every stage and ensure project execution delivers on business objectives. With everything you bring to the table, you’ll excel as our Senior Engineer, Telecommunications.

In this role, you’ll provide strategic and tactical engineering guidance, develop system standards, supervise junior team members, and offer professional services for major telecommunication and radio network projects and operations support activities for critical infrastructure at FortisBC.

FI) engineering standards and Major Projects processes.

• Establish solid technical leadership with the engineering and technical teams and prepare everyone for the successful implementation of current and future projects.
• Work to develop long term strategies for telecommunication systems within the organization.
• Develop project scopes and estimates for both long- and short-term telecommunication and radio network projects.
• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering, with specialization in Telecommunications from a recognized program, with a minimum of 8 years’ industry experience, preferably within a unionized environment.
• Eligibility for professional membership with Engineers and Geoscientists BC is required.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for working collaboratively with a team of engineers and professionals to deliver desirable results to our stakeholders in a high-paced and demanding environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of engineering and design techniques for Operational Technology and related equipment in the utility industry.
• Demonstrated experience applying industry standards relating to telecommunications and radio systems.
• FortisBC acknowledges and respects Indigenous Peoples in Canada, on whose Traditional Territories we all live and work. FortisBC is committed to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and is guided by our Statement of Indigenous Principles.