
Senior or Specialist Protection & Controls Engineer
- Vancouver, BC
- 156.000-176.000 $ par an
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to power utility clients across North America
- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team, and individual needs.
- A team that is focused on individual growth, work life balance, and healthy team dynamics
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews. CAD $ 156,000 - $176,000
- Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle
- Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests
- Provide technical leadership and support to a team of engineers and designers to develop protection, control, and metering system design for electrical substations ranging from 12 kV to 500 kV from conceptual stage through construction and commissioning.
- On assigned projects, serve as Technical Lead and:
- Developing protection planning and application documents, one-lines, schematics, panel layouts and wiring diagrams for power system protective relaying and metering systems.
- Performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility transmission systems.
- Reviewing or preparing engineering drawings/documents, specifications, construction and outage staging plans, and inspection and testing plans/procedures.
- Supporting construction and commissioning activities.
- Performing factory inspections.
- Participating in client technical, Safety by Design and constructability review meetings
- Reviewing or preparing project conceptual, feasibility and definition phase scopes and estimates.
- Liaise with clients at the discipline level on technical matters.
- Mentor junior engineers.
- Minimum 8 years of utility-specific protection, control, and metering experience. Experience executing EPC projects is considered an asset.
- Electrical Engineering Degree from a recognized university along with the ability to register as a Professional Engineer in Canada and/or the United States.
- 3-4 years of experience in performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility transmission systems is considered an asset.
- Experience of relay setting software such as ASPEN, CAPE, EasyPower, SKM Power Tools as well as SEL and GE relay programming software.
- Experience with outage planning, construction sequencing and commissioning is considered an asset.
- Familiarity with utility protection and control maintenance and operational practices is considered an asset.
- Strong English written and verbal communication skills.
- Authorization to lawfully work in Canada without sponsorship from Wood now or in the future is required