Description:
Raise is currently hiring a Site Engineer - Commissioning Coordination on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our Client, is one of the largest electrical energy suppliers in Canada
Note: The primary pay rate is based on the rate for an incorporated contractor who owns their own business. However, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in a T4 arrangement, where applicable.
Description
The Site Engineer - Commissioning Coordination in this role will focus on critical Lower Mainland projects. In this pivotal role, you will be at the heart of our construction and commissioning efforts, leveraging your technical expertise to ensure the successful execution of complex electrical utility projects. You will play a key role in developing and coordinating commissioning plans, overseeing testing, and ensuring all necessary resources—including personnel, outages, and documentation—are in place. This position is essential to support the increasing workload in capital projects, emergency replacement and restoration, asset management strategic OMA programs, and Owner's Engineer review work. This role requires experience with the design of electrical utility substations with operating voltages from 12kV to 500kV and demonstrated experience working with utility design solutions a in an electric utility environment
Responsibilities
- Prepare and gather multi-disciplinary commissioning test plans and summary of requirements documentation.
- Develop Commissioning Plans then coordinate testing/commissioning and assure that the outages, people and documentation are in place to execute the test program for Lower Mainland projects.
- Prepare project documentation and deliverables in accordance with project and Engineering Design Practices (i.e. evaluation reports, specifications, proposals, estimates, design basis', calculations, hazard logs, test plans).
- Prepare design work packages including scope, duration, and level of effort estimates.
- Prepare signed/sealed engineering deliverables as a Professional of Record (PoR) in accordance with EGBC and Design Practices.
- Provide technical assistance and construction support in the field, and undertake field reviews as required by EGBC.
- Design for the following Electrical Systems related to Transmission Stations:
- Ground Grid
- Site Layout and equipment clearances
- Control, feeder and compressor buildings
- Electrical equipment supports
- Perform various engineering calculations: short-circuit forces, ampacity, cable design, lightning protection, voltage drop, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- Develop and oversee all technical aspects of field engineering for construction and commissioning of new electrical and P&C equipment. This includes, but is not limited to switchgear, reactive equipment installation including power transformers, electrical equipment protection, unit control and monitoring, communication networks, and instrumentation systems.
- Provide support for Field Testers and Communications, Protection and Control (CPC) field technologists and perform field reviews for P&C and electrical equipment installations and modifications.
- Perform first-level quality assurance to confirm that the execution of work is in accordance with the plans, specifications, drawings, and industry standards – the work adheres to accepted engineering practice.
- Prepare or review/accept inspection test plans for factory acceptance test and site acceptance test
- Ensure that tests and inspections are performed, witnessed, and documented in accordance with approved procedures and contract requirements. You do the field review as POR’s delegate, or you coordinate witness and hold points for critical components and document these activities in field review records.
- Maintain strong relationships and liaise with different discipline design engineering staff, both to conduct field review and to organize timely resolution of technical issues. You sort out non-compliance issues in the field by bringing design and construction people together.
- Organizes the accumulation of assigned discipline technical information (redlined construction drawings, RFIs, non-conformance reports). Then synthesize this into the construction report telling the construction story.
- Ability to find engineering solutions that add value and to reach consensus
- Ability to coordinate multiple projects and to plan and manage project resources
- Coordinate special testing requirements and operating procedures on the integrated system.
Qualifications
- 8 years of experience in a relevant engineering field or equivalent with Knowledge of P&C testing and commissioning best practices
- Previous experience working in a field environment, and experience in fault analysis and investigations is required.
- Experience in project management including estimating, cost control and project administration
- Experience with the design of electrical utility substations with operating voltages from 12kV to 500kV.
- Demonstrated experience working with utility design solutions in an electric utility environment. Must haves:
- Previous experience with commissioning and testing experience in industrial environment, preferably utility
- Valid class 5 license
- Nice to haves:
- Construction experience
- Field engineering experience
- Additional Education and Skills
- Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering- Electrical Engineering
- Registered P.Eng at the time of submission and will be required to Provide Proof of Permit to Practice, registered with EGBC when hired
- Ability to provide technical directions to junior engineers
- Ability to manage design tasks including scope, schedule and cost
- Ability to find engineering solutions that add value and to reach consensus
- Ability to communicate efficiently including verbal and technical writing in the English language, analytical, interpersonal communications and presentation skills
Additional Information
Every contractor must supply their own Windows 10 or 11 Laptop computer for the duration of the assignment.