Electrical Engineer, Level 3 or 4 Job at Williams Engineering Canada Inc
At Williams Engineering Canada, we brighten the lives of people in our community.
Knowing what we do reaches beyond a single project, we believe it's not only our responsibility but our core purpose to engineer cities that are safe, inclusive, and resilient.
We believe in the value of shared knowledge to better consult, create, and encourage diverse perspectives, to provide innovative solutions across the busiest cities and the most remote regions of Western and Northern Canada. We recognize that our people do much more than engineer solutions and solve our clients’ greatest challenges; they have the opportunity to impact the communities in which they live, work, and build relationships in. In order to make a positive impact on our communities, we must start by positively impacting our own people. To us, this means providing fair compensation, training, advancement opportunities, and an open-door team environment. This also means maintaining a healthy work-life balance, which is why we offer a flexible work environment to support the unique and busy lives that our people lead.
There are many reasons why remote working helps people have more control over their work and balance their lives, that's why at Williams Engineering, we believe a remote work strategy makes business sense and helps us achieve our purpose of brightening the lives of people in our communities by reducing our carbon footprint. We operate on a fully remote option for any teammate who wants to when deemed appropriate by their manager.
If you join us, you have an opportunity to be a part of the impact that we create. We are looking for teammates who want to have an impact on the community though their work and are interested in taking on initiative to live out your Purpose though your work every day.
Location: Yellowknife (with the opportunity to work remotely from home)
Position Purpose: Working closely with the Project Manager, acting as Technical Lead on various projects, and maintaining the technical competence and production requirements of the projects. Provides exceptional customer service and coordination assistance with internal and external project partners (consultants, contractors, etc.).
Specific Responsibilities Include:
- Work with the Team lead/ Project Manager/ Engineering Manager in providing our clients with finished projects in a timely manner.
- Communicate effectively with the Project Manager; this includes collecting and coordinating useful information.
- Act as a mentor/coach to junior staff.
- Provide guidance and leadership to junior staff, this includes reviewing reports and ensuring technical standards are met.
- Share expertise with other offices.
- May act as client contact.
- Contribute to maintaining and improving quality control.
- Calculate cost opinions, change orders and earned value.
- Develop engineering cost proposals.
- Identify risks associated with a project at the proposal stage; satisfy client and our requirements with regard to risk management.
- Accurately apply codes and regulations.
- Coordinate with all disciplines, extract and relay relevant information for complex projects.
- Write reports not requiring significant editing.
- Share expertise with other offices.
- Solve interdisciplinary design conflicts.
- Lead, review and/or provide input for proposals.
- Review and mark up complex drawings.
- Write and present technical papers.
- Operate as a specialist consultant by creating unique designs and concepts, by developing an in-depth understanding of other on site disciplines and by ensuring WEC’s technical capability is moved throughout WEC.
- Operate independently on routine projects and oversee work plans and procedures on routine projects.
- Coordinate with all disciplines, extract and relay relevant information for complex projects.
- With proven competency, prepare engineering design, specification and/or recommendations for a variety of the following:
- Control systems
- Grounding
- Hazardous area classification
- Heat tracing systems
- High and medium low voltage power systems
- Lighting systems
- Low tension building systems engineering
- Low voltage power
- Life safety systems
- Power systems analysis
- Commissioning of electrical systems
- Energy analysis and management
- Modify established standards, devise new approaches, apply existing criteria in new manners, and draw conclusions for comparative situations.
- Actively perpetuate and embody WEC culture and values.
- Stamp own project design and reports and that of engineers in training for whom you are providing peer review as appropriate.
- Employees are required to adhere to the company and client safety policies and practices in effect at any given time
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
- P.Eng. Status with appropriate provincial association
- 4 – 6 years of experience minimum
Skills & Capabilities:
- Excellent interpersonal skills; a person who listens well, respects diversity of opinions and has an open, clear and succinct communication style.
- Effective organizational and time management skills in handling multiple projects, performing a variety of tasks, and meeting required deadlines.
- Ability to represent the company to the staff, clients and community by ensuring the best image is presented.
- Application knowledge of programs (including Vision, MS Office, AutoCAD, Revit MEP, AGI 32 Software)
- Ability to accurately apply codes and regulations.
- Ability to coordinate with all disciplines, extract and relay relevant information for complex projects.
- Ability to write reports not requiring significant editing.
- Ability to identify risks – to satisfy client requirements
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