Principal Engineer – Substation

🕒 September 23

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $170k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏗️ Construction

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🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Seed Round on 2022-03

Construction • Logistics • Manufacturing

Qualus is a leading pure-play power services firm and innovator at the forefront of the energy transition and transformation, with differentiated capabilities across grid modernization, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The firm partners with utilities, commercial, industrial, data center, and government clients, and renewable and energy storage developers, offering comprehensive solutions through boutique and integrated advisory, planning, engineering, digital solutions, program management, and specialized field services. Qualus also provides software and technology enabled services and develops breakthrough solutions for critical power industry challenges such as distributed and variable resource integration, emergency management, and secure data exchange.

📋 Description

• Serve as senior technical authority for electrical substation projects ranging from 12 kV to 735 kV • Serve as Professional-of-Record, ensuring technical accuracy, quality, and compliance of design deliverables • Provide technical leadership for substation design activities, including layouts, station service systems, grounding systems, and equipment selection • Lead development, review, and approval of one-line and phasing diagrams, layouts, grounding designs, conduit and cable routing designs • Oversee complex engineering studies, including grounding, lightning protection, insulation coordination, bus design, and equipment integration • Develop and approve design criteria, specifications, reports, studies, and construction packages • Act as senior technical interface with clients, utilities, and stakeholders • Lead technical workshops, client meetings, design reviews, constructability reviews, and risk assessments • Mentor engineers, EITs, designers, and project teams • Lead independent technical and quality reviews • Review and approve vendor drawings and technical submissions • Provide engineering support during construction, including field reviews, RFIs, troubleshooting, and issue resolution • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated designs • Support engineering standards, procedures, best practices, safety-by-design, quality assurance, and continuous improvement • Ensure projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements • Support proposals, technical pursuits, client relationship management, estimates, and RFQ responses

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from a recognized university • Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Canada, with registration in British Columbia or ability to obtain • 20+ years of experience in transmission and distribution engineering, with significant experience in substation design • Experience serving as a technical authority, senior engineering lead, or Professional-of-Record on complex substation projects • Strong expertise in substation design, including layouts, grounding systems, bus design, insulation coordination, station service systems, and major equipment integration • In-depth knowledge of Canadian Electrical Code (CSA C22.1), IEEE, and IEC standards • Understanding of OH&S requirements • Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship across multiple projects and teams • Ability to manage complex technical challenges and make sound engineering decisions • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with exceptional engineering judgment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • Life Insurance • Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage • Retirement Savings Plans, including employer matching where applicable • Flexible Spending and/or Health Spending Accounts • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) • Parental Leave • Paid Time Off • Company Holidays

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