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Senior Electrical Engineer

Come join us in reshaping the future with AtkinsRéalis. AtkinsRéalis is dedicated in engineering a better future for our planet and its people.

The Buildings and Facilities group in Vancouver provide mechanical and electrical design for all types of buildings in the Commercial, Healthcare, Light Industrial, Municipal, Institutional, Recreational, and Multi-residential market. Our clients and projects and varied and diverse. The office is a high energy workspace where we work closely as a team to meet the requirements and deadlines of our clients.

We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our team in Vancouver, BC. with minimum 15 years' experience in Electrical design for many types of buildings.

This role will be based in Vancouver, BC.

Your role within the team:

• Provide electrical systems design leadership and project management for design mandates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Review, understand and clearly communicate all relevant client requirements, provide design options and recommendations to meet those requirements.
• Develop strategies to Identify and manage project risks and potential liabilities.
• Lead and participate in site surveys of existing electrical building systems.
• Lead and actively participate in, and document, meetings with clients, contractors, and other consultants.
• Review tender submissions and quotations from contractors.
• Work with contractors to quickly resolve onsite issues and ensure contractor's conformance to design requirements.
• Lead the preparation of electrical specifications.
• Prepare design briefs, schematics, project documents and perform all required engineering calculations.
• Lead production all required engineering documents in schematic design, design development and working drawings.
• Ensure design products meet required quality standards.
• Ensure timely review of shop drawings and RFI responses.
• Support and work in collaboration with other team members to complete projects on time and on budget.
• Supervise, mentor and train junior designers and CAD operators.

Communication Tasks –

• Deal with difficult technical and/or contractual issues and resolve through verbal and written communication.
• Provide advice to other Designers and Engineers regarding complex design and installation details.
• Identify project risks and potential liabilities and develop strategies to minimize them.
• Assign each designer's responsibilities within a large project, and co-ordinate design effort.
• Coordinate workload for staff working on all projects.
• Create a positive open environment through open communication with team and other colleagues.
• Embrace behaviour-based safety and ensuring all health and safety protocols are always followed.
• Ensure all ethics and compliance protocols are followed and maintained.

Why choose AtkinsRéalis as an employer?

Because we offer:

• The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
• An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
• A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
• Expected compensation for this role is between Pay Range $110,000 to $140,000 annually. Base salaries are determined according to several parameters like skills, experience, and potential impact on the role. Internal and external competitiveness are also taken into account in our offers.
• A work environment focused on health and safety.

The ideal candidate:

• University Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Registered as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in British Columbia (Registered in other provinces is an asset).
• Minimum of 15 years' experience working with relevant codes including, BCBC, NBC, CEC, ASHRAE 90.1, relevant CSA Standards (C282, Z32, Z317.5, B44, etc.), ULC-S524 and S537.
• Minimum 10 years' experience working on complex electrical building systems and designing building services in a variety of building types, especially light industrial, healthcare, transportation facilities, and municipal buildings.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, and motivating a team of engineers and designers.
• Excellent communication, inter-personal skills and able to work in a fast-paced environment. working with employees, consultants, internal and external individuals, and teams.
• Demonstrated experience to manage multiple projects, and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining long term relationships with clients (i.e., understanding client objectives, anticipating, and meeting client needs, growing business).
• Demonstrated ability to resolve difficult technical problems during the full project lifecycle.
• Track record of lead design responsibility for Power Supply and Distribution, Lighting, Fire Alarm, Communications and Security systems for complex buildings.
• Computer Skills - MS Office Suite, AutoCAD. (REVIT and Micro-station experience is an asset).
• Must have MS Excel skill to work with formulated worksheets.
• Proficiency with computers and standard word and data processing applications.

Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.