Lead Electrical Engineer

The Lead Electrical Engineer provides high-quality electrical engineering services, ensuring technical execution across projects to meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements. This role also involves mentoring and developing the electrical engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver electrical engineering services that meet client and regulatory requirements, on time and within budget.
• Lead the execution of electrical engineering activities on assigned projects or defined project scopes.
• Support project planning and delivery, including participation in meetings, preparation of progress reports, and adherence to quality assurance procedures.
• Ensure project scope is clearly defined and changes are managed according to project change management processes.
• Provide technical input and support during procurement, construction, and commissioning phases.
• Prepare and review electrical equipment and materials requisitions.
• Conduct technical bid evaluations and review vendor documentation and purchase orders.
• Coordinate electrical engineering activities with multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated project delivery.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between client standards and requirements.
• Support the development and technical review of electrical engineering deliverables.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to intermediate and junior engineers and designers.
• Communicate effectively with internal teams, clients, and project stakeholders.
• Identify technical issues and risks, develop solutions, and escalate as needed.

• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
• P.ENG with expertise stamping (EGBC) in Low and Medium Voltage
• 15-30 years of experience with at least 10 years in an EPC environment
• Experience managing 2-10 projects simultaneously, including projects in carbon capture, terminals, mining, potash, midstream, and wellpads
• 2 years managing estimates, reviewing quality, and executing resource management
• Proficiency in creating Single Line Diagrams and schematics

• Demonstrated experience delivering electrical engineering work on industrial projects such as energy, mining, chemicals, power, or infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of engineering systems, workflows, and document management tools like SAP or KMS.
• Familiarity with process safety and operability considerations, including participation in HAZOP/LOPA.
• Understanding of project scope definition, workshare execution, and TA/NTA execution models.
• Strong knowledge of Electrical Engineering deliverables, including single-line diagrams, power distribution studies, and MCC layouts.

The role involves reporting to the Chief Electrical Engineer and working on multi-billion dollar projects over the next 3.5-4 years, including SAGD expansions and carbon capture projects. The work environment requires collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and may involve several ongoing portfolio projects with oil & gas operators and midstream companies.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, BC.

The pay range for this position is $100.00 - $120.00/hr.

This is a hybrid position in Vancouver,BC.

À propos d'Actalent

Actalent est un chef de file mondial des services d’ingénierie et de sciences et des solutions de talents. Nous aidons les entreprises visionnaires à faire progresser leurs initiatives en matière d’ingénierie et de science en leur donnant accès à des experts spécialisés qui favorisent la mise à l’échelle, l’innovation et la mise en marché rapide. Avec un réseau de près de 30 000 consultants et plus de 4 500 clients aux États-Unis, au Canada, en Asie et en Europe, Actalent est au service d’un grand nombre d’entreprises du classement Fortune 500.

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About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

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Salary : $100 - $120