Electrical Engineer - Distribution

Lauren Services provides a full suite of project delivery services to the Energy sector. We offer complete EPCM services including Project Management, Feasibility Studies, Full-Service Engineering, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction Management, Commissioning & Start-up and Operations Maintenance Support. At Lauren, we pride ourselves in successfully executing projects that are safe, high quality, cost effective and completed on time. Our team leaders capitalize on their years of experience supported by a solution driven group of professionals. Lauren Services' business model is based on repeat business by developing long term relationships with our clients.

OVERVIEW

Lauren Services is looking for a distribution engineer who will be responsible to provide technical expertise, effective operation and maintenance for the distribution systems and related capital projects. The distribution engineer will be responsible for producing studies and layouts of equipment and electrical systems, which meet the client’s specifications. The candidate shall be familiar with industrial oil and gas facility electrical design including single lines, area classification, power system studies and power design.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

May include but are not limited to:

• Support development and maintenance of distribution design tools
• Assist Transmission & Distribution standards engineers with non-standard approvals.
• Complete engineering analysis and design reviews on assigned capital distribution projects
• Lead or participate in engineering investigations of operational events.
• Support other engineering departments as required including natural gas.
• Provide project engineering oversight, responsible for engineering schedule and quality assurance on assigned capital distribution projects.
• Support the planning and development of capital distribution plans to address growth, maintenance and reliability of the distribution system.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of transmission, distribution and station related standards, design guidelines and criteria.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering plus 10-15 years of progressive engineering experience.
• Preference will be given to those applicants with previous distribution and utility experience.
• Must be a Professional Engineer registered or able to be registered with APEGA/EGBC.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Knowledge of applicable provincial, national, and international codes, regulations, safety and standards
• Knowledge of engineering principles and practices
• Knowledge of distribution engineering and general engineering principles
• Demonstrated ability to conduct research
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Knowledge of software such as MS Office and MS-Project, design software such as PLS-CADD

Note: we are not interviewing EIT or junior engineers for this position. This role can be located in Kelowna or remote.