Electrical Planner Jobs

Company Description

Chantier Davie Canada Inc. is Canada’s largest shipbuilding and repair yard. Based on values such as success, dynamic, accountability and relationship.

You have a taste for adventure and want to start an exceptional career in an environment where you will have the opportunity to grow.

Come support the nation with us. We build and repair Canadian ships for the Department of National Defence, Transport Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard.

As an Electrical Planner, you will be responsible to ensure that the job cards/ work packs encompass all required pieces of information in order for production to execute the scope of work without interruption. Precisely, you will have to:

• Reviews the prints, drawings, and work scope and determines the work to be accomplished, relying on previous experience/ training; following accepted trade practices, pertinent specifications, sketches, drawings, prints; and considering time/cost restraints, tooling and material availability.
• Assign job card budgets within overall budgets;
• Visits the jobsite while work is in progress and upon completion to determine whether the customer specifications (scope, materials, equipment, tooling, and skills) are adequately communicated to the production craftspeople.
• Must have an ability to gain intermediate working knowledge of the techniques and procedures of machinery, sheet metal work, welding, pipe fitting, electrical work, surface coating and painting, and a basic knowledge of supply and procurement.
• Provide reports on the status and progress of the work;
• Capture job feedback (actual time and material usage, and production comments) in order to improve the job card development for future similar work scopes.
• Consults with the supervisor on problems relating to craftsmanship, material, equipment, or procedures.
• Reviews expended manhours and material usage with estimated cost to determine if deviations are justified. Attends meetings and conferences as required.
• Develops detailed process plans to include reviewing and applying manhour estimates, identifying special tooling, and material.
• Organize information and material requirements in a job card/ work pack in accordance with the standard CDCI planning process, so that they are quickly and easily understood by the production craftspeople;
• Revises plans and estimates if necessary as work progresses. Initiates procurement of supplies and material required for individual jobs and ensures the availability of essential equipment to complete the job.
• Must have an ability to gain intermediate working knowledge of high-temperature water and high-pressure piping systems and equipment such as steam heating, steam generation, hydraulic systems, vacuum systems, flash and expansion tanks, circulating pumps, and radiators; to include that accomplished by contracted work scopes.

Qualifications

• Successfully complete the investigation and security clearance process required under the Federal Government’s Contract Security Program.
• Ability to communicate with different departments in a multidisciplinary environment;
• Ability to work in a team;
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in a similar role in shipbuilding, ship repair, or construction projects, OR a University or college diploma in a relevant discipline and 2 years of related experience;
• Rigour and strong organizational skills;
• Awareness of an ERM, scheduling and or planning software (e.g. AVEVA, Primavera);
• Advanced knowledge of typical computer software programs i.e. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint;