Protection & Controls Engineer Jobs

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood currently has exciting opportunities for a Protection & Controls Engineer. This position can be located in any of the following offices - Vancouver, BC or Calgary, AB. If you have a successful track record and thrive on challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting construction and commissioning activities
• Enhancing and maintaining relationships with internal groups as well as external contractors and clients
• On assigned projects, serving as Technical Lead and:
• Reviewing or preparing project conceptual, feasibility and definition phase scopes and estimates
• Participating in client technical, Safety by Design and constructability review meetings
• Performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility transmission systems
• Reviewing or preparing engineering drawings/documents, specifications, construction and outage staging plans, and inspection and testing plans/procedures
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Developing protection planning and application documents, one-lines, schematics, panel layouts and wiring diagrams for power system protective relaying and metering systems
• Supporting Business Development team in preparing proposals and estimates
• Reviewing new engineering standards, design practices, guides, etc. from clients and sharing with the P&C team
• Performing factory inspections
• Liaising with clients at the discipline level on technical matters
• Providing technical leadership and support to a team of engineers and designers to develop protection, control, and metering system design for electrical substations ranging from 12 kV to 500 kV from conceptual stage through construction and commissioning

Skills / Qualifications

• Familiarity with utility protection and control maintenance and operational practices is considered an asset
• Electrical Engineering Degree from a recognized university along with the ability to register as a Professional Engineer in Canada and/or the United States
• 3-4 years of experience in performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility transmission systems is considered an asset
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Proven working experience of relay setting software such as ASPEN, CAPE, EasyPower, SKM Power Tools as well as SEL and GE relay programming software
• Clean driving record/abstract
• Minimum 5 years of utility-specific protection, control, SCADA and metering experience. Experience executing EPCM projects is considered an asset
• Proven field experience with outage planning, construction sequencing and commissioning is considered an asset

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement (EEO)

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.