Permanent - Full Time Our challenging careers will help you grow, while being surrounded by a team committed to safety, openness, collaboration and accountability.

We offer highly competitive salaries and benefits packages to our employees. This is a safety-sensitive position, the successful candidate(s) will be required to successfully complete mandatory pre-employment drug and alcohol testing to comply with SaskPower’s Fit for Duty Policy.

The Senior Plant

Engineer, is accountable for providing onsite engineering support to our power generation facilities. This role provides strategic engineering leadership for the reliability improvement, maintenance optimization, and performance enhancement of critical rotating equipment. Primary focus on improving the reliability and performance of critical rotating equipment (gas turbines, steam turbines, hydro turbines, generators, pumps, compressors, motors, fans, and gearboxes) through a combination of hands-on troubleshooting techniques, engineering analysis, and reliability strategy development.

The position leads complex technical investigations, develops rotating equipment reliability strategies, influences capital investment decisions, and mentors engineering staff. Working collaboratively with Operations, Maintenance, Asset Management, and Project Delivery teams, the Senior Plant Engineer drives continuous improvement initiatives that improve equipment availability, reduce lifecycle costs, and mitigate operational risk.

Responsibilities align with industry practices for rotating equipment reliability, machinery performance, predictive maintenance, and asset management. Technical lead for rotating equipment reliability,



develop long-term reliability improvement strategies for critical rotating assets. Support in root cause failure analyses and major equipment investigations.

Establish asset health indicators, reliability metrics, and performance benchmarks. Provide engineering leadership during forced outages, major overhauls, and commissioning activities. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers.

Learn and become familiar with assigned technical tasks, methodologies, and practices Provide assistance and prepare project plans and monitor project costs and schedules Perform technical and economic analysis of alternative solutions for project business cases, and make recommendations on courses of action Prepare project plans, monitor costs and schedules, and initiate corrective action as appropriate Provide direction for construction and commissioning projects and initiatives Provide direction to technologists, technicians, consultants, and management staff Provide direction to staff, consultants and other external technical agencies as required Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Qualified Engineering Designation P.Eng. relevant experience that includes: experience in power generation, utilities, heavy industrial, refinery, or petrochemical environments.



Demonstrated experience leading root cause investigations, reliability improvement initiatives, and major equipment projects.

Experience working with additional predictive technologies (motion amplification, oil analysis, ultrasonic) Experience supporting commissioning and performance testing of hydroelectric generation.

A combination of the following engineering tasks: planning, designing, constructing, operating, commissioning of facilities, management, and coordination of technical aspects of contracts and/or technical coordination of highly complex projects Demonstrated competency in engineering, maintain knowledge on industry standards, industry trends and developments, internal processes, and procedures Demonstration of strong relationships with working groups, committees and technical leaders across the organization and external partners Ability to provide competent leadership, including, coaching and development of technical staff including engineers, engineers-in-training and other resources as required Deep and/or broad experience providing guidance and expertise on complex technical issues. Excellent facilitation, project management and decision-making skills Candidates under consideration may be required to participate in an assessment process consisting of any/all of the following: interview, abilities test, case study and/or presentation. At SaskPower, we believe in the importance of fostering and maintaining a workforce that’s representative of the communities we serve.

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📌 Senior Engineer, Plant Engineering Services North (Mechanical) (Saskatoon)
🏢 SaskPower
📍 Saskatoon