About Trail Operations Teck's Trail Operations, located in the community of Trail in British Columbia, is one of the world's largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes. Located in the beautiful West Kootenay region of southeastern, British Columbia, Trail offers outdoor adventure at your fingertips.

Location Trail, BC, Canada

Employment Type Regular Full Time

Workplace Type On-site

Role Overview Teck is looking for an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to join our team at our Trail Operations, one of the world's largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes. Reporting to the Superintendent, Electrical Engineering, the Senior Electrical Engineer is accountable for improving and sustaining the maintenance and reliability of Trail Operations' electrical infrastructure by investigating reliability problems, developing and implementing maintenance strategies, and providing technical support.

This role is based in the welcoming community of Trail, situated in the beautiful West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Here you will find outdoor adventure at your fingertips! Whether it's biking and skiing, or the laid-back atmosphere of fishing and hiking, there is something for everyone.

This position offers relocation assistance and a compressed workweek with alternating Fridays off. Come experience what work life balance is all about!

Key Responsibilities Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures

Provide front-line and deep technical support to business area operations and maintenance on electrical bad actors, chronic failures, and emergent issues.

Support immediate failures of key electrical equipment with troubleshooting and develop repair plans to reduce plant downtime

Facilitate root cause analysis and defect elimination; recommend corrective actions (settings updates, maintenance tactics, operating envelopes, design changes).

Maintain the 600V to 63kV Electrical System and associated equipment within an engineering and trades team. This includes associated equipment with 24V control





Maintain the site electrical design criteria, installation standards, and maintenance standards, ensuring alignment with applicable codes, regulations, corporate policies, insurance requirements, manufacturer's recommendations, and industry standards.

Develop long-range (5-year and 20-year) electrical asset management plans across all business units and champion capital allocations for electrical assets considering the overall business needs.

Use a combination of preventative maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance (PdM) and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for development of asset maintenance strategies

Manages backlog of PM update requests and delegate minor PM revisions

Define and track work quality requirements using Trail Operations' quality management process

Manage design changes to equipment stemming from approved actions identified through failure investigations or assessments of chronic equipment

Conduct equipment condition assessments and create corrective actions for repair

Execute the equipment Management of Change (MOC) process for modifications to equipment design and conduct hazard risk assessments (HRAs) or process hazards assessments (PHAs) as part of the MOC Process

Serve as the owner’s representative to business area projects for design reviews of all new electrical installations and major modifications: review basis-of-design, single-line diagrams, protection schemes, equipment ratings, interlocks, and constructability. Build commissioning plan as part of project or emergency repair scoping

Support the procurement process for non-standard or specialty parts

Provide electrical engineering guidance to recent employees, co-op students, EITs, and plant personnel





Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline

Minimum 10 years of work experience in mining, smelting, refining, or similar heavy industrial facilities in an electrical engineering capacity.

Applicants must be eligible for registration or registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. (EGBC) as this will be a condition of employment. Teck will support eligible employees with their EGBC registration

Strong communication skills and effective interpersonal and problem-solving abilities

Field commissioning experience an asset

Knowledge of reliability principles, methodologies and technology

Technical knowledge in motor protection relays, feeder protection relays, VFDs, transformer protection

Knowledge of crane controls required would be an asset

Strong computer skills including MS Office (Advanced Excel)

Supervisory and mentoring experience an asset

Experience with predictive maintenance and CMMS systems technologies an asset

Benefits Annual Performance Bonus

Profit Share Plan

Health Spending Account

Personal Spending Account

Extended Health Care

Dental and Vision Care

Employer Paid Pension Plan

Life Insurance and Disability Coverage

Paid Sick Leave, Vacation and Holidays

Virtual Telemedicine and additional support for overall well-being

Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)

Pay Range: CAD $122,000 - $150,000 per year The actual amount offered is determined based on the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and competencies and considers internal equity.

Why Teck At Teck, your work matters—to the world, to our communities and to your future. As a leading Canadian resource company, we focus on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love. We do this guided by our values that, together, form The Teck Way.

At Teck, you'll find purpose-driven work, a culture of respect and inclusion, and the opportunity to grow your career while helping build a better world.

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