Senior Electrical Designer/Checkers complete advanced, complex, and confidential tasks requiring strong understanding of engineering principles and a high standard of designing and drafting skills. Understanding of control system will be an asset.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Provides design services by gathering information, making studies, computing calculations, and preparing detailed design and deliverables in accordance with project requirements
- Designs components or portions of systems and modifies existing designs to develop or improve products and facilitate manufacturing operations
- Gathers information, makes studies, computes calculations, and prepares original rough layouts and sketches to present design proposals
- Coordinates design criteria with engineering providing layout skid packages including MCC building, cable tray and lighting layouts, and motor schematic drawings
- Investigates pertinent design factors, such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replace ability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements
- Checks completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformity to codes, regulations, and standards, procedures, specifications, critical interface compatibility, productibility aspects, and dimensional accuracy of calculations
- Checks for conformity to design/drafting standards, design specifications, and economy of fabrication and identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies
- Coordinates assigned engineering and design work with other project groups




- Recommends revisions and/or improvements in design layout to responsible engineers or designers
- Participates in project planning and execution, man-hour estimation, and schedule development
- Supervises and provides technical direction to intermediate and junior designers

Prerequisites

Education

- A degree in Electrical Engineering Technology or equivalent education and experience
- ASET membership is an asset

Experience

- 15 years of directly related experience in electrical design of oil and gas processing facilities with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the Canadian industry
- 5 years’ checking experience
- Experience with an EPC work environment
- Fabrication shop designing and checking experience
- Proficiency in latest version of AutoCAD

Other

- 2-3 years’ experience with 3D CADWorx
- 3+ years’ experience with 2D Acad
- Experience with Autodesk programs including AutoCAD and Inventor

- Familiarity with CEC, NEC industry regulations, and standards
- Must be eligible to work in Canada
- As a condition of employment, employees are required upon hire to sign a Drug-Free Workplace Agreement, a Conflict-of-Interest Agreement, and Confidentiality and Invention Agreement

Required Skills and Abilities





- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Strong command of the English language
- Excellent organizational, time management, and planning skills
- Ability to meet objectives while working in a quick-paced environment with changing priorities and strict deadlines
- Adaptable to changing demands
- Ability to take independent action to accomplish objectives
- Excellent reading, research, and analytical skills
- Ability to interpret and utilize complex information
- Detail-oriented
- Ability to monitor the quality of own work
- Advanced mathematics and science skills
- Problem solving
- Ability to resolve technical problems
- Ability to create systems for checking accuracy
- Ability to understand verbal and written instructions

Relationships

Internal

- Must work in a team environment
- Attends meetings and liaises with Electrical Designers and Checkers, multidisciplinary Designers and Drafters, Engineering, and Fabrication
- Confers with shop and departmental personnel while gathering information
- May be required to prepare internal reports

External

- Not applicable

Authority Level

- Technical decisions are routine in nature and will follow precedents and procedures
- Manager is readily available for assistance and guidance
- Work is reviewed for accuracy and conformance with prescribed procedures

Work Environment

Specific Work Conditions

- The work is performed in an office setting and requires the need to deal with a diversity o

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