Are you looking for a role where you can apply your electrical engineering expertise to support complex restoration and infrastructure projects? Can you see yourself developing creative electrical designs, supporting field activities, and collaborating with customers and regulators to ensure safe, high-quality project delivery? If you can, as an Electrical Engineer with the WL Engineering Branch, you will help deliver critical restoration initiatives by providing electrical design and project engineering support for new and existing systems. If you answered yes, this may be the job for you

What you will be doing

- Delivering engineering expertise throughout design, procurement, and construction phases to ensure electrical systems and designs comply with applicable codes, standards, and engineering requirements.
- Applying professional engineering principles and affixing a P.Eng. stamp to assume accountability for engineering designs and decisions.
- Ensuring all assigned work meets or exceeds quality, regulatory, code, and customer requirements.
- Identifying electrical code compliance issues and developing practical, effective solutions.
- Preparing, reviewing, and approving electrical drawings, technical reports, calculations, and specifications.
- Planning electrical design activities, developing cost and schedule estimates, and tracking progress against project deliverables.
- Identifying and mitigating project risks to support on-time and on-budget delivery of design work.
- Negotiating schedule or budget adjustments with clients when risks cannot be reasonably mitigated, providing clear technical justification.
- Establishing requirements and technical expectations for external design activities and resources.




- Developing contract scopes of work for external engineering support and reviewing completed work to ensure compliance with applicable codes, standards, and project requirements.
- Supervising Engineers and Design Representatives as assigned by the Engineering Manager.
- Providing day-to-day direction, coaching, and mentorship to engineering staff, supporting skill development, knowledge transfer, and continuous professional growth.
- Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What We Are Looking For

- Education

- Must have a Bachelor of Engineering degree (BEng) in Electrical Engineering from a recognized Canadian University.

- Experience

- Must be a member or eligible for membership with Engineers Geoscientists of Manitoba (EGM) as a Registered Professional Engineer.
- Must have at least ten (5) years’ experience designing electrical systems, including power transmission, power distribution, and communication systems.
- Must have at least five (5) years’ experience in commissioning of electrical systems.
- Must have at least five (5) years’ experience in project management, including project initiation, planning, cost estimation, and scheduling.
- Experience with Nuclear power generation facilities, and/or laboratories is beneficial.




- Experience with Demolition and Deactivation of commercial power generation or industrial manufacturing and processing facilities is beneficial.

- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

- Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills and be able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Planning and prioritization skills are needed to meet established schedules and deadlines.
- Must be familiar with the requirements of the Canadian Electrical Code and the Manitoba Electrical Code.
- Must have experience with system analysis, including arc flash studies and relay coordination.
- Familiarity with SKM software would be beneficial.

- Security Clearance Eligibility Required

- Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3-5 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and/or the United Kingdom. CNL implements security screening in accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's “Standard on Security Screening” and the “Policy on Government Security.”

Working Conditions

- We have a compressed work week: Four (4) days per week, ten (10) hours per day for a forty (40) hour work week, starting at 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- This position is part of the WTEG unionand is governed by the terms and conditions outlined in their Collective Agreement. As a member of this bargaining unit, you’ll benefit from clear expectations around hours of work, wages, vacation, and other conditions that support a fair and consistent working environment.

Why CNL?

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