09 Nov
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Kinectrics
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Calgary
09 Nov
Kinectrics
Calgary
Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.
Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That’s why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren’t looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.
Visit our website to learn more: www.kinectrics.com
The Opportunity
Position: Field Service Testing Engineer HVST
Employment Type: Temporary up to 12 months
Employment Level: Intermediate
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Department: High Voltage and Safety Testing
Reports to: Service Line Lead, MV Cables
Hours per week: 40
What We Offer
At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver’s seat of your own career,
setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your qualified growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.
- Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
- Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
- Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
- Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
- Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses),
comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for retirement savings plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.
Position Overview:
- Lead or support project execution for advanced electrical testing / condition assessment primarily related to high-criticality low voltage (LV) and medium voltage (MV) electrical assets in generation plants, utility distribution, and industrial environments. The primary focus of this role will be activities related to field-based commissioning, maintenance, post-repair, or investigative / troubleshooting testing of LV and MV power cables, but eventually other electrical assets including MV Switchgear and HV/EHV Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) may be included.
- Perform, manage / supervise, analyzing data from, and prepare technical reports related to advanced electrical (and occasionally material-based) non-destructive field-based testing of LV and MV power cables using one more of the following techniques:
- Withstand testing
- Using Power Frequency (50/60Hz), Near Power Frequency (20 – 300Hz) or Very Low Frequency (0.1Hz) voltages.
- Diagnostic Partial Discharge (PD) testing
- Using conventional IEC 60270 and non-conventional, broadband methods based on Power Frequency (50/60Hz), Near Power Frequency (20 – 300Hz) or Very Low Frequency (0.1Hz) voltages.
- Dielectric Loss / VLF (0.1Hz) Tangent Delta
- Dielectric Spectroscopy (Frequency Domain or Time Domain)
- Time & Frequency Domain Reflectometry (TDR, FDR, including LIRATM)
- AC and DC Metallic Resistance Measurements
- Polarization / Depolarization Current (PDC) an
📌 Field Service Engineer- Calgary, AB
🏢 Kinectrics
📍 Calgary