Senior​/Intermediate Electrical Designer

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Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

What Vista Does

Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years, our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects, from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.

The benefits of our approach apply to new asset developments and brownfield optimization projects across several industrial markets. This includes biofuels and produced water treatment to natural gas and petrochemical processing. We are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.

The Senior Electrical Designer prepares complicated drawings and charts. The Senior Electrical Designer also independently completes thedesign of different aspects of energy industry related projects from inception to completion.

Duties include:

• Preparing layouts, calculations and designs related to the most complicated elements of projects
• Designing and detailing complicated new components from previous designsbased on engineering instructions, government and regulatory codes andclient standards
• Producing drawings in a complicated field with minimum technical guidance
• Coordinating complicated work between field and office
• Assisting site during construction
• Assisting with engineering feasibility and cost studies
• Reporting progress of work assignments to immediate supervisor
• Checking the work and assisting in the training of less experienced drafting and design personnel
• Ensuring all drawings and materials are in accordance with Vista and client specifications and standards
• Making general recommendations on the utilization of new drafting/design techniques, normally within an area of specialization
• Analyzing design elements for potential trends, technical feasibility, client or contractual requirements including identification of deviations in job scopeand estimation of changes
• Supporting the preparation of design estimates, schedules and staffingrequirements
• Extensive experience with generating 3D modelsbased on engineers’ design sketches for cabletrays, junction boxes & local control panels, e-house equipment, EHT, etc. Creating 2
  
  Ddrawings from reference of the 3D models
• Experience with production of energy industryfacility related drawing packages including SLDs,
  area classification drawings, electrical layouts, JBwiring diagrams, motor/VFD schematics, cable schedules, EHT isometrics, etc
• Extensive experience with demand loadcalculations, voltage drop calculations, cable tray
  fill calculations, etc. and the ability to thoroughlycheck others’ calculations
• Experience with the requisition of electricalequipment such as switchgears, MCC, UPS,
  EHT panels, e-houses, etc. is considered anasset
• Ability to interpret information from vendorelectrical drawings, P&IDs, LDTs, isometrics etc.and visualize client requirements
• Performing other duties as requested

• Eight years of progressive…