Lead​/Senior CSA Designer

What Vista Does Vista Projects is an integrated engineering firm who has been solving complex challenges in the energy industry since 1985.

We are innovators at our core.

We continually find better, smarter ways to design and deliver oil and gas projects, and we are proud to be contributing on some of the most exciting low-carbon and synthetic fuel developments in the North America.

For our people, that means meaningful, varied work and a real chance to shape how modern engineering gets done.

We are innovators in the energy industry.

We actively find ways to improve how oil and gas projects are designed and delivered, and we are contributing to some remarkable low-carbon and synthetic fuel developments; including electro sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) and gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects.

We are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.

Why We Do It The world needs energy, and better engineering makes the projects that deliver it safer, more efficient and more sustainable.

Our multi-discipline teams have designed some of the most challenging and successful projects in the North American energy sector, from early-stage studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.

We take pride in doing that work well, and just as much pride in continuously improving how we do it.

What You Would Do in This Role The Department Design Lead is responsible for the resource assignment of designers in CSA.

This position requires communication and coordination between the discipline engineering leads as to the designer staffing requirements.

The Department Discipline Lead contributes to their department’s performance evaluations and training plans.

The department will develop discipline-specific work processes, as necessary to support the projects/programs.

Duties include:

Planning, allocating and reviewing work programs.

This includes updating Forecast Web on a weekly basis and ensuring it is suitably completed to align with the demand of the Project/Program Manager.

The forecast should be updated to current project plans and changes to work plans/resourcing needs are communicated through change management to project stakeholders.

Preparing weekly progress reports for each project including work completed, work planned for the following week and discipline needs Updating project schedule on a weekly basis including marking tasks which are completed, in progress, and any potential delays.

In addition, ensure tasks are listed correctly in schedule.

Project schedule along with tasks and deliverables are reviewed and maintained in conjunction with Project Management.

Establishing scopes of work, man-hour estimates, schedules and priorities for projects and proposals Scheduling and expediting department work Providing leadership and mentorship to project/program discipline design team Providing technical and quality guidance to department staff Ensuring the design and drafting team are completing high quality work within the required time and budget constraints Attending status meetings with clients, project management and suppliers Coordinating interfaces with other disciplines Maintaining current knowledge of industry and regulatory standards Assigning and reviewing work of discipline design and drafting staff Ensuring adherence to Vista Quality Management System (QMS) Preparing layouts, calculations and designs related to the most complicated elements of projects Ensuring all drawings and materials are in accordance with Vista and client specifications and standards Approving completed drawings Supporting development, implementation and maintenance of discipline design standards, checklists and procedures 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 Generating 3D modeling specs and standard details Reviewing 3D models and 2D drawings based on engineers’ design sketches for steel structures, concrete structures and buildings Reviewing 3D models and 2D drawings based on engineers’ design sketches for civil works…