Distribution Engineer

Job Description
The Distribution Engineer provides technical leadership and engineering oversight for electrical distribution projects, combining hands-on design work with review, authentication, and project delivery responsibilities. This role ensures the technical accuracy, quality, constructability, and timely handover of distribution designs, calculations, estimates, and engineering deliverables. The Distribution Engineer works closely with Distribution Designers and Engineers, resolving design and field-level technical issues, supporting proposals and estimating, and collaborating with customers, utilities, consultants, project management, procurement, and construction teams.

This is a technical position that blends advanced distribution engineering with mentorship, design authentication, estimating, project planning, and direct involvement across the full project lifecycle.

Job Title:

Distribution Engineer
The Distribution Engineer provides technical leadership and engineering oversight for electrical distribution projects, combining hands-on design work with review, authentication, and project delivery responsibilities. This role ensures the technical accuracy, quality, constructability, and timely handover of distribution designs, calculations, estimates, and engineering deliverables. The Distribution Engineer works closely with Distribution Designers and Engineers, resolving design and field-level technical issues, supporting proposals and estimating, and collaborating with customers, utilities, consultants, project management, procurement, and construction teams.

This is a technical position that blends advanced distribution engineering with mentorship, design authentication, estimating, project planning, and direct involvement across the full project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Lead and complete overhead and underground electrical distribution engineering designs, including calculations, drawings, estimates, and related technical deliverables.

Prepare accurate estimates for materials, labour, and equipment using contract bids, quotations, schematic drawings, scopes of work, and specifications.

Analyze customer plans and utility documentation to develop distribution proposals, preliminary designs, estimates, and project schedules.

Perform engineering calculations such as pole-line analysis and pulling-tension calculations to support safe and constructible designs.

Conduct detailed technical reviews to verify design accuracy, quality, constructability, and compliance with applicable codes, standards, and project requirements.

Authenticate personal engineering work packages and, where appropriate, engineering work completed by other team members.

Compile comprehensive project bills of materials based on drawings, specifications, codes, and standards for submission to procurement.

Obtain required permits, agreements, and design approvals, including line assignments, crossing and proximity agreements, environmental approvals, and utility design approvals.

Collaborate with utilities, design consultants, customers, and internal project teams throughout the design and project delivery process.

Facilitate or participate in site meetings, project handoffs, project kick-offs, design reviews, and other project-related meetings to support successful execution.

Monitor project budgets, costs, and scope, and support change-control processes and preparation of change orders when required.

Resolve design-related and field-level technical issues in collaboration with Project Management to protect project schedules and minimize construction delays.

Provide technical expertise, engineering guidance, coaching, training, and mentorship to members of the distribution design group.

Contribute to bid proposals, material take-offs, cost estimates, and project planning for new and existing customer opportunities.

Support continuous improvement initiatives across the Distribution Engineering team, including enhancements to standards, processes, and tools.

Maintain strong working relationships with customers, consultants, utilities, and design approvers to support repeat business and successful project outcomes.

Essential Skills

Bachelors degree in Engineering or a Technical Diploma in Engineering Technology.

Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Licensee Engineering (P.L.Eng.) with APEGA.

8+ years of experience working in an electrical engineering environment.

Extensive experience with overhead and underground electrical…