Senior Electrical Engineer

Location

Trail, BC, Canada

Regular Full Time

On-site

Teck’s Trail Operations, located in the community of Trail in British Columbia, is one of the world’s largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes. Located in the beautiful West Kootenay region of southeastern, British Columbia, Trail offers outdoor adventure at your fingertips.

Teck is looking for an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to join our team at our Trail Operations, one of the world's largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes. Reporting to the Superintendent, Electrical Engineering, the Senior Electrical Engineer is accountable for improving and sustaining the maintenance and reliability of Trail Operations’ electrical infrastructure by investigating reliability problems, developing and implementing maintenance strategies, and providing technical support.

This role is based in the welcoming community of Trail, situated in the beautiful West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Here you will find outdoor adventure at your fingertips! Whether it’s biking and skiing, or the laid‑back atmosphere of fishing and hiking, there is something for everyone.

This position offers relocation assistance and a compressed workweek with alternating Fridays off. Come experience what work life balance is all about!

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures
• Provide front-line and deep technical support to business area operations and maintenance on electrical bad actors, chronic failures, and emergent issues.
• Support immediate failures of key electrical equipment with troubleshooting and develop repair plans to reduce plant downtime
• Facilitate root cause analysis and defect elimination; recommend corrective actions (settings updates, maintenance tactics, operating envelopes, design changes).
• Maintain the 600V to 63kV Electrical System and associated equipment within an engineering and trades team. This includes associated equipment with 24V control
• Maintain the site electrical design criteria, installation standards, and maintenance standards, ensuring alignment with applicable codes, regulations, corporate policies, insurance requirements, manufacturer’s recommendations, and industry standards.
• Develop long-range (5-year and 20-year) electrical asset management plans across all business units and champion capital allocations for electrical assets considering the overall business needs.
• Use a combination of preventative maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance (PdM) and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for development of asset maintenance strategies
• Manages backlog of PM update requests and delegate minor PM revisions
• Define and track work quality requirements using Trail Operations’ quality management process
• Manage design changes to equipment stemming from approved actions identified through failure investigations or assessments of chronic equipment
• Conduct equipment condition assessments and create corrective actions for repair
• Execute the equipment Management of Change (MOC) process for modifications to equipment design and conduct hazard risk assessments (HRAs) or process hazards assessments (PHAs) as part of the MOC Process
• Serve as the owner’s representative to business area projects for design reviews of all new electrical installations and major modifications: review basis-of-design, single-line diagrams, protection schemes, equipment ratings, interlocks, and constructability. Build commissioning plan as part of project or emergency repair scoping
• Support the procurement process for non-standard or specialty parts
• Provide electrical…