Intermediate Electrical Technologist

As an Intermediate Electrical Technologist in Burnside’s growing Electrical practice, you’ll bring your hands-on electrical drafting and design experience to projects ranging from signalized intersections and roadway corridors to maintenance facilities and terminals. You’ll help deliver work across transportation, municipal infrastructure, site development, commercial, industrial, and institutional projects.

You’ll work closely with Electrical Engineers and multidisciplinary teams across multiple offices, turning engineering concepts into coordinated, high-quality drawing packages. This is a hands-on role where you’ll stay involved in CAD production, support design and construction activities, and help junior colleagues develop their skills.

What you'll be doing:

• Use AutoCAD and Micro Station to draft and model electrical layouts. You’ll also have opportunities to use Revit. Drawing deliverables include single-line diagrams, wiring schematics, signal phasing and conduit diagrams, panel schedules, cable routing, installation details, and bills of materials.
• Prepare traffic signal and intersection modification drawings, street lighting plans, and photometric analyses. Support lighting design for roadways, pathways, transit yards, parking facilities, sports fields, parks, commercial sites, and industrial interior and exterior spaces.
• Assist with electrical servicing, low-voltage power distribution, and utility coordination for traffic signal controllers, lighting networks, transportation corridors, and commercial and industrial facilities. Coordinate with Local Distribution Companies (LDCs), including Hydro One, Elexicon, Alectra, Toronto Hydro, and other regional utilities.
• Prepare permit-ready, tender-ready, and construction-ready drawing packages from engineering sketches, markups, redlines, and design calculations. Prepare supporting schedules, specifications, cost estimates, and tender documents. Assist engineers with technical reports, design briefs, permit applications, and utility connection submissions.
• Support Engineers in coordinating drawing production and cross-office workflows. Help resolve conflicts with civil, roadway, architectural, structural, mechanical, and utility designs, and participate in quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) reviews.
• Review designs against applicable provincial and municipal standards, building codes, client and agency requirements, and utility connection criteria. Apply relevant guidance, including IES RP-8, OTM Book 12, the Ontario Building Code (OBC), the Ontario Electrical Safety Code (OESC), NFPA guidelines, and IEEE standards.
• Help select and detail equipment such as traffic signal controllers, service panels, luminaires, switch gear, motor control centres, transformers, standby generators, and lighting controls. Review manufacturer information to confirm dimensions, footings, equipment clearances, and installation feasibility.
• Take part in site visits, field investigations, condition assessments, site audits, and preliminary engineering evaluations. Coordinate with contractors, clients, agencies, and municipalities, and support construction administration and commissioning.
• Review contractor Requests for Information (RFIs), shop drawings, and equipment submittals, and draft responses. Conduct periodic site reviews to check construction progress, quality, and compliance with drawings, specifications, and applicable codes.
• Draft electrical site instructions, contemplated change notices (CCNs), and change orders. Review pricing, quotations, and cost breakdowns for proposed changes, and prepare and issue as-built and record drawing revisions from contractor markups and field review records.
• Mentor and support junior technologists, technicians,…