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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.
Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.
We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we build an even cleaner B.C.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Duties:
* Performs extension, improvement, alteration, removal, and end of life design work for BC Hydro and customer driven Distribution projects and programs related to:
a) Single and three phase overhead primary equipment and asset work (excluding automated equipment).
b) Single phase civil and underground primary work.
c) Single phase overhead, civil, and underground secondary and service work up to 600A (including low profile transformers (LPTs)).
d) Three phase overhead, civil, and underground secondary and service work up to 400A at 347/600V and 800A at 120/208V (excluding installation or replacement of pad mounted transformers (PMTs)).
* Conducts field studies for a variety of distribution projects.
* Liaises with internal and external customers and stakeholders requiring or impacted by design services.
* May support and act as a subject matter expert related to the Design Representative role and area of expertise.
* Responsible for the portfolio management and coordination of assigned design projects.
* Ensures designs meet appropriate regulatory and stakeholder requirements and construction standards. Engages with appropriate resources (such as Engineers or construction crews) to validate design constructability and the impact on future operation and maintenance, as required. Addresses and documents known safety risks prior to construction.
* Performs some or all the duties of the Distribution Design Assistant job.
* Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties that do not affect the rating of the job.
Qualifications:
* High school Diploma with Math 12, English 12 and Physics 11 (or equivalents); plus, completion of Electrical Utility Fundamentals (or equivalent); and a BC Electrical Code course (or equivalent); OR
* Degree, Diploma, or Certificate in Electrical Engineering Technology (or an equivalent electrical discipline) from a Canadian Educational Institute; OR
* International Electrical or Canadian Non-Electrical Degree, Diploma or Certificate with an electrical Technician accreditation through a provincial regulatory or governing body such as Certified Technician (CTech) through ASTTBC.
* Two (2) years of demonstrated electrical utility design experience at, or equivalent to, a fully qualified BC Hydro Distribution Design Rep.
* Completion of BC Hydro’s Distribution Design Rep level training program.
* Must hold a valid class five (5) driver's licence.
Applicants who meet all the experience, training, and education requirements for the Distribution Design Rep role will be given priority.
If there are no fully qualified applicants, candidates who meet all the educational requirements may be considered as Distribution Design Rep Trainees.
If there are no applicants that meet all the educational requirements, applicants without Electrical Utility Fundamentals course (or equivalent) and/or BC Electrical Code course (or equivalent), may then be considered, however these missing course(s) must be completed within one (1) year of being hired into the role and prior to graduation from the Distribution Design Rep level training program.
Distribution Design Rep Trainee applicants with demonstrated electrical utility design experience may be given partial credit towards the two (2) year BC Hydro Distribution Design Rep level training program.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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