General Description:

•The E3 – Engineer is a fully qualified and accredited engineering professional who applies theoretical and practical knowledge to provide engineering design, estimating, planning, and quality management services for low to medium complexity projects and/or operations safely, with quality, within budget, and on time.

Experience and Role Accountabilities

•A minimum four (4) years of in a relevant engineering field or equivalent.

•Develop safe engineering solutions by using initiative and judgement to perform activities such as developing designs, analyzing and resolving problems, and interpreting engineering specifications on low to medium complexity assignments for projects and/or operations.

•Assist project or operations management to meet safety, cost, quality, and time objectives by performing activities such as proposing changes in plans and estimated costs, recommending payment for work completed by contractors, preparing progress reports, coordinating work schedules and other similar tasks.

•Participate in BC Hydro’s engineering practice by conducting independent studies and analysis, exercising judgment in selecting and interpreting information, recommending safe engineering designs, and making typical decisions related to standard methods and designs so that BC Hydro’s engineering standards are maintained.
•Perform periodic tasks independently which may include on-site construction quality control and monitoring to ensure design compliance.
•Engage with BC Hydro’s senior engineering team where engineering problems are difficult, complex, or unusual to support BC Hydro’s management of engineering risk.

Important notes:
• Prior to commencement on assignment, the selected candidate must have their own sole practitioner, or the use of their firm’s, Permit to Practice with EGBC.
• BC Registrants provided to BC Hydro through this assignment shall work under BC Hydro’s Professional Practice Management Plan, Quality Management Pillar. The Registrant shall apply their own or their firm’s Permit to Practice Number to work that is Sealed by the Registrant. Retention and preservation of all project documentation produced by the Registrant during their contract with BC Hydro will be retained by BC Hydro to satisfy EGBC Bylaws.

Education and Skills

•University graduate in applied science or engineering
•Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with Engineers & Geoscientists BC or with another jurisdiction and eligible for registration as such with Engineers & Geoscientists BC
•BC Hydro uses a Digital Sign and Seal Technology. You may be required to subscribe to a digital seal technology service offered by Notarius
•Familiarity with CAD systems and drawing standards
Ability to use standard industry design/analysis software
• Intermediate MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Intermediate English skills for professional environment, written and spoken

The focus of this role is on the asset management of civil/structural assets for BC Hydro's overhead transmission line system. Types of assets include lattice transmission towers, steel poles, and foundations.

Major responsibilities and duties:

- Collaborates with engineers and technologists from Powertech Labs and BC Hydro's Transmission Lines Engineering teams to establish the requirements for projects and programs involving corrosion inspections, corrosion mitigation (e.g. tower coating, cathodic protection, concrete encasement of steel foundations, etc.), anchor rod replacement, fall protection, and seismic resilience.
- Develops maintenance and sustainment strategies to optimize asset performance and life cycle cost of civil/structural overhead lines assets across the province while balancing business requirements.
- Prioritizes maintenance/sustainment work, develops annual maintenance/sustainment work plans and budgets consistent with strategies, standards, and investment plans; balances and determines priorities, collaborates with other Integrated Planning groups on alternatives and impacts, and assigns the work program to Program and Contract Management or Capital Infrastructure Project Delivery for execution.
- Develops a long term (2 to 10 years) Asset Maintain/Sustain Investment Plan and rolling budget based on asset maintenance and sustainment strategies, current asset condition and health, and changes in performance expectations from stakeholders, regulators, and the asset owner.
- Develops maintenance standards, asset strategies, and asset policies to ensure civil/structural overhead transmission assets are safe and reliable and minimize lifecycle cost and environmental impact.
- Leads the technical, financial, and root cause analysis of asset performance and condition, and determines investment requirements based on risk, cost, and customer needs.
- Monitors execution of the work program in accordance with performance standards, resolves major or escalated operating or maintenance related problems and concerns, and provides direction for contingency planning, emergency spare equipment, and material management.
- Works closely with other Integrated Planning groups regarding impacts of maintenance and sustainment on system performance and future plans for improvements to the system; proposes alternatives for increasing/improving system capacity and balancing costs and benefits.
- Confers with and provides consultative advice and input to operational, design, delivery, and other groups to ensure maintenance and sustaining capital issues are represented and considered; participates with customers and internal and external stakeholders on planning and major projects, initiatives, and studies.