Senior Automation Engineer - Substations

Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada; Hybrid

Your Opportunity

Our Burnaby office has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Automation Engineer to join the team. This position offers you the opportunity to work in a project team environment with other engineers and designers involved in the detailed electrical design and project management of high voltage substation and power projects.

The successful candidate will be working in the areas of substations, renewable energy, air & gas insulated substation engineering & equipment between the 5kV to 500kV levels. The candidate should understand substation and power system protection schemes as they relate to the design of protection and control systems.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Automation Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing technical governance across multiple projects and programs 
• Perform quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) reviews of Automation designs and deliverables
• Prepare technical reports that clearly communicate engineering concepts and meet client requirements
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams (e.g., electrical, civil, structural, telecom, P&C, SCADA) to deliver integrated designs
• Lead and mentor Junior and Intermediate engineers
• Provide review and approval of RTU, PLC, HMI, embedded controller, and communications system configurations 
• Provide regular progress updates on assigned deliverables and project milestones
• Support commissioning activities, field engineering, and site troubleshooting
• Interface directly with clients and provide support in coordinating project execution
• Support drafting activities, as required, to complete deliverables
• Development of Project Estimates

About Us

At Stantec, we know the work we do matters. From decarbonizing mines to modernizing electric grids and building the infrastructure that fuels communities, we’re powering the world. Our clients come to us with their biggest, most complex challenges because that’s where we thrive. And we’re looking for problem solvers, high achievers, and visionaries to help us.

Join us for a chance to grow professionally at one of the world’s top design firms while building our clean energy future.

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