Electrical Engineer

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

Our multidisciplinary team in Northern Canada is looking for an energetic Electrical Engineer to round out our growing practice across Northern Canada. This is a truly unique opportunity to experience Canada’s North, make an impact working on cool projects, and rapidly gain career-boosting experience.

Your role as a contributor on our professional consulting services team is to work independently on projects of varying size and complexity, and as a member of a team or project through all phases of a project lifecycle including many exciting (commercial, institutional, recreational, industrial, and health care) projects. You may contribute to the development of integrated proposals using your knowledge of electrical systems, means and methods, materials, and industry standards while collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables.

This position will ideally be based in one of our northern offices in Yellowknife, Whitehorse, or Iqaluit (relocation support available).

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for small to large projects of various complexity in remote communities across the North.
• Evaluate, select, specify, and engineer all electrical engineered systems or products for a project.
• Engage in the development of a design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
• Utilize BIM technologies in the development of three-dimensional models of building’s electrical systems and provide markups for junior engineers.
• Prepare and revise documentation in various electrical phases including reports, site plans, floor plans, diagrams, and details.
• Lead project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors.
• Participate in client project requirement meetings, value analysis, and basic cost estimating.
• Lead the preparation and coordination of the project specifications with construction documents.
• Conduct field reviews of projects during construction to verify conformance with progress claims and construction documents and provide letters of professional assurance to the applicable authorities having jurisdiction.
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers.
• Assist in the development of new standards and specifications for the electrical group.
• Develop project scope, budgets, and design approach for all sizes of projects.
• Assist with the development of proposals for smaller, less complex projects.
• Oversee and manage multiple projects.
• Collaborate with other electrical engineers and discipline leaders across the region.