Principal Engineer - P&C

Power your future with Qualus as a Principal Engineer - P&C in our Engineering department!

If you have a successful track record and thrive on challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the opportunity for you.

You will be p roviding technical leadership and support to a team of engineers and designers to develop protection, control, and metering system design for electrical substations ranging from 12 kV to 500 kV from conceptual stage through construction and commissioning.

• Developing protection planning and application documents, one-lines, schematics, panel layouts and wiring diagrams for power system protective relaying and metering systems.
• Performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility transmission systems.
• Reviewing or preparing engineering drawings/documents, specifications, construction and outage staging plans, and inspection and testing plans/procedures.
• Supporting construction and commissioning activities.
• Performing factory inspections.
• Participating in client technical, Safety by Design and constructability review meetings
• Reviewing or preparing project conceptual, feasibility and definition phase scopes and estimates.
• Supporting Business Development team in preparing proposals and estimates.
• Liaising with clients at the discipline level on technical matters.
• Reviewing new engineering standards, design practices, guides, etc. from clients and sharing with the P&C team.
• Enhancing and maintaining relationships with internal groups as well as external contractors and clients.
• Mentoring junior engineers.
• Minimum 15+ years of utility-specific protection, control, and metering design experience.
• Electrical Engineering Degree from a recognized university along with the ability to register as a Professional Engineer in Canada.
• 3-4 years of experience in performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility transmission systems is considered an asset.
• Proven working experience of relay setting software such as ASPEN, CAPE, EasyPower, SKM Power Tools as well as SEL and GE relay programming software.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven field experience with outage planning, construction sequencing and commissioning is considered an asset.