Senior Automation Engineer – Substations

Power your future with Qualus in our Transmission & Distribution Canada business.

We are seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to join our well-established Protection & Control team of engineers and designers in Canada.

This role offers long-term workload stability, exposure to a diverse portfolio of projects, and the opportunity to provide technical leadership across utility and renewable energy clients.

You will work on projects ranging from 12 kV to 500 kV, supporting designs from early concept through construction and commissioning.

This opportunity is ideal for a senior engineer who enjoys technical ownership, mentoring others, and solving complex technical challenges.

• Provide technical leadership to engineers and designers delivering automation, protection, control, and communications systems for high-voltage substations
• Serve as Technical Lead on assigned projects, guiding automation designs from conceptual planning through construction and commissioning
• Develop and review a utomation philosophies and application documents
• Develop and review RTU, PLC, HMI, SCADA, and communications system configurations and documentation
• Develop and review One-lines, schematics, logic diagrams, panel layouts, and wiring diagrams
• Support automation system integration for utility transmission and distribution substations
• Lead or participate in engineering design reviews, factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), and field inspections
• Support construction, outage planning, commissioning, and troubleshooting activities
• Participate in client technical meetings, Safety by Design reviews, and constructability reviews
• Prepare or review project scopes, feasibility studies, estimates, and definition-phase deliverables
• Act as a technical point of contact for clients and external partners on assigned projects
• Mentor and develop junior engineers while contributing to the continuous improvement of automation standards, tools, and engineering practices
• 8-15 years of utility-focused automation, protection, control, and metering engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from a recognized university
• Eligibility for (or current) Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registration in Canada