Co-op Student – Project Management – PMO (EV Service Delivery) - January Winter 2027

BC Hydro; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

BC Hydro is seeking a motivated student/early-career professional to join the EV Service Delivery team in Downtown Vancouver, BC. You will help build and maintain the program framework, prioritize projects, and report progress against strategic goals for our expanding EV charging network.

This role offers exposure to planning, design/build, operations, and contract management across the business. Affiliated with MoveUP/COPE, the position emphasizes collaboration, learning, and contributing to a

Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in a recognized Canadian post-secondary institution.
• Passion for customer, partnership, collaboration and win-win outcomes.
• The ability to prioritize for impact and outcome.
• An ability to manage concurrent projects, tracking milestones, effectively communicating, and managing risk.
• A desire to summarize and present results and implications to a more senior audience.
• Willingness to integrate and teach the latest technology trends for the benefit of overcoming challenges, innovation, and results.

Responsibilities

• Support the EV Service Delivery program framework and projects to align, prioritize, and report progress against goals.
• Work with primes and senior leaders to ensure key deliverables are met and reviewed.
• Collaborate on project management for programs that support our strategy.
• Gain experience across planning, design/build, operations, marketing, contract management, and information technology.

Skills

Customer focus

Partnership building

Collaboration

Prioritization for impact

Project management

Effective communication

Education

Enrolled in Canadian post-secondary

Job description

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we build an even cleaner B.C.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Duties:

To support the EV Service Delivery team, we are responsible for ensuring we have the program framework and projects in place to align, prioritize, and report progress against our goal to build, maintain, and operate our world class EV charging network. To enable our team success, you will:

• 1.Big Rocks – work with primes of our highest priority projects to ensure key deliverables are met and reviewed with our senior leaders.
• 2. Reporting & Governance – work with primes to align metrics and variance explanations with our team and business unit scorecard reporting sequence.
• 3. Project Management – manage project(s) that support our strategy and program.
• 4. Gain Experience in Personal Areas of Interest – we have opportunities for you to gain experience across our business based on your interests, including planning, design/build, operations, marketing, contract management, and information technology.

Location: Downtown Vancouver, BC

“By dramatically expanding access to electric vehicle charging, we’ll help make it easier to choose a car that cuts pollution and saves families money every time they get behind the wheel,” said Adrian Dix, Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions.

We operate greater than 900 ports at 190 locations across the province, approximately 80 per cent of which are DC fast chargers. We plan to expand our network to 3,500 ports by 2035.

Qualifications:

• * To qualify as a candidate, individuals must be enrolled in and yet to graduate from a recognized post-secondary institution in Canada
• * A passion for customer, partnership, collaboration, and creating win-win outcomes.
• * The ability to prioritize for impact and outcome.
• * An interest and/or ability to manage concurrent projects, tracking to milestones, effectively communicating, and managing risk.
• * A desire to summarize and present results and implications to a more senior audience.
• * The willingness to integrate and teach the latest technology trends for the benefit of overcoming challenges, innovation, and results.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This position is affiliated with the Movement of United Professionals union (MoveUP/COPE). http://moveuptogether.ca

Each application must include all of the following required documents: cover letter, resume and transcripts. Incomplete/late applications will not be considered. Please inform your Co-op office about all positions that you’ve applied to as we will contact your school to set up interviews should you be considered. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Our four role types identify the degree of flexibility an employee could have to work from home based on the type of work they do. The flexibility for an individual job is up to the manager for each position and the operational requirements. Employees also have the right to work full-time from the office if they prefer. All of our roles require at least some in-person time.

• Field - No work from home option
• Resident – Works primarily (4+ days per week) in the office.
• Hybrid – May be able to work from home up to 3 days per week.
• Remote – Works from home 4+ days per week

We're always looking for exceptional people to bring new ideas, fresh thinking and the motivation to help shape the electricity system in B.C. It's an exciting time to be a part of our team as we invest in our system and prepare to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

Our values guide our work. Want to join us?

We are safe.

We are here for our customers.

We are one team.

We act with integrity and respect.

We are forward thinking.

BC Hydro is an equal opportunity employer.

We include everyone. We welcome applications from anyone, including members of visible minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.

We are also happy to provide reasonable accommodations throughout the selection process and while working at BC Hydro. If you require support applying online because you are a person with a disability, please contact us at [e-mail]