Electrical Lead

Vista Projects Limited; Calgary; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Vista Projects Limited seeks an experienced Electrical Lead to supervise and guide the electrical discipline on multifaceted energy projects from concept through delivery. You will oversee planning, scheduling, and coordination with project management and clients, ensuring adherence to scope, schedule, and technical standards.

The role calls for leading a team of engineers, providing technical direction, and contributing to design reviews and risk management in a dynamic energy sector

Responsibilities

• Leading an engineering team within the electrical discipline from inception to completion.
• Planning, scheduling and reviewing work programs to align with project plans and client requirements.
• Preparing weekly progress reports and updating project schedules.
• Establishing scopes of work, man-hour estimates, schedules and priorities for projects or proposals.
• Supervising and mentoring discipline engineers, providing leadership and direction.

Job description

Vista Projects is an integrated engineering firm who has been solving complex challenges in the energy industry since 1985. We are innovators at our core. We continually find better, smarter ways to design and deliver oil and gas projects, and we are proud to be contributing on some of the most exciting low-carbon and synthetic fuel developments in the North America. For our people, that means meaningful, varied work and a real chance to shape how modern engineering gets done.
We are innovators in the energy industry. We actively find ways to improve how oil and gas projects are designed and delivered, and we are contributing to some remarkable low-carbon and synthetic fuel developments; including electro sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) and gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects. We are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.

Why We Do It

The world needs energy, and better engineering makes the projects that deliver it safer, more efficient and more sustainable. Our multi-discipline teams have designed some of the most challenging and successful projects in the North American energy sector, from early-stage studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions. We take pride in doing that work well, and just as much pride in continuously improving how we do it.

What You Would Do in This Role

The Electrical Lead leads a discipline engineering team in the design of different aspects of energy industry projects from inception to completion. Duties include:

• Planning, allocating and reviewing work programs. This includes updating ForecastWeb on a weekly basis and ensuring it is suitably completed to align with the demand of the Project/Program Manager. The forecast should be updated to current project plans and changes to work plans/resourcing needs are communicated through change management to project stakeholders
• Preparing weekly progress reports for each project including work completed, work planned for the following week and discipline needs
• Updating project schedule on a weekly basis including marking tasks which are completed, in progress, and any potential delays. In addition, ensure tasks are listed correctly in schedule. Project schedule along with tracking engineering tasks and deliverables are to be reviewed and maintained in conjunction with Project Management
• Establishing scopes of work, man-hour estimates, schedules and priorities for projects or proposals
• Scheduling and expediting department work
• Supervising an engineering team involved in the conception, planning and development of engineering design, projects, processes, proposals and estimates
• Providing leadership and mentorship to project/program discipline engineering team; acting as a focal point for expertise and direction on engineering solutions
• Providing guidance in the design and delivery of complex engineering projects within their discipline
• Guiding discipline team on project work through to completion in accordance with the schedule and budget on assigned major projects of high technical complexity
• Assisting in the negotiation of critical engineering issues
• Administering the planning, scheduling, cost control and technical conformance to the design
• Attending status meetings with clients, project management and suppliers
• Coordinating activities with other departments and clients
• Maintaining current knowledge of industry and regulatory standards
• Assigning and reviewing work of discipline engineering staff
• Reviewing vendor or subcontractor quotations, drawings, and specifications for technical adequacy and conformance with project requirements
• Ensuring adherence to Vista Quality Management System (QMS)
• Ensuring design is in accordance with applicable codes and requirements, including Vista and client specifications and standards
• Supporting development, implementation and maintenance of discipline design standards, checklists and procedures
• Actively stewarding change management for their discipline activities and impacts to other discipline activities
• Supporting discipline man-hour estimates for proposals
• Providing construction support
• Authenticating documentation with a professional engineering stamp as required
• Communicating with the Department Design Lead for designer resources and manhour estimates
• Applying extensive knowledge of energy industry facility related drawing including single line diagrams (SLD), area classifications, electrical layouts, JB wiring diagrams, motor and
• Preparing and reviewing demand load calculations, voltage drop calculations, cable tray fill calculations, EHT calculations, etc.
• Preparing or reviewing ETAP or SKM models
• Applying extensive knowledge in CEC and international codes, standards and approved codes of practice
• Preparing and reviewing material requisitions and technical bid evaluations of electrical equipment such as motors, switchgears, MCC, VFDs, UPS, EHT panels and e-houses
• Preparing and reviewing electrical engineering work packages
• Performing other duties as requested