Senior Electrical Engineer: Lead Design & Projects

Stantec; San Juan de Terranova; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec’s Buildings team in Canada is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electrical design on varied projects and mentor junior staff. You’ll guide calculations, drawings, and specifications while ensuring code compliance and project quality.

Travel within the maritime provinces will be required. You’ll contribute to project coordination, proposal development, and client engagement, leveraging your strong communication skills and your ability to work in a collaborative, field-oriented

Qualifications

• Must be self-motivated, team oriented, efficient, and a good communicator.
• Be comfortable in a client-facing role and in the field.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills. Bilingual (English and French) would be a major asset.
• Understanding the importance of complying with Stantec's EH&S program, with a focus on safety in the field.
• Possess a valid driver’s license and be willing to travel within the maritime provinces.

Responsibilities

• Prepare site plans, floor plans, diagrams, risers, schedules and details to adequately describe areas of project scope.
• Engage in the development of electrical design through sketches, electronic models and diagrams. Provide markups and design direction for junior engineers and designers
• Evaluate, select, specify and detail electrical, communications and life-safety systems or products for a project and assuring work is reviewed for overall technical accuracy
• Lead the preparation and coordination of the project specification documents.
• Perform and oversee the development of calculations using company standard design tools and proprietary manufacturer software as required.
• Participate in or lead project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors.
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control on projects. Adhere to Stantec’s internal quality control procedures.
• Collaborate in person or remotely with team members, other Stantec disciplines and clients to achieve project success, acting as a project team member, discipline lead or a project leader.
• Conduct field reviews of projects during construction to verify conformance with construction documents and provide letters of professional assurance to the applicable authorities having jurisdiction.
• Respond to contractor queries (typically via RFI/SI/CD process)
• Evaluating proposed products for compliance via shop drawing review.
• Provide input on multiple projects with overlapping demands and deliverables.
• Assist project managers with describing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing and schedule.
• Assist in business development, including proposal development, interfacing with clientelle, etc.
• Strong leadership skills, with proven ability to lead project tasks and activities.
• Strong collaborative skills while working with a single or multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to check the work of others for accuracy and completeness and manage time to meet project budget and schedule.
• Ability to assist in recruitment and evaluation of new candidates for the electrical team.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word and Excel primarily).
• Experience in Revit and/or AutoCAD would be considered an asset.
• Experience in dedicated lighting design tools (AGI32 or others) would be considered an asset.
• Comfort with electrical design tools (feeder sizing, conduit fills, generator sizing etc.)

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Client-facing

Education

Electrical Engineering Degree

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

AGI32

MS Office

Job description

Stantec’s Buildings team in Canada is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electrical design on varied projects and mentor junior staff. You’ll guide calculations, drawings, and specifications while ensuring code compliance and project quality.

Travel within the maritime provinces will be required. You’ll contribute to project coordination, proposal development, and client engagement, leveraging your strong communication skills and your ability to work in a collaborative, field-oriented