Senior Protection & Control Engineer

Socket.dev; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision plans

Wellness program

Retirement savings plan

Employee stock purchase program

Paid time off

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a Senior Protection & Control Engineer in Western Canada to join our Power Delivery team in Burnaby. The role focuses on protection and control design for substations and power projects, including high voltage systems from 5kV to 500kV, with client-facing responsibilities.

You will lead design packages, mentor junior engineers, coordinate with civil, structural, telecom, and SCADA teams, and support commissioning and field activities to ensure project success.

Qualifications

• Experience in protection and control engineering for substations and power systems.
• Ability to design protection schemes, including relay settings and control logic.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated designs.

Responsibilities

• Develop protection and control engineering drawings for substation and power system applications
• Design protection schemes, including relay settings, control logic, control room layouts, and panel layouts
• Prepare complete P&C engineering design packages, including drawings, specifications, and construction work packages
• Perform QA/QC reviews of P&C designs and deliverables
• Prepare technical reports that clearly communicate engineering concepts and meet client requirements
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated designs
• Lead and mentor Junior and Intermediate engineers
• Provide regular progress updates on assigned deliverables and project milestones
• Support commissioning activities, field engineering, and site troubleshooting
• Interface directly with clients and provide support in coordinating project execution
• Support drafting activities to complete deliverables
• Development of Project Estimates

Skills

Protection & Control engineering

Relay settings

Project management

Mentoring junior engineers

Client coordination

Job description

Our Western Canada Power Delivery team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Protection & Control Engineer to join the team.This position offers you the opportunity to work in a project team environment with other engineers and designers involved in the detailed electrical design and project management of high voltage substation and power projects.

The successful candidate will be working in the areas of substations, renewable energy, air & gas insulated substation engineering & equipment between the 5kV to 500kV levels. The candidate should understand substation and power system protection schemes as they relate to the design of protection and control systems.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Develop protection and control engineering drawings for substation and power system applications
• Design protection schemes, including relay settings, control logic, control room layouts, and panel layouts
• Prepare complete P&C engineering design packages, including drawings, specifications, and construction work packages
• Perform quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) reviews of P&C designs and deliverables
• Prepare technical reports that clearly communicate engineering concepts and meet client requirements
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams (e.g., civil, structural, telecom, SCADA) to deliver integrated designs
• Lead and mentor Junior and Intermediate engineers
• Provide regular progress updates on assigned deliverables and project milestones
• Support commissioning activities, field engineering, and site troubleshooting
• Interface directly with clients and provide support in coordinating project execution
• Support drafting activities, as required, to complete deliverables
• Development of Project Estimates

At Stantec, we know the work we do matters. From decarbonizing mines to modernizing electric grids and building the infrastructure that fuels communities, we’re powering the world.Our clients come to us with their biggest, most complex challenges because that’s where we thrive. And we’re looking for problem solvers, high achievers, and visionaries to help us.

Join us for a chance to grow professionally at one of the world’s top design firms while building our clean energy future.

Pay Transparency:In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off. Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account. The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.