Sr. Electrical Engineer

Teck Resources; Trail; On-site; CAD 122,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Performance Bonus

Profit Sharing

Health Spending Account

Personal Spending Account

Extended Health Care

Dental and Vision Care

Employer Paid Pension Plan

Life Insurance and Disability Coverage

Paid Sick Leave, Vacation and Holidays

Virtual Telemedicine and well-being 지원

EFAP

Job summary

Teck Resources is seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to join Trail Operations in Trail, BC. You will lead reliability and maintenance strategies for the plant's electrical infrastructure, report to the Superintendent of Electrical Engineering, and provide technical support to operations and maintenance teams.

The role offers relocation assistance and a compressed workweek with alternating Fridays off, supporting work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related discipline.
• Eligible for EGBC registration; Teck will support registration.

Responsibilities

• Be a courageous safety leader; adhere to safety and environmental rules.
• Provide front-line and deep technical support for electrical issues.
• Support failures with troubleshooting and repair planning to reduce downtime.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain 600V to 63kV electrical system and associated equipment.
• Align site electrical design criteria with codes and policies.
• Develop long-range electrical asset management plans (5- and 20-year).
• Use PM, PdM, and CBM for maintenance strategy development.
• Manage PM updates backlog and minor revisions.
• Define and track work quality using Trail Operations' processes.
• Oversee design changes from failure investigations.
• Conduct equipment condition assessments and corrective actions.
• Manage MOC processes and conduct HRAs/PHAs.
• Represent owner in design reviews and commissioning planning.
• Support procurement for non-standard parts.
• Mentor new employees, interns, and plant personnel.

Skills

Strong communication

Problem solving

Field troubleshooting

Project coordination

Safety leadership

Reliability principles

Motor/feeder protection knowledge

MS Office / Advanced Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

EGBC registration eligible

Tools

MS Office

CMMS systems

Protection relays knowledge

Job description

Location: Trail, BC, Canada
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Workplace Type: On-site

About Trail Operations

Teck's Trail Operations, located in the community of Trail in British Columbia, is one of the world's largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes. Located in the beautiful West Kootenay region of southeastern, British Columbia, Trail offers outdoor adventure at your fingertips.

Role Overview

Teck is looking for an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to join our team at our Trail Operations, one of the world's largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes. Reporting to the Superintendent, Electrical Engineering, the Senior Electrical Engineer is accountable for improving and sustaining the maintenance and reliability of Trail Operations' electrical infrastructure by investigating reliability problems, developing and implementing maintenance strategies, and providing technical support.

This role is based in the welcoming community of Trail, situated in the beautiful West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Here you will find outdoor adventure at your fingertips! Whether it's biking and skiing, or the laid‑back atmosphere of fishing and hiking, there is something for everyone.

This position offers relocation assistance and a compressed workweek with alternating Fridays off. Come experience what work life balance is all about!

Key Responsibilities

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures
• Provide front-line and deep technical support to business area operations and maintenance on electrical bad actors, chronic failures, and emergent issues.
• Support immediate failures of key electrical equipment with troubleshooting and develop repair plans to reduce plant downtime
• Facilitate root cause analysis and defect elimination; recommend corrective actions (settings updates, maintenance tactics, operating envelopes, design changes).
• Maintain the 600V to 63kV Electrical System and associated equipment within an engineering and trades team. This includes associated equipment with 24V control
• Maintain the site electrical design criteria, installation standards, and maintenance standards, ensuring alignment with applicable codes, regulations, corporate policies, insurance requirements, manufacturer's recommendations, and industry standards.
• Develop long-range (5-year and 20-year) electrical asset management plans across all business units and champion capital allocations for electrical assets considering the overall business needs.
• Use a combination of preventative maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance (PdM) and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for development of asset maintenance strategies
• Manages backlog of PM update requests and delegate minor PM revisions
• Define and track work quality requirements using Trail Operations' quality management process
• Manage design changes to equipment stemming from approved actions identified through failure investigations or assessments of chronic equipment
• Conduct equipment condition assessments and create corrective actions for repair
• Execute the equipment Management of Change (MOC) process for modifications to equipment design and conduct hazard risk assessments (HRAs) or process hazards assessments (PHAs) as part of the MOC Process
• Serve as the owner's representative to business area projects for design reviews of all new electrical installations and major modifications: review basis-of-design, single-line diagrams, protection schemes, equipment ratings, interlocks, and constructability. Build commissioning plan as part of project or emergency repair scoping
• Support the procurement process for non-standard or specialty parts
• Provide electrical engineering guidance to new employees, co-op students, EITs, and plant personnel

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline
• Minimum 10 years of work experience in mining, smelting, refining, or similar heavy industrial facilities in an electrical engineering capacity.
• Applicants must be eligible for registration or registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. ("EGBC") as this will be a condition of employment. Teck will support eligible employees with their EGBC registration
• Strong communication skills and effective interpersonal and problem-solving abilities
• Field commissioning experience an asset
• Knowledge of reliability principles, methodologies and technology
• Technical knowledge in motor protection relays, feeder protection relays, VFDs, transformer protection
• Knowledge of crane controls required would be an asset
• Strong computer skills including MS Office (Advanced Excel)
• Supervisory and mentoring experience an asset
• Experience with predictive maintenance and CMMS systems technologies an asset

Benefits

• Annual Performance Bonus
• Profit Share Plan
• Health Spending Account
• Personal Spending Account
• Extended Health Care
• Dental and Vision Care
• Employer Paid Pension Plan
• Life Insurance and Disability Coverage
• Paid Sick Leave, Vacation and Holidays
• Virtual Telemedicine and additional support for overall well-being
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)

Pay Range

CAD $122,000 - $150,000 per year

The actual amount offered is determined based on the successful candidate's relevant experience, skills, and competencies and considers internal equity.

Why Teck

At Teck, your work matters-to the world, to our communities and to your future. As a leading Canadian resource company, we focus on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love. We do this guided by our values that, together, form The Teck Way . At Teck, you'll find purpose-driven work, a culture of respect and inclusion, and the opportunity to grow your career while helping build a better world.