Transmission Lines Engineer — Hybrid & Shareholder Opportunity

CIMA+; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Benefits

RRSP contribution

Employee ownership

Hybrid work

Vacation 3–5 weeks

Training programs

Job summary

CIMA+ is seeking a Transmission Lines Engineer to join our Energy & Resources team. You’ll apply your PE credentials to lead design tasks for high‑voltage projects across Canada, working in a hybrid setting.

You’ll collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, advance engineering standards, and contribute to major infrastructure initiatives in a dynamic, innovative environment. With a strong focus on safety, accuracy, and client service, you’ll prepare reports, designs, and documentation while

Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience and a history of working in Transmission projects.
• Registered member of a Professional Engineering association in ON or another province of Canada.
• Proficient in design/analysis software and CAD systems.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Excellent communication abilities in English – written and verbal.
• Experience in design tasks including scope, schedule and cost control.
• Integrity, team spirit, and a commitment to excellence.

Responsibilities

• Develop safe engineering solutions through design, problem analysis, and interpreting specifications for medium complexity utilities projects.
• Assist project/operations management in meeting safety, cost, quality, and schedule targets by proposing plan changes, recommending contractor payments, preparing progress reports, and coordinating work schedules
• Resolve highly technical and unusual design and field engineering problems through independent studies, analysis, exercising judgment in information selection, and recommending safe engineering designs
• Contribute to CIMA+'s engineering practices by conducting studies, developing technical standards, exercising judgment in information evaluation, recommending designs, and providing guidance to other engineers
• Deliver exceptional customer service by defining engineering scope with clients, establishing design criteria, approving technical documentation, and assessing/reporting progress against standards and objectives for safe, quality, budget‑compliant, and timely project completion
• Design overhead line structures and associated facilities for voltages from 60kV to 500kV in an electric utility environment
• Prepare project documentation like reports, specifications, proposals, estimates, design basis, and test plans per CIMA+’s practices
• Develop design work packages with scope, duration, and effort estimates, and manage design tasks including scope, schedule, and cost for existing and new facilities
• Provide signed and sealed engineering deliverables as the Professional of Record in accordance with the requirements of the applicable provincial engineering regulator and CIMA+’s practices.
• Offer technical assistance, construction support, and field reviews as required
• Perform structural design, analysis, and detailing for structures associated with transmission underground cables (including potheads, concrete vaults, cable duct banks) and transmission submarine cables (including terminations and potheads)
• Apply loads, design criteria, seismic analysis per regulatory and industry standards, considering associated civil, mechanical, electrical systems like foundations, lightning protection, conductors, and hardware

Skills

Transmission project experience

CAD software proficiency

MS Office proficiency

English communication skills

Education

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in ON or another Canadian province

University Degree in Civil, Structural or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CAD software

MS Office

Job description

CIMA+ is seeking a Transmission Lines Engineer to join our Energy & Resources team. You’ll apply your PE credentials to lead design tasks for high‑voltage projects across Canada, working in a hybrid setting.

You’ll collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, advance engineering standards, and contribute to major infrastructure initiatives in a dynamic, innovative environment. With a strong focus on safety, accuracy, and client service, you’ll prepare reports, designs, and documentation while