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Engineering Team Lead - Stations Engineering
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds 06
Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 131,100.00 - 165,800.00
Position Highlights
The Transmission Stations Engineering Division has an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Team Lead for their
Electrical Team delivering high voltage electrical design of substations, based at Edmonds office in Burnaby, BC. This is a
technical leadership opportunity suitable for someone who has an affinity for teambuilding, establishing and enhancing
relationships with stakeholders delivering, maintaining transmission stations assets.
Reporting to the Transmission Stations Division Manager, the Engineering Team Lead will manage a team of engineers and
technical staff and be accountable to deliver technical engineering for capital and maintenance projects and to provide
technical support in resolving operational issues. Working closely with other Engineering teams, the Team Lead will provide
a safe workplace and people leadership to a team and successfully carry out the following duties:
What you'll do
- Provide leadership, support and advice to team members, encourage their work initiative, and help them grow as
engineers and technical leaders. Demonstrates BC Hydro’s commitment to a diverse, respectful and inclusive workforce.
- Review, enhance and develop methods, procedures and technical standards to take advantage of new technology.
Manage and train personnel in adopting modern design tools and acquiring expertise in implementation of Advanced
Design tools in daily work.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to safety, provide safety leadership, create a safety culture where safety is first, and
employees are recognized for safe performance and compliance with safety regulations and safe work practices. Ensures
team members have applicable safety training for their work, the activities in the annual safety plan are completed, and
team members perform their work safely.
- Prepare or review technical reports, presentations, standards, specifications, guides, or other such documents that
provide engineering expertise.
- Ensure that qualified internal and external resources are available and have the required expertise and tools to optimally
meet work plans. Allocate resources to various projects within the work program; assign and coordinate work, and provide
instructions, advice and technical guidance to other engineers, project, technical and administrative staff. Manage execution
of projects deliverables by team members and monitor schedule milestones and conformance.
- Work with the division manager to develop staffing strategy, recruit, select, and promote staff, and/or procure consulting
services. Develop and implement an employee development program in order to maintain/cultivate the required skills and
expertise. Foster collaboration and knowledge transfer, coaching and mentoring, and organizational awareness. Facilitate
the development of employee soft skills including persuasive influence, collaboration, and conflict resolution.
- Collaborates, builds, and maintains relationships with other Engineering Teams, Asset Planning, Interconnections,
Technology, Project Delivery, Capital Construction, Real-time Operations (RTO), Stations Field Operations as well as
External Service Providers to advance the delivery of BC Hydro’s overall work plan.
