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Engineer 1 (EIT) - Mechanical Site (Mica G.S)
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Mica Creek
Employment type: Permanent Region: Southern Interior
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Field
Annual salary: $ 74,300.00 - 93,900.00
What you'll do
- At the heart of the construction and commissioning, you work with technical experts in mechanical equipment,
construction and testing to get answers to technical queries and problems by bringing design engineers and contractors
together to keep construction and commissioning on track.
- Develop and oversee all technical aspects of field engineering for construction and commissioning of new mechanical
equipment. This includes, but is not limited to: piping systems, turbines, hydraulic power units, governors, large gates and
valves, and cranes.
- Construction oversight on major projects, working with our contractors to ensure proper coordination and staging of
construction and commissioning activities. You are involved in reviewing constructability, development of plans, schedules,
procedures, and construction/commissioning methods to assure conformance.
- Perform first-level quality assurance to confirm that the execution of work is in accordance with the plans, specifications,
drawings, and industry standards – the work adheres to accepted engineering practice and the contract.
- Ensure that tests and inspections are performed, witnessed, and documented in accordance with approved procedures
and contract requirements.
- Maintain strong relationships and liaise with different discipline design engineering staff, both to conduct field review and
to organize timely resolution of technical issues. You sort out non-compliance issues in the field by bringing design and
construction people together.
- Collaborate with Construction Management to eliminate any hazards associated with the work that may adversely affect
the environment or the safety or health of employees.
- Organizes the accumulation of assigned discipline technical information (redlined construction drawings, RFIs, non-
conformance reports). Then synthesize this into the construction report telling the construction story.
- You then take the construction over to commissioning – and develop the commissioning plans to systematically bring
mechanical systems on-line and prove out their function. To do this you build the outage and staging plans, and make sure
construction and commissioning work are done per the plan.
What you bring
- Graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering recognized by Canadian Universities.
- Registered as an Engineer-in-Training (EIT) in good standing with EGBC. Applicants with registration in other jurisdictions
will be considered.
- Demonstrated technical writing and presentation skills, excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
