Sr. Electrical Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Internship
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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 suppor
- 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
Full description
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