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Sr. Design Manager
Entrust Solutions Group 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lead the substation layouts design team by providing technical guidance, managing workloads, and overseeing project budgets and schedules. Responsible for detailed design of major projects, equipment procurement, and maintaining client relationships.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and leadership to the substation layouts design team
- Routinely review workload for the group to ensure the available manpower resources are aligned with the workload
- Engage in forecasting for future workload and resource planning
- Perform a project management role on engineering only projects
- Track project progress for engineering activities to ensure budgets and schedules are met
- Provide weekly updates to senior management regarding projects progress, budgets and resourcing
- Provide on the job training for new hires and junior members of the team
- Maintain in depth knowledge of client and industry standards
- Oversee and review designs of all projects to ensure technical requirements are met and perform quality checks
- Complete detailed designs of major projects that require high levels of technical competency
- Identify and develop new tools and processes to increase working efficiency
- Develop major equipment specifications such as power transformers, circuit breakers, Gas Insulated Switchgear etc
- Engage vendors for procurement of major equipment and perform bid evaluations
- Attend factory acceptance testing (FAT) for major equipment
- Complete engineering and material cost estimates for bids/proposals
- Complete technical writing for proposals
- Maintain excellent working relationships with existing clients
- Involved in business development strategy
- Identify potential new clients and engage in marketing activities
- Actively promote Safety in Design
- Possibility of travel for site visits and to provide technical support during construction
Requirements
- Proven track record in physical layout design of high voltage facilities
- Minimum 12 years’ work experience
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with a wide spectrum of clients
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and registered as an active member with APEGA
- Must have your P.Eng. designation
- Experience in the utility industry
Benefits
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
- Generous paid time off
- Retirement program with a company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible work schedules
Key Skills
About Entrust Solutions Group
ENTRUST Solutions Group, an ENR Top 100 company, provides comprehensive and dependable engineering, consulting, and automation services to pipeline companies, gas and electric utilities, and industrial customers. With first-hand experience operating and maintaining energy infrastructure, our engineering professionals provide expertise in Pipeline Engineering, Integrity Services, Automation Integration, Electrical Design, Fiber & Broadband Communications, Industrial Solutions, and Process Safety Management. ENTRUST provides innovative engineering solutions to meet our clients’ needs, while consistently maintaining the highest level of ethics and integrity. Our success is achieved through the valued contributions of our talented and diverse employees with more than 3300 professionals across 42 offices.
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