Senior Primary Engineer – FACTs and Substations

Job Description

"We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

Senior Primary Engineer – FACTs and Substations

About the Role

Location

Canada

Montreal

• Canada

Company

Siemens Energy Canada Limited

Organization

Grid Technologies

Business Unit

Grid Solutions

Full-time

Experience Level

Experienced Professional

A Snapshot of Your Day

The Siemens Energy Grid Solutions Engineering department comprises of professionals with experience in Primary, Secondary and Civil Engineering for detailed Engineering, Procurement and Construction Projects for FACTS (SVC, FSC, HVDC), Substations (Air Insulated Substations and Gas Insulated Switchgear substations), Grid Access and electrification projects.

As a member of the engineering team, you will collaborate throughout the entire project lifecycle—preparing and reviewing detailed engineering documents for bidding, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Prepare, review, and modify engineering documentation and drawings, including wiring diagrams, station layouts, bill of materials, and cable lists for Substation and FACTS projects, as well as developing control room and switchgear layout drawings for proposals and projects.
• Prepare Preliminary Power Single Line Diagrams, Aux Power Single Line diagrams and Protection One-line diagrams
• Create and develop High Voltage and Medium Voltage substation layouts, including plan views, section views, equipment views, and details.
• Perform cable ampacity, grounding, lightning, illumination, and station auxiliary load calculations.
• Create Equipment Specifications and detail bill of materials and review customer request for proposal documentation and identify any necessary exceptions, deviations, or clarifications.
• Development of scope of work and Work Break-down Structure (WBS) documents and high-level engineering execution plans for Siemens Energy engineering
• Managing interfaces with multiple internal and external partners, including customers, Siemens Energy engineering teams, engineering contractors, suppliers, and site contractors.
• Monitor/Report project engineering progress and implement mitigation and corrective actions in coordination with project management; help identify and analyze project risks, and help propose remedial actions
• Perform technical due diligence and checking on supplier quotes for equipment and engineering services
• Attend site visits as required to customer project locations during Request for Proposal phase to gather information, and during project phase to support construction and commissioning.

What You Bring

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working on substation projects.
• Experience with FACTS / SVC technology through formal education and/or project work is desirable.
• Licensed Professional Engineer is preferred.
• Prior experience in engineering design for utility power projects is desirable.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD.
• Fluency in English is required to understand international documentation and communicate with global clients, suppliers, and colleagues, in a primarily French-speaking environment.

About the Team

Our Transmission Division offers customers a broad portfolio of products, systems, solutions, and services geared around the key market trends of digitalization, decarbonization, grid stability and electrification. With expertise, passion and commitment, we are working to transmit energy in the most efficient and environmentally friendly way possible.

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

• Career growth and development opportunities
• Supportive work cultureand a healthy work- life balance
• Flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Flexible benefits and savings programs
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy vacation
• Parental leave
• Profit sharing
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

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