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Specialist Planner - Metro Region - Distribution Asset Planning
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds A03
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
What you'll do
Distribution Asset Planning is offering a challenging and rewarding opportunity for a Distribution System Specialist Planner
to join the Metro Distribution Asset Planning team based at BC Hydro's Edmonds office in Burnaby, BC. This position will
lead the distribution system planning and studies in the Metro and Coastal regions to manage system assets for growth,
reliability, and system performance.
The key accountabilities for the Distribution System Specialist Planner are:
- Provides power system planning expertise and leadership in developing short- and long-term Distribution system plans to
optimize Distribution system performance, considering load growth and customer requirements, operational needs,
corporate objectives, and long-term strategic goals.
- Leads in conducting technical and economic planning studies to identify Distribution system requirements to supply load
reliably and efficiently.
- Proactively undertakes problem identification, risk mitigation, and the development of original solutions to complex or
emerging power system technical and business issues.
- Provides project leadership to meet broad goals or objectives, schedules and budgets; assigns work and gives
instructions, advice and technical guidance to other engineers and technical support staff.
- Reviews work of other technical staff, including consultants and contractors, to ensure accuracy, achievement of required
results, and adherence to accepted engineering practice.
- Leads the development and implementation of business objectives and performance measurements.
- Leads, provides expert input, and represents Distribution Asset Planning in the public consultation and regulatory process.
- Develops briefings notes on complex technical and business issues to inform senior management and develops
responses to regulatory-related matters.
- Fosters collaboration and builds influential relationships within planning teams and across BC Hydro.
- Leads, develops, maintains and strengthens relations with external communities, municipalities, consultants, technical
societies and associations, industry interest groups, suppliers and other utilities.
What you bring
- A recognized Electrical Engineering degree and registered, or eligible for registration, as a Professional Engineer with
Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC).
- A minimum of 10 years of progressive and comprehensive engineering experience, with a primary focus on power system
planning and operations (generation, transmission, distribution).
- Knowledge of electric utility and power system modelling concepts.
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills including the ability to conduct negotiations, make
presentations to technical and non-technical audiences, write technical papers and reports, and liaise with peers and
experts in BC Hydro and externally.
- Excellent leadership, organizational, team building and project management skills, including cost control and project
administration.
- Proven ability to think independently, strategically, and laterally, to highlight improvement opportunities, and drive change.
- Knowledge of smart grid is an asset, for example, Battery Energy Storage Systems, Distributed Energy Integration,
electrical vehicle charging systems and non-wires alternatives.
