Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Under supervision from the team leader and supported by the existing 5-person team, your challenges will include:

• Assimilate, apply and promote Boralex’ s occupational health and safety culture
• Lead technical projects from proposal to commissioning:
  • Major equipment fleet modernization
  • Improvement, optimization or reliability
  • Corrective or preventive interventions
• Provide technical council to guide site teams at the collector, substation and interconnexion levels
• Develop, propose and execute solutions to electrical challenges faced by our assets
• Coordinate external resources (outsourcing) and remote teams in a matrix format
• Participate in conferences, webinars and training to carry out a market technological watch
• Support due diligence teams during acquisition projects (M&A)
• Share operational experience with the Greenfield development team

To succeed in this position, you need

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
• 8 years of experience in high voltage, protection and control
• Hands-on and onsite experience
• Knowledge of the US Energy markets and regulations where Boralex is present
• Fluency in English (oral and written)
• Driver's license and passport for occasional travel (up to 20% of the time)
• Resourcefulness and autonomy
• Preferred additional qualifications:
  • Experience in renewable energy operations
  • Graduate studies or certification in project management (PMP, CAPM, MBA…)
  • Understanding of NERC reliability standards (PRC, BAL, MOD)
  • Experience in modeling and simulations (Easypower, ETAP, EMTP)
  • Programming knowledge (Control Expert, Quickset, RTAC, SMP)