Principal Electrical Designer
Duration: 12 months renewable
Location: Alberta
Start date: Monday - Friday
Position Overview
The Principal Electrical Designer will provide senior-level design leadership across complex multidisciplinary industrial projects. This opportunity is suited to a highly technical Principal Electrical Designer with strong experience delivering high-quality electrical design packages across concept, FEED, detailed design, and construction support phases. The Principal Electrical Designer will play a key role in driving design quality, technical consistency, and effective coordination across project stakeholders. This Principal Electrical Designer position offers the chance to contribute meaningful technical leadership while supporting the successful delivery of major project outcomes.
Role Context
This role sits within the resources, energy, and complex process industries, supporting major industrial projects across the full project lifecycle. The working environment is multidisciplinary, with close coordination across electrical, instrumentation, process, mechanical, piping, and automation teams. The role includes involvement in design development, procurement support, construction support, and commissioning-related activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development, coordination, and quality assurance of electrical design deliverables across concept, FEED, detailed design, and construction support phases.
- Provide technical direction, oversight, and mentorship to electrical designers and drafting teams, including task allocation, workload planning, and design reviews.
- Ensure electrical design deliverables meet company, client, statutory, and regulatory requirements while supporting on-time project delivery.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver integrated electrical design solutions.
- Support procurement, construction, and commissioning activities through review of technical documentation, vendor information, and resolution of design queries.
- Identify and resolve technical discrepancies, risks, and design issues, while contributing to constructability, maintainability, and operability reviews.
Qualifications & Experience
- Essential: Accredited Engineering Technology, Design, or related technical qualification.
- Essential: Extensive experience in senior-level electrical design roles on large multidisciplinary industrial projects.
- Essential: Demonstrated ability to interpret, develop, and review complex electrical drawings, schematics, and technical documentation.
- Essential: Strong knowledge of electrical design deliverables including single-line diagrams, schematics, equipment layouts, cable schedules, tray and conduit layouts, load lists, MCC layouts, grounding and bonding drawings, lighting layouts, hazardous area layouts, bills of material, material requisitions, and work packages.
- Essential: Strong understanding of low and medium voltage power distribution systems, motor control, variable frequency drives, lighting systems, grounding, bonding, lightning protection, and hazardous area electrical design.
- Essential: Strong communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
- Desirable: Engineering degree or diploma.
- Desirable: Professional designation or eligibility for certification relevant to design or engineering disciplines, such as APEGA, ASET, or equivalent.
Pay: $50.00-$70.00 per day
Work Location: In person
