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people like you to help us. A career at BC Hydro is meaningful and provides you the opportunity to be part of a talented,
inclusive, and diverse team. We offer a healthy work-life balance, competitive wages, a comprehensive benefits package,
and training opportunities to support you in your career growth. We're proud to be ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers
and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers.
We invite you to join us as we build an even cleaner B.C. We welcome applications from all qualified job seekers. If you’re a
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help support you in your application process.
The Human Factors Engineering and Work Methods team develop and maintain >300 work procedures and tool
requirements for Line and Substation electrical trade work, perform specialized safety risk assessments, and provide safety,
operability, workability, and maintainability input to asset investments. We have an opportunity for a Specialist Engineer to
participate in a range of multidisciplinary, cross-organizational safety related work to improve worker safety at BC Hydro.
**Specific duties include:
- Act as and recognized as a technical leader / expert, preferably on Transmission and Distribution Line and associated
Work Methods, internally within BC Hydro and externally among like utilities in North America and be able to respond to
highly complex/sensitive queries related to work methods, tools and equipment and support large capital investment
projects.
- Act as project manager / project engineer and lead high risk/impact/complexity projects or initiatives related to safety and
work methods with cross-functional, cross-organizational scope to final resolution.
- Provide expert advice and counsel within BC Hydro and externally regarding the investigation of serious incidents,
emergent issues and application of new and/or specialized work methods relating to energized work on the BC Hydro
power system.
- Regularly engage and maintain effective professional relationships at all levels with internal and external stakeholders
(including senior management) across the line of business and regulators to determine relative priorities, assess the impact
of work on others and resolve issues of concern.
- Demonstrate regular high-level creativity / innovations with expert knowledge of the field in coordinating, developing,
evaluating, and implementing new design solutions, work practices, tools and / or equipment for work on the BC Hydro
power system.
- Demonstrate leadership potential in leading a sub-function or small function of the team, and provide regular and high
impact downward mentoring, coaching, and development of sub-team members.
- Understand the bigger picture of the organization beyond the technical details and be able to handle competing and
complex issues at their level and at least one level above, and be able to consider impacts to other groups outside of the
key business unit when making recommendations and decisions.
- Be highly influential and drive results and resolution of high risk/impact/complex safety and work methods related issues,
while maintaining positive and collaborative working relationships with peers and groups outside of the key business units.
- Look for and execute ways to continuously improve internal processes within the team and also recommend process
improvements within or outside key business unit.
- Oversee and / or perform safety risk assessments of a broad range and technical nature for complex, high risk, high
