Specialist Engineer - Grid Modernization

BC Hydro
Burnaby, BC

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
6 days ago

Benefits

Paid vacation

Skills

Facilitation
Investment
Class 5 Licence
Energy and utilities experience
Team leadership
Coaching
Strategic leadership
Business analysis
Research
Electrical engineering
Continuous improvement
Decision making
Report and presentation preparation
Mentoring
Telecommunication
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
Risk assessment
Electrical Engineering
Cross-functional collaboration
Status Reporting
Team coordination
Negotiation
Cross-functional communication
Project progress tracking
Business process improvement
GIS

Full job description

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Specialist Engineer - Grid Modernization

Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds B03

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

Position Highlights
The Grid Modernization team leads strategic stewardship, governance, coordination, and enablement of modernization
initiatives across BC Hydro, ensuring that diverse stakeholders work together to deliver an integrated and coherent
modernization vision.

Reporting to the Technical Strategic Principal, Grid Modernization, the Specialist Engineer provides technical leadership
and modernization stewardship across BC Hydro's modernization portfolio, including Distribution Automation (DA), Battery
Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Virtual Power Plants (VPP), grid visibility
technologies, climate resilience initiatives, and future modernization opportunities.

This role provides an opportunity to work across organizational boundaries, influence modernization priorities and
implementation approaches, and contribute to some of BC Hydro's most significant modernization initiatives.

What you'll do

Provide technical leadership and stewardship for the development, coordination, and advancement of Grid Modernization

initiatives across BC Hydro's modernization portfolio, including Distribution Automation (DA), Battery Energy Storage
Systems (BESS), Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Virtual Power Plants (VPP), grid visibility technologies, climate
resilience initiatives, and future modernization opportunities.

Lead development of modernization business cases, investment analyses, implementation plans, and recommendations

that support modernization priorities and strategic initiatives.

Develop and maintain deployment plans, program roadmaps, implementation strategies, and recommendations that

integrate technical, operational, asset-management, regulatory, and business considerations.

Lead assessment and continuous improvement of current-state and future-state business processes, governance

structures, stakeholder interfaces, operating models, and organizational accountabilities.

Develop recommendations that improve modernization governance, decision-making processes, coordination,

accountability, organizational effectiveness, and modernization outcomes.

Develop and maintain an integrated view of modernization initiatives across the portfolio, including priorities, risks,

dependencies, implementation status, portfolio performance, benefits realization, and emerging opportunities.

Gather and synthesize information from stakeholders across Transmission and Distribution Planning, Sustainment,

Engineering, System and Field Operations, Telecommunications, Technology, Finance, and Project Delivery.

Build alignment among business units with differing priorities, operational requirements, funding responsibilities, and

organizational objectives.

Lead and facilitate cross-functional workshops, working groups, assessments, and discussions that support modernization

initiatives and portfolio objectives.

Identify and manage technical, operational, schedule, resource, and organizational dependencies, resolving issues where

possible and escalating significant risks, conflicts, and decisions when required.

Monitor implementation progress and support modernization governance, reporting, and portfolio management activities.

Support the assessment, planning, and implementation of initiatives to improve the climate resilience of BC Hydro's

transmission and distribution systems.

Contribute to development of performance measures, benefits realization approaches, and continuous improvement

initiatives.

Prepare recommendations, decision materials, progress reports, investment analyses, risk assessments, and

presentations for management and program governance.

Conduct and lead technical research, utility benchmarking, technology assessments, and engineering analyses to support

modernization decision-making.

Support research, pilots, demonstrations, technology-transfer activities, and modernization assessments.

Monitor utility best practices, emerging technologies, industry developments, and regulatory trends, and provide

recommendations regarding opportunities, risks, gaps, and future modernization requirements for BC Hydro's
modernization portfolio.

Provide technical leadership, coaching, mentoring, and guidance to engineers, project teams, and modernization

initiatives.

Acts as key liaison to stakeholders including Community Relations, Indigenous Relations, and Key Accounts. Provides

coordination and support in regulatory matters.

What you bring

A recognized Electrical Engineering degree recognized by EGBC and/or Canadian Universities. Consideration may be

given to other recognized and accredited degrees (such as Integrated Engineering, Mechatronic Systems Engineering,
Engineering in Smart Grid Systems and Technologies, etc.) with a demonstrable focus in Electrical Engineering in Power
Systems applications and utility environment.

Registered, or eligible for immediate registration, as a Professional Engineer with Engineers and Geoscientists of BC

(EGBC).

A minimum of 10 years of progressive electrical engineering experience focused in the areas of planning, engineering,

transmission/substation/distribution smart grid applications, electric vehicle charging, design of power systems or system
analysis within an electric utility. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in two or more of these areas.

**Technical Leadership, Business Acumen, Relationships**

Think forward by understanding utility best practices, emerging technologies, industry developments, and regulatory

trends that may impact BC Hydro. Identify opportunities, risks, capability gaps, and future requirements, and translate
insights into recommendations that support modernization initiatives and long-term portfolio development.

Provide technical leadership and stewardship across complex modernization initiatives involving multiple business units

and stakeholder groups.

Strong understanding of utility modernization technologies and practices, including Distribution Automation (DA), Battery

Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Virtual Power Plants (VPP), grid visibility
technologies, operational technologies, and emerging industry trends.

Knowledge of utility systems and platforms such as GIS, SCADA, ADMS, OMS, DERMS, asset management systems,

telecommunications systems, and enterprise business applications.

Ability to think conceptually and strategically, integrating technical, operational, asset-management, regulatory, and

business considerations to support effective decision-making.

Ability to assess and improve current-state and future-state business processes, governance structures, stakeholder

interfaces, operating models, and organizational accountabilities.

Ability to analyze and resolve complex technical and organizational challenges while balancing competing priorities and

perspectives.

Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills, including the ability to

communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Ability to build alignment among stakeholders with differing priorities, operational requirements, funding responsibilities,

and organizational objectives.

Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence outcomes without direct reporting authority.

Strong engineering judgment, systems thinking, analytical capability, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Strong business acumen and an ability to connect technical capabilities with reliability, resiliency, operational, customer,

and organizational outcomes.

Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships across, BC Hydro and with external stakeholders, utilities,

consultants

Demonstrated coaching, mentoring, leadership and interpersonal skills.

Successful, creative and persistent approach to problem solving, influencing outcomes, and achieving business

objectives.

High professional credibility, integrity, accountability, resilience and commitment to safety.

What we offer

A comprehensive benefits package
A minimum of 15 paid vacation days
A lifetime pension
Flexible work model, depending on your role type
Training and development courses

For more information on the benefits we offer, visit bchydro.com/benefits.

What else you should know

This posting is for a Full Time Regular position.

Occasional travel within BC, including remote locations and sometimes outside the province/country, may be required

Part of the interview process may include a written assignment, details to be discussed in the recruitment process.

A condition of employment for this job is that you maintain your Class 5 Driver's License: In good standing.

A condition of employment for this job is that you maintain good standing with Engineers & GeoScientists BC (EGBC).

Please be advised that this role has been assessed as safety sensitive and pre-qualification alcohol and drug testing will

be required as a pre-condition to employment.

Don't forget to update your Candidate Profile with your current resume and copies of your certifications. If applicable,
include your Trades Qualification. This will ensure we have all the necessary information to assess your application without
any delays.

Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V3N 4X8

Date Posted: 2026-08-14 Closing Date: 2026-09-18

For internal use 52472266

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