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Senior Engineer - Grid Modernization
Number of positions: 2 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: $ 109,700.00 - 138,700.00
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 Senior Engineer supports modernization initiatives
across multiple technology and business domains 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 position provides an opportunity to work across organizational boundaries and contribute to some of BC Hydro's most
significant modernization initiatives.
What you'll do
- Support development and implementation of Grid Modernization initiatives across the modernization portfolio.
- Support development of modernization business cases, investment recommendations, implementation plans, and
strategic initiatives.
- Assist in documenting current-state and future-state business processes, governance structures, stakeholder interfaces,
and operating models.
- Develop deployment plans, program roadmaps, implementation strategies and recommendations that integrate technical,
operational, asset-management and business considerations.
- Gather and synthesize information from stakeholders across Transmission and Distribution Planning, Sustainment,
Engineering, System and Field Operations, Telecommunications, Technology, and Project Delivery.
- Identify and manage technical, operational, schedule, resource and organizational dependencies,resolving issues within
the workstream and escalating significant decisions or conflicts when required.
- Support process improvement initiatives that enhance coordination, accountability, organizational effectiveness, and
modernization outcomes.
- Monitor implementation progress, maintain initiative tracking information, and support modernization reporting activities.
- Contribute to development of performance measures, benefits realization approaches, and continuous improvement
initiatives.
- Prepare clear recommendations, decision materials, progress reports, risk assessments and presentations for
management and program governance.
