Asset Strategy / Lifecycle Engineer
Location: Alberta, Canada
Work Arrangement: Primarily Remote, with occasional in-person meetings
Contract Length: 12 months, with potential extension
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
About the Role
Brunel is seeking an experienced Asset Strategy / Lifecycle Engineer to support our client, a leading electrical utility in Alberta. This role will focus on asset lifecycle planning, sustainment capital planning, and the development of business cases supporting investment decisions for electrical utility infrastructure.
The successful candidate will work closely with Engineering, Operations, Finance, Asset Management, and Regulatory teams to assess infrastructure needs, evaluate asset condition and risk, analyze potential solutions, and develop clear, technically sound capital investment recommendations.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced electrical utility engineer who combines strong technical knowledge with asset management, lifecycle planning, and business-case development experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop asset lifecycle strategies for electrical utility infrastructure.
- Assess asset condition, reliability, risk, and future infrastructure requirements.
- Support transmission and/or distribution system planning and sustainment capital planning.
- Identify requirements for asset replacement, refurbishment, maintenance, and system upgrades.
- Lead structured problem definition and alternatives analysis with engineering and operational stakeholders.
- Perform or support lifecycle, technical, and economic evaluations of potential solutions.
- Develop clear and technically supported capital investment recommendations and business cases.
- Gather technical input from engineering and operational subject matter experts and translate it into effective business-case documentation.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Finance, Asset Management, and Regulatory stakeholders.
- Support regulatory documentation and capital investment justification associated with utility planning and regulatory applications.
- Clearly communicate complex engineering information to both technical and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Active Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Alberta is required.
- Minimum 4 years of experience within an electrical utility environment, including exposure to transmission, distribution, and/or telecommunications assets.
- Minimum 1 year of experience in asset management, asset strategy, lifecycle engineering, system planning, and/or utility capital planning.
- Experience assessing infrastructure requirements and developing asset replacement, refurbishment, maintenance, or upgrade strategies.
- Experience supporting capital investment recommendations, alternatives analysis, and/or business-case development.
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across both technical and business stakeholder groups.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience within an Alberta electrical utility environment.
- Knowledge of Alberta utility regulatory processes and/or Alberta Utilities Commission rate applications.
- Understanding of asset condition, reliability, risk, and lifecycle management principles.
- Experience with transmission and/or distribution infrastructure.
- Experience with sustainment capital planning and investment prioritization.
- Strong business-case development and technical writing capabilities.
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