Electrical Designer
- Calgary, AB, Canada
Full-time
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Original job description
We are seeking an experienced Electrical Designer to join our team. As an Electrical Designer, you will be responsible for designing electrical systems and creating detailed schematics for various projects. The successful candidates will be working out of our Calgary office, as well as travel to site occasionally to Long Lake (near Fort McMurray) when needed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Familiar with regulations and industry codes and standards.
- Perform engineering analyses and prepare electrical deliverables.
- Understands engineering work planning, scheduling, and cost estimating.
- Aware of technical issues related to electrical design and be able to discuss with customer and suppliers.
- Familiar with procurement process, including preparation of material requisition and bid evaluation process.
- Experience of multi-discipline work environment.
- Conduct power system studies using ETAP or SKM.
- Provide protective relay calculations and settings.
- Carry out engineering calculations and analysis for demand load, equipment sizing, voltage drop, motor starting, neutral grounding resistors (NGRs), and system power factor improvement.
- Design substation layouts, grounding layouts, electrical equipment layouts, MV/LV motor control schematics, control panel layouts, cable, and tray schedules.
- Prepare Area Classification Drawings
- Read and extract electrical information from P& IDs and mechanical equipment load list.
- Develop all electrical deliverables related to Electric Heat Tracing.
- Vendor document/drawing review.
- Prepare MTO estimates.
- Reports to Electrical Lead or Overall Lead.
Qualifications:
- Completion of a two-year college program in Engineering Design and Drafting Technology or three-to-four-year apprentice program in a related field.
- 5 + years experience as a Electrical Designer within the Oil and Gas sector.
- A sound knowledge and experience modelling equipment and electrical designing applications.
- Able to make basic day-to-day decisions which may involve planning and are well defined by project requirements.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Electrical Designer at COOEC will design electrical systems and prepare schematics, layouts and calculations for oil and gas projects. The role also covers power system studies, equipment sizing, procurement support and reviewing vendor drawings.
Requirements
COOEC needs an experienced Electrical Designer with 5+ years in oil and gas electrical design, a two-year engineering design or drafting diploma or a related apprenticeship, and working knowledge of codes, standards and modelling tools such as ETAP or SKM.
Skills
- ETAP
- SKM
- Protective relay settings
- Power system studies
- Substation layout design
- Grounding design
- Motor control schematics
- Control panel layout
- Cable and tray schedules
- Area classification drawings
- P&ID interpretation
- Electric heat tracing design
- Material take-off (MTO) estimating
- Material requisition preparation
- Bid evaluation
- Demand load calculation
- Equipment sizing
- Voltage drop analysis
- Motor starting analysis
- Neutral grounding resistor sizing
- Power factor correction
- Vendor drawing review
- Engineering cost estimating
- Work planning and scheduling
- Codes and standards compliance
Categories
- Engineering
- Energy
- Manufacturing
Keywords
- Electrical Designer
- electrical design
- power system studies
- ETAP
- SKM
- protective relay
- substation layout
- grounding layout
- motor control schematics
- area classification drawings
- P&ID
- electric heat tracing
- MTO estimates
- procurement
- oil and gas
- Calgary
- Fort McMurray
- electrical engineering
- drafting
- CSA codes
Seniority
Senior
Tools
- ETAP
- SKM
Languages
- English
Fields of study
- Engineering Design and Drafting Technology