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Kinectrics

Senior Engineer, Power Transformer Services

Toronto, ON, Canada

Pay: Starting Salary $120,000 annual.
Job type: Contract
Apply by: Oct 28, 2026
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 28, 2026

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Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.

Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That’s why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren’t looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.

Visit our website to learn more: www.kinectrics.com

The Opportunity

Position: Senior Engineer, Power Transformer Services

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Level: Senior

Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON

Department: HVST

Hours per week: 37.5

Number Required: 1

Starting Salary $120,000 annual. Exact compensation may vary depending on the individual experience and qualifications of each candidate. Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.

What We Offer

At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver’s seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.

Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.

Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

Kinectrics is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to support and grow its power transformer services business across Canada. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership in transformer testing, diagnostics, condition assessment, maintenance, life extension, troubleshooting, and forensic investigations. This role combines engineering consulting, field service support, project leadership, customer engagement, and business development activities. The position will provide technical leadership for transformer testing and diagnostics programs involving power transformers, bushings, tap changers, and associated auxiliary equipment. Working alongside field crews, laboratory personnel, and subject matter experts, the successful candidate will develop test plans, oversee execution of specialized diagnostic testing, analyze results, investigate equipment failures, and provide engineering recommendations to support safe and reliable asset operation.

General Accountabilities

Act as a technical and project leader for assignments involving power transformers, including bushings, transformer cores, windings, oil and paper insulation systems, tap changers, cooling systems, monitoring devices, and associated diagnostic technologies.
Lead consulting, laboratory, field testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and asset assessment projects related to transmission and distribution power transformers.
Plan, supervise, and execute transformer oil sampling, dissolved gas analysis programs, oil quality assessments, oil processing and reclamation activities, and transformer dry out projects. Analyze test data and field results to evaluate insulation health, identify emerging concerns, and develop corrective action recommendations.
Perform condition assessments and develop recommendations regarding maintenance, refurbishment, replacement, ratings, loading capability, and life extension of power transformers.
Participate in transformer failure investigations and forensic engineering assignments to determine root causes of equipment failures and service interruptions.
Work collaboratively with forensic engineers, test specialists, field personnel, metallurgists, chemists, and other subject matter experts on multidisciplinary investigations.
Review operating history, maintenance records, test results, inspection findings, event data, and physical evidence to identify contributing factors and failure mechanisms.
Prepare technical reports, expert engineering opinions, forensic investigation reports, and corrective action recommendations supported by sound engineering judgment.
Develop proposals, technical scopes of work, project schedules, cost estimates, and resource plans for transformer engineering and testing assignments.
Present technical solutions and recommendations to customers and support proposal development, contract negotiations, and business development activities.
Lead project teams and provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers, technologists, and field service personnel.
Support the development of new transformer service offerings, diagnostic methodologies, asset management solutions, and forensic engineering capabilities.
Participate in customer meetings, technical workshops, conferences, and industry working groups to support Kinectrics' reputation as a leader in transformer services.
Maintain expertise through continual professional development and participation in organizations such as IEEE, IEC, and CIGRE
Travel within Canada, the United States, and internationally as required to support field testing, inspections, investigations, and client engagements.

Core Competencies

Strong customer focus and commitment to delivering high quality technical solutions.
Demonstrated initiative in identifying opportunities for service growth and technical innovation.
Ability to lead projects and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
Strong analytical and problem solving abilities, particularly in complex equipment reliability and failure investigations.
Ability to mentor and develop engineers, technologists, and field personnel.
Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and client communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple assignments while maintaining technical quality and schedule commitments.

What You Need to Succeed

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline.
Professional Engineer designation in Canada or eligibility to obtain registration.
Minimum of eight years of relevant experience in power transformers, power systems, high voltage equipment, or related engineering services.
Demonstrated experience leading field and laboratory projects involving transformer testing, diagnostics, inspection, condition assessment, oil analysis, troubleshooting, failure investigations, maintenance planning, refurbishment, ratings assessments, and life extension studies.
Experience leading engineering, consulting, commissioning, testing, or asset reliability projects.
Experience performing equipment failure investigations, root cause analysis, forensic engineering assessments, or asset reliability studies is strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of transformer components including windings, cores, bushings, insulation systems, cooling systems, tap changers, and monitoring equipment.
Ability to interpret dissolved gas analysis results, dielectric test data, insulation assessments, electrical test results, thermal performance data, and condition monitoring information.
Experience preparing technical reports, investigation findings, engineering recommendations, and client presentations.
General knowledge of transmission and distribution substations and related high voltage equipment including circuit breakers, cables, surge arresters, instrument transformers, and protection systems.
Familiarity with applicable IEEE, IEC, CIGRE, CSA, and industry standards related to transformers and high voltage equipment.
Strong project management, proposal development, technical writing, and customer relationship skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with electric utilities, industrial facilities, renewable energy operators, transformer manufacturers, testing service providers, or consulting organizations.
Experience presenting technical papers, delivering technical training, or participating in industry conferences.
Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, High Voltage Engineering, Power Systems, Asset Management, or a related discipline.
Participation in IEEE, CIGRE, IEC, or other industry technical committees.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete the security clearance process. The security clearance process is conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and may take up to 12 months to complete.

Kinectrics Inc is strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and welcomes applications from all individuals. To learn more about our commitments please visit our diversity, equity and inclusion and indigenous relations pages.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a voluntary diversity survey. The collection of self-identification data is driven by our commitment to DE&I and ensures Kinectrics' continuous review and improvement of its programs. The information that you provide is strictly confidential and your responses will only be used for statistical purposes. Your responses do not affect your candidacy in any way.

Kinectrics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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Responsibilities

Lead transformer testing, diagnostics, condition assessments, maintenance, troubleshooting, and forensic investigations, including planning and overseeing field and laboratory work and developing engineering recommendations. Manage multidisciplinary projects and customer relationships, prepare technical reports and proposals, mentor staff, and support the growth of transformer service offerings.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline, Canadian Professional Engineer designation or eligibility, and at least eight years of relevant experience. Candidates should have substantial experience with transformer testing and assessment, oil analysis, failure investigations, project leadership, technical reporting, and applicable industry standards.

Skills

Power Transformer Testing and Diagnostics
Condition Assessment
Transformer Oil Analysis
Dissolved Gas Analysis
Failure Investigation
Root Cause Analysis
Forensic Engineering
High-Voltage Equipment
Project Leadership
Project Management
Technical Report Writing
Customer Engagement
Proposal Development
Team Mentoring
Asset Management
Electrical Engineering

Benefits

Performance Pay
Annual Performance Bonuses
Health Benefits
Wellness Programs
Membership Discounts
Employee Referral Bonus
Pension Plan
Career Development Programs
Professional Development and Educational Reimbursements

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Keywords

Power Transformers
Transformer Testing
Transformer Diagnostics
Condition Assessment
Dissolved Gas Analysis
Oil Quality Assessment
Oil Processing
Transformer Dry-Out
Bushings
Tap Changers
Transformer Cores
Windings
Insulation Systems
Cooling Systems
High-Voltage Equipment
Forensic Engineering
Root Cause Analysis
Failure Investigation
Asset Reliability
Life Extension
Commissioning
Maintenance Planning
IEEE Standards
IEC Standards
CIGRE
CSA Standards
Professional Engineer
Project Management
Technical Reporting
Transmission and Distribution Substations

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