Location: Burnaby, BC
Reports to: Manager, Lower Mainland Operations
Job Posting#: 37-2023
Application Deadline: April 9, 2023

We have an opening for a Distribution Designer in our Burnaby office.

Responsibilities:

• Electrical and civil design to support underground and overhead electrical distribution infrastructure (4kV \xe2\x80\x93 25kV system voltages).
• Material take-offs and project estimating.
• Voltage drop and transformer loading calculations.
• Cable pull calculations using Pull Planner.
• Pole modelling calculations using SPIDAcalc and PLS-CADD.
• Reviewing engineering consultant drawings such as civil, architectural, landscape, and on-site electrical to coordinate and eliminate design conflicts.
• Site visits to inspect electrical and civil electrical infrastructure and stake pole and anchor locations.
• Project schedule management and tracking.
• Research and application of engineering standards and codes.
• Collaboration with project team (project managers, designers, drafters, and site inspectors) to ensure projects are executed successfully.
• Design coordination with external clients, engineering consultants, utility approval teams, municipalities, material and construction suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Drafting/redlining in AutoCAD and Bluebeam.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Engineering technologist diploma or Bachelor of Engineering / Applied Science degree from a recognized college or university (electrical or civil preferred).
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop business relationships conducted in a professional manner.
• Demonstrated self-motivation and drive for improvement.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities concurrently.
• Class 5 driver\xe2\x80\x99s license.

Additional Assets:

• Experience in design and cost estimating of electrical distribution projects.
• Experience working in the shallow utility industry.
• Experience creating Visual Basic Application (VBA) macros in Microsoft Excel.
• Exposure to telecommunications, natural gas, street lighting, traffic signals, buildings electrical, civil, landscape, or architectural design.
• Familiarity with BC Hydro design standards.
• Familiarity with construction and land development industry.

Primary offers a highly competitive compensation package including, competitive salaries, bonuses, Health & Dental benefits, Health Care Spending Account, flexible work schedules, paid vacation, Company Matching RRSP, flex days, and several career and professional development opportunities. This position may require the successful candidate to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. It may also require the successful candidate to undergo regular COVID-19 testing






Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan. We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress

Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit. We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.

HEALTH & SAFETY

The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal. Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a safety standard as high as our own.