Job Description

Location: Kelowna, BC
Reports to: Manager, BC Interior Operations
Job Posting#: 19-2024
Application Deadline: December 10, 2023

Reporting to the Manager, BC Interior Operations, the Distribution Drafter will be responsible for providing overhead and underground electrical infrastructure design and drafting.

Responsibilities:

• Produce electrical and civil design drawings in AutoCAD, Map3D, and Civil 3D under the guidance of a Senior Electrical Engineer and/or Senior Drafting Manager.
• Review third-party drawings such as civil, architectural, landscape, and onsite electrical for conflicts and information as required by the project.
• Ensure the accuracy and availability of filed drawings through proper filing (electronic and paper).
• Interpreting GIS information.
• Understand and apply electrical and civil standards while drafting designs and other work.
• Importing surveys and other forms of data into drawings as required.
• Site Survey for Record Drawing creation using SPECTRA survey technology.
• Create and develop project construction packages.
• Prepare documentation and track the status of projects.
• Obtain stakeholder approval from utilities and Municipalities.
• Communicate with customers, stakeholders, and project team members.
• Working with senior members to maintain drafting tools, processes, and templates.
• Other duties as required.

Qualifications:

• Computer Aided Drafting Engineering Technology Certificate or Diploma from a recognized college is preferred.
• Strong understanding of civil construction.
• Excellent computer skills including AutoCAD, MS Office, and related products.
• Strong collaborative skills and willingness to liaise with other disciplines (Engineering, Construction, and other subcontractors) to ensure drawings are spatially accurate, standards-compliant, and reliable.
• Work Independently or as a team member.
• Self-starter requiring minimal supervision.
• Desire to learn and take on new challenges.
• Proficient English language skills, verbal and written.
• Class 5 driver\xe2\x80\x99s license.

A few qualifications that would help you succeed:

• Attention to detail and ability to adapt to new standards quickly.
• Familiarity with electrical utility design and construction standards.
• Experience working in the electric utility or engineering environment.
• Experience with drafting, GIS, and MS Office software.

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, and several career and professional development opportunities. Salary Range: $55,000 \xe2\x80\x93 $70,000 per annum.






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.