Senior/Intermediate Electrical Designer

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Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

What Vista Does

Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years, our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects, from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.

The benefits of our approach apply to new asset developments and brownfield optimization projects across several industrial markets. This includes biofuels and produced water treatment to natural gas and petrochemical processing. We are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.

The Senior Electrical Designer prepares complicated drawings and charts. The Senior Electrical Designer also independently completes thedesign of different aspects of energy industry related projects from inception tocompletion. Duties include:

• Preparing layouts, calculations and designs related to the most complicatedelements of projects
• Designing and detailing complicated new components from previous designsbased on engineering instructions, government and regulatory codes andclient standards
• Producing drawings in a complicated field with minimum technical guidance
• Coordinating complicated work between field and office
• Assisting site during construction
• Assisting with engineering feasibility and cost studies
• Reporting progress of work assignments to immediate supervisor
• Checking the work and assisting in the training of less experienced draftingand design personnel
• Ensuring all drawings and materials are in accordance with Vista and clientspecifications and standards
• Making general recommendations on the utilization of new drafting/designtechniques, normally within an area of specialization
• Analyzing design elements for potential trends, technical feasibility, client orcontractual requirements including identification of deviations in job scopeand estimation of changes
• Supporting the preparation of design estimates, schedules and staffingrequirements
• Extensive experience with generating 3D modelsbased on engineers’ design sketches for cabletrays, junction boxes & local control panels, e-house equipment, EHT, etc. Creating 2Ddrawings from reference of the 3D models
• Experience with production of energy industryfacility related drawing packages including SLDs,
  area classification drawings, electrical layouts, JBwiring diagrams, motor/VFD schematics, cableschedules, EHT isometrics, etc
• Extensive experience with demand loadcalculations, voltage drop calculations, cable tray
  fill calculations, etc. and the ability to thoroughlycheck others’ calculations
• Experience with the requisition of electricalequipment such as switchgears, MCC, UPS,
  EHT panels, e-houses, etc. is considered anasset
• Ability to interpret information from vendorelectrical drawings, P&IDs, LDTs, isometrics etc.and visualize client requirements
• Performing other duties as requested

• Eight years of progressive experience in facilities engineering and design in the energy industry
• Technical school certification / degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team including process, mechanical, civil, structural & architectural, electrical, instrumentation & controls and piping
• Advanced computer skills and experience with major drafting and design software such as AutoCAD, CADWorx, SmartPlant, AutoPLANT, AVEVA and PDMS
• Extensive knowledge of applicable government regulations and regulatory codes
• Excellent communication skills (interpersonal and written) and proven ability to collaborate with team members in a multi-discipline environment
• Strong organizational skills, technical competence and attention to detail
• Ability to meet safety requirements to attend site visits

• Ten years of experience in a designer capacity, ideally with a focus on the energy industry

Working with Vista is a chance to contribute to the typeof challenging municipal and industrial projects that the world requires. If that doesn’t excite you, this role likely won’t be a fit.

Challenging projects require focus and we enable our people to do their best work with modernized project systems that are based on our leading use of intelligent data-centric execution architecture. Our staff and clients like that it gives them real-time access to validated data shared across all project departments. This fosters project design and business decisions based on a single, authoritative source of truth and provides increased transparency and collaboration with team members and clients, leading to improved engineering quality and a product we can all take pride in.

An opportunity with Vista is not just a job; it is a chance to tackle challenging projects with colleagues who are among the most recognized and accomplished in their disciplines.

• A stimulating, fast-paced and challenging work environment where you will contribute to the interesting municipal and industrial engineering projects
• A robust and consistent recruitment process that ensures your colleagues are likeminded and comparably capable
• An opportunity to be a part of an entrepreneurial, technically skilled team which has established leadership in innovative engineering solutions
• A strong value-based philosophy that provides an informal, close-knit team environment, where you and your family feel like a part of our organization, and not just an employee number
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including a performance-linked variable pay program
• Company-sponsored social events and team sports
• Flexible work schedules, half-day Fridays and free parking
• An organization that values and encourages diversity

Please complete the application form below and include a cover letter concisely demonstrating how your skills and experience align with our job posting.By submitting this application, you consent to ourPrivacy Policy, and you consent to receive transactional electronic messages from Vista and third parties acting on our behalf.

Note: As part of the interview process there will be a technical testing component that will take up to two hours and can be completed at home on your own timeline. Candidates may be required to complete a security clearance procedure prior to receiving anoffer.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

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• Industries Wireless Services, Telecommunications, and Communications Equipment Manufacturing

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