Staff Engineer leading AWS integrations, microservices, and AI automation for EverCommerce’s SaaS service - commerce platform. Designing scalable solutions and guiding engineers across U.S. and Canadian teams.
About the role
- Principal Protection and Control Engineer overseeing projects from 12 kV to 500 kV for utility and renewable clients in Canada. Providing technical leadership and project oversight in high voltage substations.
Responsibilities
- Act as the Qualus’ Protection & Control Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing technical governance across multiple projects and programs
- Set and uphold protection, control, and metering philosophy, standards, and best practices for high voltage substations
- Serve as Principal Engineer or Technical Authority on complex, high risk, or non-standard projects, providing final technical approval and direction
- Provide review and approval of: -Protection planning, philosophy, and application documents -One-lines, schematics, logic diagrams, panel layouts, and wiring diagrams
- Oversee protection coordination studies and relay settings for utility transmission systems, including review and validation of work performed by others
- Chair or participate in senior-level design reviews, hazard and risk assessments, and near miss investigations
- Support Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), Site Acceptance Tests (SATs), and critical field inspections for complex installations
- Advise project teams on construction sequencing, outage planning, and commissioning strategy
- Participate in client technical, Safety by Design, and constructability review meetings
- Provide technical oversight for project scopes, feasibility studies, cost estimates, and definition-phase deliverables, including review of assumptions and risks
- Support Business Development by contributing technical strategy, execution approaches, and risk assessments for proposals and pursuits
- Act as a primary technical escalation point for clients, internal teams, and external partners
- Mentor senior and junior engineers, and play a key role in the continuous improvement of P&C standards, tools, and engineering practices
Requirements
- 20+ years of utility-focused protection, control, and metering engineering experience, with demonstrated system-level responsibility
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from a recognized university
- Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Canada, or eligibility to obtain (U.S. PE considered an asset)
- Recognized expertise in substation protection philosophy, including transmission line, transformer, bus, and feeder protection
- Extensive experience reviewing and approving detailed P&C design drawings and technical deliverables
- Experience performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high-voltage transmission systems
- Hands-on knowledge of protection software and platforms such as ASPEN, CAPE, EasyPower, SKM, and SEL / GE relay families
- Practical experience with substation construction, commissioning, outage planning, and operational interfaces
- Proven ability to provide technical judgment on non-standard, complex, or first of kind applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience on EPC projects, and familiarity with utility maintenance and operational practices, are considered strong assets
- Demonstrated capability to mentor
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- EAP
- Parental Leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
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