**Division:**Distribution Engineering - Electricity

**Location:**Edmonton, AB

Your energy belongs here!

Position Summary:

*Always there. Anywhere.*That’s us! We’ve got a lot of energy at ATCO, focused on creating prosperity for generations to come. Embrace challenge and growth because your career journey at ATCO has the potential to be full of new experiences, inspiring challenges, and growth without boundaries.

At ATCO, our senior engineers form a crucial component to the overall business, and their value is consistently recognized. Here you will have opportunities to lead initiatives with your technical expertise and will be propelled to take responsibility and embrace challenges. It’s part of our culture of growth and caring - for each other, our communities, and for those who need us. It comes down to trusting people and taking every opportunity to ensure they feel part of our peer community.

Reporting to the Supervising Engineer, Central Distribution Engineering, this position is responsible for engineering, authentication and validation of overhead and underground designs, along with operational planning. This area of responsibility will require technical skills in civil structure design, electrical design and electrical operational planning.

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and mentoring of TRTs, EITs, and Expeditors in complex distribution design and operational planning. This includes authentication, peer reviews and technical support.
• Authentication and validation of professional work products for distribution design. Ensure best practices and principles in our professional practice management plan (PPMP) are being followed.
• Oversee projects assigned to Engineering Contractors as Owner Engineer to ensure successful project execution.
• Provide engineering support to the regional team including PLTs and Construction leads. Identify issues and propose solutions that meet our construction manual and code requirements.
• Be familiar with our Distribution Construction Standard Manual DCSM, CSA and AEUC codes and regulations.
• Project estimating for complex projects including determining routing and estimating, participating in field checks, determining most efficient routing, identifying material requirements, applying pricing, schedules, and commercial terms for customer proposals.
• Project design of overhead and underground distribution facilities including application of company standard structures, structure loading analysis, and determining pole class and guy length requirements, clearance calculations of overhead facilities
• Sizing electrical equipment, wire, and cable, sizing of appropriate over current protective devices, voltage drop calculations.
• Providing support to all groups in the organization on the roles and responsibilities of the Large Distribution project process.
• Project Management from initiation until the project is released to construction. Update project management tool (APS – ATCO Project Server) in a timely fashion.
• Build schedules for projects and identify changes to projects and associate risks with those changes. Mitigate risks where possible.
• Managing and owning the relationship with the customer from the time the project is raised, until it is released to construction.
• Identify ways to meet and exceed customer experience expectations, improve service delivery and reduce costs.
• Lead process improvement teams to make changes to our systems, standards and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Electrical or Civil preferred).
• Professional Engineer registered or eligible for registration with APEGA.
• A minimum of five (5) years of related experience as a Professional Engineer, preferably within an electrical utility environment.
• Strong technical skills in civil structure and electrical design.
• Previous experience working with medium voltage systems is an asset.
• Previous experience working with ATCO’s Distribution Construction Standards Manual is an asset.
• Previous experience with PLS-CADD or other powerline modelling software is an asset.
• Superior interpersonal and organizational skills in addition to strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A valid Alberta driver’s license (Class 5).

What We Offer:

• A culture based on caring, integrity, agility, collaboration, and striving for excellence
• Competitive compensation
• Flex benefits
• Tuition assistance program
• Training and mentorship programs
• Charitable donation matching

ATCO - The place to be at with diversity of operations across multiple business lines and geographies and there are always opportunities to work in different departments or roles.

We would like to thank everyone for their application; however, only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

ATCO Electric is part of ATCO Ltd. With approximately 6,000 employees and assets of $23 billion, ATCO is a diversified global holding corporation with investments in Structures & Logistics (workforce housing, innovative modular facilities, construction, site support services, and logistics and operations management), Energy Infrastructure (electricity generation, transmission and distribution; natural gas transmission, distribution and infrastructure development; energy storage and industrial water solutions; and electricity and natural gas retail sales), Transportation (ports and transportation logistics) and Commercial Real Estate. More information can be found at www.ATCO.com. ATCO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Issued: March 16, 2026

Expiry: March 23, 2026