Type of position: Trainee

Looking to build your career with us? Join BBA and become part of a team of talented people who have a passion for success and determination to deliver the best for our clients. You’ll have the chance to work on stimulating and instructive projects. You’ll be coached by experienced people who are committed to helping their colleagues develop and happy to share their knowledge.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop within the Process Control and Operational Technology (PC&OT) group at the Saguenay office. This group includes the following disciplines: automation, instrumentation, advanced control, industrial computing and telecommunications. Depending on your interests and business opportunities, you'll have the chance to work on a variety of mandates to explore and develop your knowledge across the group’s disciplines, mainly in the mining and metals, renewable energy and pulp and paper sectors.

An Overview Of Possible Mandates And Responsibilities

• Help produce deliverables for an engineering project cycle
• Program programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and human-machine interfaces (HMIs)
• Perform SCADA integration and programming work
• Help configure historians and appraise data
• Analyze client data to identify root causes of problems and ideas for improvement
• Help analyze needs, select technology and solutions proposed to our clients
• Participate in commissioning and testing at client sites

Do your qualities and values match our corporate culture?

• Action-oriented and results-driven
• Thirst to learn and excel
• Willingness to work together while having fun
• Rigorous and ethical

Overview Of Job Requirements

• Ongoing studies in electrical or automated production engineering or any other related field
• Intermediate English skills to facilitate collaboration with other BBA offices and/or clients in English-speaking Canadian provinces and internationally; you may need to use English occasionally or daily, depending on current projects
• Advanced French skills to facilitate collaboration with other BBA offices and/or clients in Québec
• Asset: knowledge of object-oriented programming
• Asset: knowledge of programming PLCs
• Asset: knowledge of the SQL language and relational databases

At BBA, You Get Many Benefits

• Access to many experts and coaching
• A collaborative team that shares its ideas and knowledge
• Friendly, eco-mindful and high-tech workspaces

About BBA BBA is one of Canada’s leading private consulting engineering firms, with over 45 years of experience serving the energy and natural resources industry.

Our people are the foundation of our success. Their passion and excellence have earned us recognition as one of Canada’s Best Employers and Best Managed Companies , and we’re committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels empowered to grow, lead and be themselves.

Our teams bring together engineering, environmental and commissioning expertise to deliver practical, innovative and sustainable solutions—from strategy to execution. With 20 offices across Canada, the U.S. and Latin America, we combine local presence with international reach, offering clients close collaboration and field-ready support.

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