Electrical Protection & Controls Design Lead / Technologist

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Wood is currently recruiting a Electrical Protection & Controls Design Lead / Technologist to join our Oil, Gas & New Energies (OGNE) business. This position offers a hybrid work model and can be based in Calgary AB.

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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced designer with a proven track record in protection, control, and metering system design for electrical substations. You will provide technical leadership and support to a team of engineers and designers, delivering projects from conceptual stage through construction and commissioning.

Key tasks include conducting protection coordination studies, relay settings, SCADA and HMI configuration, developing AC/DC schematics and three-line diagrams, panel layouts, performing engineering design reviews and factory inspections, and supporting construction and commissioning activities.

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood’s Oil, Gas & New Energies business delivers innovative, reliable, and sustainable electrical infrastructure solutions for Oil & Gas customers across Canada. Our teams deliver high-value projects across transmission, distribution and substation programs.

- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs

- A team focused on individual growth, work–life balance and healthy team dynamics

- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews

- Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle

- Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests

In our recruitment and hiring process at Wood Canada Ltd., we do not employ artificial intelligence or automated systems to screen or select candidates.

We are committed to ensuring fairness and inclusivity by relying on the expertise from a team of professional recruiters for application reviews, interviews, and qualification assessments.

- Provide technical leadership and support to a team of engineers and designers to develop protection, control, and metering system designs for electrical substations (12 kV–240 kV) from concept through construction and commissioning

- Serve as Design Lead on assigned projects: develop one-lines, schematics, AC/DC and three-line diagrams, panel layouts and wiring diagrams

- Perform protection coordination studies using ETAP/SKM and configure protection relays, SEL RTAC, GE RTU, RTU/HMI systems and Ethernet switch configuration

- Design SCADA, RTU and HMI systems and prepare associated deliverables

- Review and prepare engineering drawings and inspection/testing procedures

- Support construction and commissioning activities, including factory inspections and client technical reviews

- Participate in Safety-by-Design and constructability review meetings and prepare conceptual/feasibility/definition phase scopes and estimates

- Liaise with clients at the discipline level on technical matters and mentor junior engineers

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. Even if you don’t match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

- Diploma in Electrical Engineering Design Technology or similar

- Minimum 10 years’ Protection & Control engineering experience, including SCADA and metering systems

- Proficiency with relay setting and protection tools such as ETAP, SKM PowerTools, EasyPower, ASPEN, CAPE, and experience with SEL and GE relay programming tools

- Strong written and verbal English communication skills

- Proven ability to lead technical teams and deliver projects in a fast-paced environment

Desirable:

- 3–4 years’ experience performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high-voltage utility transmission systems (asset)

- Familiarity with substation protection & control maintenance and operational practices (asset)

- Experience executing EPC projects (asset)

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.