Senior Electrical Engineer

Boralex • New York, NY

120d • Hybrid

About The Position

You will play an important role in the team, under supervision from the team leader and supported by the existing 5-person team. Your challenges will include assimilating, applying, and promoting Boralex's occupational health and safety culture, leading technical projects from proposal to commissioning, and providing technical council to guide site teams at the collector, substation, and interconnection levels. You will also develop, propose, and execute solutions to electrical challenges faced by our assets, coordinate external resources and remote teams, participate in conferences and training, support due diligence teams during acquisition projects, and share operational experience with the Greenfield development team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
• 8 years of experience in high voltage, protection and control
• Hands-on and onsite experience
• Knowledge of the US Energy markets and regulations where Boralex is present
• Fluency in English (oral and written)
• Driver's license and passport for occasional travel (up to 20% of the time)
• Resourcefulness and autonomy

Nice To Haves

• Experience in renewable energy operations
• Graduate studies or certification in project management (PMP, CAPM, MBA, etc.)
• Understanding of NERC reliability standards (PRC, BAL, MOD)
• Experience in modeling and simulations (Easypower, ETAP, EMTP)
• Programming knowledge (Control Expert, Quickset, RTAC, SMP)

Responsibilities

• Assimilate, apply and promote Boralex's occupational health and safety culture
• Lead technical projects from proposal to commissioning
• Manage major equipment fleet modernization
• Implement improvement, optimization or reliability projects
• Conduct corrective or preventive interventions
• Provide technical council to guide site teams at the collector, substation and interconnection levels
• Develop, propose and execute solutions to electrical challenges faced by our assets
• Coordinate external resources (outsourcing) and remote teams in a matrix format
• Participate in conferences, webinars and training to carry out a market technological watch
• Support due diligence teams during acquisition projects (M&A)
• Share operational experience with the Greenfield development team

Benefits

• Membership allowance at a sports centre of your choice
• Flexible and independent schedule
• Pension plan with contributions from Boralex
• Continuous learning opportunities
• Agile work team environment
• Contribution to the growth of a company involved in energy transition

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Utilities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees