Senior Mechanical Engineer

Worley•Kitimat, BC

5h•CA$122,176 - CA$169,718•Onsite

About The Position

Worley is currently recruiting for a Senior Mechanical Engineer for the Kitimat Field Engineering team. This is a full-time position based in Vancouver, British Columbia, supporting Rio Tinto's Kitimat Sustaining Capital Program. The role involves providing engineering design services for sustaining capital and operational projects on a brownfield site. The successful candidate will support a site-based project team at the Rio Tinto Kitimat aluminium smelter operations and must be based in Kitimat or Terrace. The role offers support from the Worley Site Team and experienced engineers and designers at the head office in Vancouver.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years technical experience in the Refinery/Smelter/Mining or similar industry; including experience leading projects on a discipline level.
Extensive experience (>6 years recent) in brownfield mechanical equipment and piping systems modification detailed design.
Must have ability to work across multiple projects.
Experience across all phases of engineering projects.
Excellent understanding of Canadian Standard Associations (CSA).
Good understanding and proven experience in: Static Mechanical equipment such as pressure vessels, storage tanks, filter and bag houses, chutes, hoppers, silos, and codes and standard associated with them.
Rotating equipment such as pumps, blowers, compressors, rotary valves, mixers and standards associated with them.
Process equipment and machinery such as crushers, mills, sieves, conveyors, thickeners, etc and standards associated with them.
HVAC system and equipment including dust collection systems.
Fire protection systems and relevant Canadian Code and standards.
Safeguarding of machinery.
Piping and equipment layout designs.
Piping engineering including material specifications, thickness calculations, hydraulic calculations, etc.
Site experience such as scoping solutions, equipment inspections, construction and commissioning.
Witnessing and inspection of equipment during FATs, SATs.
Preparing ITPs, MTOs, datasheets, specifications, construction methodologies, philosophy documents, procurement requisitions and construction scope of works packages.
Input into mechanical estimates and execution schedules.
Canadian regulations and standard regarding occupational health and safety during construction, pre-commissioning, commission and operation of plants.
A dedication to client satisfaction.
Excellent relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
Enthusiastic team player, with excellent stakeholder management skills.
Strong technical experience, practical and leadership experience in the relevant discipline in the same or similar industry, including experience managing and leading brownfield projects and teams.
Highly effective organisational skills is a must including the ability to plan, set goals, prioritise, set accountabilities, manage schedule and budget.
Highly effective verbal and written communication skills is a must including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups and effective technical document writing and grammar skills.
Tertiary qualifications with a 4-year bachelor’s degree in engineering majoring in Mechanical Engineering.
Current unrestricted working rights for at least 6 years within Canada.

Nice To Haves

Hazardous Area Accreditation (desirable)
Functional Safety TUV Certification (beneficial)

Responsibilities

Deliver discipline specific engineering services that meet Worley, the client’s and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
Undertake site activities such as surveys, as-build verifications, engineering support to ongoing construction/commissioning activities.
Undertake engineering design and technical verification of discipline project deliverables by others (within your technical capability).
Ensure a ‘fit for purpose’ solution from concept through to as built is developed considering safe and sustainable design, constructability, commissioning phases, operability, maintainability and decommissioning.
Communicate effectively and regularly with the Customer site-based stakeholders, SMEs and head office project team.
Establish and maintain relationships with site contractors, Customer and other Worley personnel.
Proactively seek an understanding of the safety hazards and risks associated with the asset lifecycle of the designed product, plant or structure; be responsible for action and close out where relevant.
Identify issues and problems; develop appropriate and innovative solutions; and ask for assistance if required.
Perform and/or manage discipline specific engineering services such as:
Ensure the project scope is clear and that changes to scope comply with project change management processes.
Prepare/assist or oversee the production of engineering calculations, drawings and documentation.
Ensure all deliverables are checked in accordance with Worley checking procedures.
Participate in project reviews, HAZIDs/HAZOPs and safety in design workshops as required.
Prepare engineering estimates for the Mechanical discipline in response to requests for quotation including: scoping engineering requirements, detail methodologies and/or engineering tasks in scope and those out of scope, clarify and detail assumptions, exclusions, relied upon information and the deliverables list, input into the schedule incorporating a realistic delivery sequence for the discipline with consideration to project milestones; input from other disciplines and receival of relied upon information, ascertaining resources required based on availability.