At a Glance
- Tasks: Support safe and reliable energy operations while troubleshooting and improving electrical systems.
- Company: Join Suncor, a leader in energy production with a focus on employee success.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, health benefits, generous time-off, and relocation assistance.
- Other info: Work in Fort McMurray with opportunities for career growth and professional development.
- Why this job: Make a meaningful impact in energy while developing your engineering skills in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and 9+ years of relevant experience required.
The predicted salary is between 110250 - 134750 $ per year.
At Suncor, we produce and provide energy. When you join Suncor, you become part of a company that has built a solid foundation for both business and employee success. We are a place where talented people thrive. As part of our team, you play a vital role in delivering energy we all rely on, and you’ll make a meaningful impact in the communities where we live and work.
We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to support the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of the Base Plant high-voltage transmission and distribution system. This operations-focused role provides near-real-time engineering support for system performance, operating decisions, troubleshooting, restoration, and outage risk management, while ensuring compliance with approved facility ratings and applicable FAC-008 requirements.
The successful candidate will bring strong expertise in power distribution equipment, protection and control systems, and equipment reliability to support plant operations, maintenance, and brownfield modifications in a heavy industrial environment.
What we offer:
- Strong compensation: competitive compensation, regional-based uplifts, annual bonuses, and long-term financial rewards.
- Benefits: employee assistance program and comprehensive company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family.
- Generous time-off: paid vacation time and personal time-off to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
- Talent development programs: Internal mobility, succession planning, and employee training and development programs.
- Relocation assistance: support with lease cancellation or home sale, temporary accommodations, rental home search, moving and storage costs, spousal assistance, and more.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and registered, or eligible for registration, as a Professional Engineer with APEGA.
- 9+ years of electrical engineering experience in maintenance, reliability, or operations within oil sands, extraction, processing, petrochemical, refining, or other heavy industrial environments.
- Strong technical expertise with LV/MV motors, VFDs, MCCs, switchgear, transformers, UPS, and protection and control systems.
- Experience developing technical scopes, specifications, work packages, repair strategies, and equipment replacement recommendations.
- Knowledge of applicable CSA, IEEE, NFPA, and NETA standards, with experience in Management of Change, risk assessment, failure investigations, and corrective action processes.
- Ability to interpret electrical drawings, protection settings, test reports, operating data, and vendor documentation.
Responsibilities:
- Provide senior electrical engineering support for equipment failures, abnormal operating conditions, troubleshooting, restoration, and overall reliability improvement.
- Serve as the technical lead for motors, VFDs, MCCs, switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, protection relays, and electrical distribution equipment.
- Analyze operating trends, equipment condition, diagnostics, relay records, maintenance history, and test results to identify root causes and recommend corrective actions.
- Develop scopes of work, technical specifications, work packages, repair requirements, and equipment replacement or upgrade strategies.
- Support repairs, replacements, upgrades, modifications, and obsolescence management for critical electrical equipment.
- Lead or support capital and expense projects through design, vendor review, equipment selection, construction, commissioning, start-up, turnover, and return-to-service.
- Develop and support preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies, equipment lifecycle plans, spare parts strategies, maintenance deferrals, risk assessments, and outage planning.
- Lead or participate in failure investigations, Management of Change, PSSRs, field walkdowns, quality reviews, documentation updates, and provide technical guidance while ensuring compliance with regulatory, safety, and company standards.
Location and other Key details:
- You will work out of our Base Plant site in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
- This is an office-based role with field interface as required to support T&D Operations, outages, system events, and operational risk reviews.
- Hours of work are a regular 40-hour work week, Monday to Friday, with additional support for outages, operational events, on-call coverage, and after-hours consultation as required.
- This position is safety sensitive.
Suncor is committed to providing equal opportunities for employment and building an inclusive, results-oriented and high-performance culture where all members of our team feel safe, valued and respected.
Electrical Engineer in Fort McMurray employer: Suncor Energy Inc.
At Suncor, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation. Our Calgary head office offers a vibrant work environment where employees are empowered to grow through talent development programs and generous benefits, including competitive compensation and comprehensive health plans. Join us to make a meaningful impact in the energy sector while enjoying a healthy work-life balance and opportunities for professional advancement.
