$100,000 jobs in Vancouver Island, BC

Job description

West Coast Pre Fab is a Chemainus based mechanical maintenance and fabrication company. Our shop team bids, details, fabricates and in many cases erects, hundreds of thousands of pounds of steel every year. Our field teams travel around Western Canada, installing and maintaining assets as a variety of industrial sites.

To expand our engineering team, we are looking for a driven Senior Engineer, Senior Design Engineer or Engineering Manager to manage a branch of our business. As a potential partner, compensation and financial rewards are flexible and are almost unlimited for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit.

This is a position for a senior designer who is ready to manage a small team and willing to push to grow the business. We have work supporting our fabrication and maintenance teams but must also develop outside clients.

Candidates must be experienced engineers with more than 10 years experience in Canada. All experience is considered, but to run a design business with Canadian codes and laws, 10 years in Canada is required.

Candidates must be from a mechanical, civil, structural or industrial engineering discipline. We value all disciplines, but they are not what we are looking for in this post.

Candidates must be design focused. We have other (separate) Project Engineering postings open.

We have worked hard to establish mechanical and structural design capabilities in intermediate and senior capacities. West Coast Pre Fab also has a team of Project Engineers across all skills to execute construction and maintenance projects.

A successful applicant would have experience with design engineering. Critically:

• Safety
• Project Risk
• Constructability
• Feasibility
• Value to Client

This is a permanent full-time position with plenty of opportunity to take on stimulating, challenging and varied work across commercial and industrial sites and plants.

All those meeting the non-negotiable requirements are invited to apply but we may not be able to contact candidates not pre-selected. Please reach out if you want to discuss in addition to applying here, but our only shot list is on this posting.

Non-Negotiable Requirements

Good standing with EGBC as a P.Eng. (or able to transfer from another provincial body, not as an EIT or restricted, within 90 days, condition of employment)

BEng or BSc in engineering (or equivalent)

10+ years of Canadian design experience

Local to Cowichan or willing to relocate

Strong understanding of personal capabilities with respect to timeframes, scope of practice and risk

Emphasis on entrepreneurial spirit, growth is required to meet our minimum obligations

Background

Design experience will be prioritized in these fields:

• Piping
• Pressure vessels
• Tanks
• Steel structures
• Material handling

Candidates will not have experience will all of the areas we work in, but will be prioritised if they demonstrate knowledge in one ore more of the preceding.

Typical Duties – General

Design tasks - varied based on education, experience and professional comfort, as well as the work we are awarded

Manage a small team of designers, typically 2-4 professionals

Review work to determine if the company has the expertise to accomplish the work

Assist in quoting, estimating the hours that design tasks will take

Review drawings prepared by our drafting/detailing team

Work with the project management team after the design phase to get a quote or execute the construction/maintenance work

Perform required quality checks on work

Work with outside service providers for mandatory reviews (two-way street)

Support the sales team and develop leads and clients

Recommended Skills

Attention to detail

Proficient in reading and interpreting structural, mechanical, and architectural drawings

Able to create drawings, enough to convey concepts or pass to designers or drafts people

Familiar with WorkSafe regulations an asset

Knowledges of CWB & AWS welding symbols an asset

Clear and concise communications with the client

Open and comprehensive communications orally and in writing with our team of estimators, detailers, project managers

Driver’s license

Open to Discussion

This is an interesting roll, with existing work servicing our internal projects, but where the sky is the limit. We are open to discussion on how you would balance life and on compensation. It is a long term roll that would require several years to make headway. We are not open to fully remote or contractor arrangements.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From $125,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• RRSP match

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Chemainus, BC V0R 1K4: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (required)

Experience:

• engineering design: 10 years (required)
• Canadian design: 10 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Professional Engineer (P.Eng) - (Not EIT or restricted) (required)

Work Location: In person