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Specialist Engineer - Grid Modernization

Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds B03

Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland

Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid

Annual salary: $ 131,100.00 - 165,800.00

Position Highlights
The Grid Modernization team leads strategic stewardship, governance, coordination, and enablement of modernization
initiatives across BC Hydro, ensuring that diverse stakeholders work together to deliver an integrated and coherent
modernization vision.

Reporting to the Technical Strategic Principal, Grid Modernization, the Specialist Engineer provides technical leadership
and modernization stewardship across BC Hydro's modernization portfolio, including Distribution Automation (DA), Battery
Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Virtual Power Plants (VPP), grid visibility
technologies, climate resilience initiatives, and future modernization opportunities.

This role provides an opportunity to work across organizational boundaries, influence modernization priorities and
implementation approaches, and contribute to some of BC Hydro's most significant modernization initiatives.

What you'll do

• Provide technical leadership and stewardship for the development, coordination, and advancement of Grid Modernization

initiatives across BC Hydro's modernization portfolio, including Distribution Automation (DA), Battery Energy Storage
Systems (BESS), Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Virtual Power Plants (VPP), grid visibility technologies, climate
resilience initiatives, and future modernization opportunities.

• Lead development of modernization business cases, investment analyses, implementation plans, and recommendations

that support modernization priorities and strategic initiatives.

• Develop and maintain deployment plans, program roadmaps, implementation strategies, and recommendations that

integrate technical, operational, asset-management, regulatory, and business considerations.

• Lead assessment and continuous improvement of current-state and future-state business processes, governance

structures, stakeholder interfaces, operating models, and organizational accountabilities.

• Develop recommendations that improve modernization governance, decision-making processes, coordination,

accountability, organizational effectiveness, and modernization outcomes.

• Develop and maintain an integrated view of modernization initiatives across the portfolio, including priorities, risks,

dependencies, implementation status, portfolio performance, benefits realization, and emerging opportunities.

• Gather and synthesize information from stakeholders across Transmission and Distribution Planning, Sustainment,

Engineering, System and Field Operations, Telecommunications, Technology, Finance, and Project Delivery.

• Build alignment among business units with differing priorities, operational requirements, funding responsibilities, and

organizational objectives.

• Lead and facilitate cross-functional workshops, working groups, assessments, and discussions that support modernization

What you bring

• A recognized Electrical Engineering degree recognized by EGBC and/or Canadian Universities. Consideration may be

given to other recognized and accredited degrees (such as Integrated Engineering, Mechatronic Systems Engineering,
Engineering in Smart Grid Systems and Technologies, etc.) with a demonstrable focus in Electrical Engineering in Power
Systems applications and utility environment.

• Registered, or eligible for immediate registration, as a Professional Engineer with Engineers and Geoscientists of BC

(EGBC).

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive electrical engineering experience focused in the areas of planning, engineering,

transmission/substation/distribution smart grid applications, electric vehicle charging, design of power systems or system
analysis within an electric utility. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in two or more of these areas.

**Technical Leadership, Business Acumen, Relationships**

• Think forward by understanding utility best practices, emerging technologies, industry developments, and regulatory

trends that may impact BC Hydro. Identify opportunities, risks, capability gaps, and future requirements, and translate
insights into recommendations that support modernization initiatives and long-term portfolio development.

• Provide technical leadership and stewardship across complex modernization initiatives involving multiple business units

and stakeholder groups.

• Strong understanding of utility modernization technologies and practices, including Distribution Automation (DA), Battery

Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Virtual Power Plants (VPP), grid visibility
technologies, operational technologies, and emerging industry trends.

• Knowledge of utility systems and platforms such as GIS, SCADA, ADMS, OMS, DERMS, asset management systems,

telecommunications systems, and enterprise business applications.

• Ability to think conceptually and strategically, integrating technical, operational, asset-management, regulatory, and

business considerations to support effective decision-making.

• Ability to assess and improve current-state and future-state business processes, governance structures, stakeholder

interfaces, operating models, and organizational accountabilities.

• Ability to analyze and resolve complex technical and organizational challenges while balancing competing priorities and

perspectives.

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills, including the ability to

What we offer

• A comprehensive benefits package
• A minimum of 15 paid vacation days
• A lifetime pension
• Flexible work model, depending on your role type
• Training and development courses

For more information on the benefits we offer, visit bchydro.com/benefits.

What else you should know

• This posting is for a Full Time Regular position.

• Occasional travel within BC, including remote locations and sometimes outside the province/country, may be required

• Part of the interview process may include a written assignment, details to be discussed in the recruitment process.

• A condition of employment for this job is that you maintain your Class 5 Driver's License: In good standing.

• A condition of employment for this job is that you maintain good standing with Engineers & GeoScientists BC (EGBC).

• Please be advised that this role has been assessed as safety sensitive and pre-qualification alcohol and drug testing will

be required as a pre-condition to employment.

Don't forget to update your Candidate Profile with your current resume and copies of your certifications. If applicable,
include your Trades Qualification. This will ensure we have all the necessary information to assess your application without
any delays.

Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V3N 4X8

Date Posted: 2026-08-14 Closing Date: 2026-09-18

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