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One of our clients, a major oil and gas company has tasked us with identifying a highly experienced Principal Electrical Designer for an open-ended contract position based in Calgary, Alberta, working on a 5/40 schedule. The successful candidate will provide senior-level design leadership and deep technical expertise across complex, multidisciplinary projects, ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality electrical design packages throughout the full lifecycle of major engineering initiatives. This role involves supporting the client’s operations from Calgary while collaborating closely with internal teams, vendors, and external stakeholders. The Principal Electrical Designer will play a key part in driving design excellence, mentoring junior designers, and ensuring all electrical deliverables meet the client’s standards, applicable codes, and project expectations.
Job Responsibility
Lead and deliver high-quality electrical design services that meet all client and regulatory requirements, ensuring delivery within schedule and budget
Accountable for the development, accuracy, coordination, and quality of electrical design deliverables across concept, FEED, detailed design, and construction support phases
Provide hands-on technical direction to electrical designers and drafting teams, including work planning, task delegation, and detailed design reviews
Participate in project planning, progress reporting, and compliance with required checking and quality assurance procedures
Ensure project scope is clearly understood, with any changes controlled through appropriate change management processes
Support procurement activities through the review of electrical equipment requisitions, technical bid evaluations, purchase orders, and vendor documentation
Assist construction and commissioning teams through the resolution of site and vendor queries
Identify and mitigate discrepancies between internal design standards and client requirements
Provide technical input to constructability, maintainability, and operability reviews
Coordinate closely with multidisciplinary engineering disciplines to ensure fully integrated electrical designs
Communicate effectively with clients, vendors, engineering partners, and field personnel
Identify technical risks and issues, propose practical solutions, and escalate where appropriate
Mentor junior designers and engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing across the electrical design team
Requirements
Accredited Engineering Technology, Design, or related technical qualification (degree or diploma preferred)
Extensive experience in senior-level electrical design roles on large, multidisciplinary projects
Proven ability to interpret, develop, and review complex electrical drawings and technical documentation
Strong communication, problem-solving, and coordination skills
Extensive experience with electrical design for complex industrial projects (energy, mining, chemicals, power, or large-scale infrastructure)
Extensive experience with electrical design systems, workflows, and document management tools (e.g., SAP, KMS, or similar)
Extensive experience with workshare models, scope development, and delegating design tasks across internal and external teams
Extensive experience with participation in safety and operability reviews (e.g., HAZOP/LOPA) where electrical systems interface with process safety
Strong working knowledge of core electrical deliverables, including single-line diagrams and schematics, electrical room and equipment layouts, cable schedules, routing, and tray/conduit plans, power distribution and load lists, MCC layouts and schematics, grounding and bonding drawings, lighting and small power layouts, hazardous area and area classification drawings, bills of material, material requisitions, and work packages
Working knowledge of electrical system design, including low and medium voltage distribution, motor control and VFDs, industrial and outdoor lighting systems, grounding, bonding, and lightning protection, hazardous area design and relevant codes/standards