The Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hydro supports Operations and Capital Projects Teams with specialist advice for maintenance and new component design. They own Technical Standards and participate in risk evaluation, quality assurance, condition assessment, technical planning, and project development. This position will also oversee internal documents and external consultant work, mentor technical staff, and facilitate team development with the Engineering Coordinator. They may also support fleet-wide engineering processes. The role involves working with Hydro Plant mechanical components like turbines, generators, governors, penstocks, pressure vessels, water control gates, hoists, and supporting equipment.
This full-time, salaried position offers a hybrid work schedule and has the flexibility to be based out of our Ghost Plant in Canmore, Alberta; Seebe Plant in the Bow Valley region of Alberta; or Brazeau Plant in Drayton Valley, Alberta.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Provide day-to-day engineering support to operations, maintenance, and forced outages to ensure safe and compliant facility operation
- Resolve non-routine technical issues for operating facilities
- Identify, document, update, and communicate equipment risks and mitigations
- Contribute detailed technical risk mitigations for capital processes, including conceptual engineering work scopes and risk assessments
- Provide input into condition and risk assessments as required
- Establish a collaborative work environment with team, peers, stakeholders, and support groups
- Develop and maintain industry relationships to bring innovations and best practices to the Plant Teams
- Complete technical due diligence for M&A projects in line with standards
- Escalate technical issues and risks to the Engineering Coordinator and recommend immediate actions, inspections, or testing
- Implement innovative solutions to improve processes and equipment performance/reliability
- Evaluate and bring industry best practices and new technology to the business
- Provide emergency support for forced outages
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU
- Mechanical Engineering degree from a recognized post-secondary institution and registered as a Professional Engineer in good standing with APEGA, or other provincial Engineering Regulatory Association and qualifies for inter-provincial mobility
- Minimum 15 years of experience in maintenance and design in Hydro Plants
- Strong commitment to safety
- Experience in industrial field operations technology
- Provide strategic leadership to more than one team from a technical perspective
- Broad and comprehensive knowledge in leading-edge theories, techniques and technologies within their discipline
- Self-motivated and works with minimal supervision while consistently taking initiative
- Strives for continuous improvement to deliver outcomes in the most efficient and effective manner
- Committed to upholding and operating within all applicable standards, rules and regulations.
- Available to provide technical advice during non-core hours to address operational hours
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- This is a safety sensitive position which will require successful completion of pre-employment testing as a condition of employment
- Ability to travel 30% to facilities
TransAlta Corporation
110 Twelfth Ave SW
Calgary
Alberta Canada
www.transalta.com
