Engineering Clerk

About the role

AltaLink, which delivers electricity across Alberta, is hiring a full-time permanent Engineering Clerk in Calgary. Reporting to the Manager, Project Services & Asset Information, the clerk provides technical administrative support to project engineering, asset data, document control and compliance teams, helping manage and deliver projects.

Key responsibilities

• Research AltaLink's asset data and compliance requirements for substations, P&C, SCADA, telecommunications and transmission lines.
• Complete technical forms and checklists for project engineering teams.
• Help engineers develop and verify concurrent engineering agreements and coordinate with engineers, project managers and document controllers.
• Support master data clerks in creating functional location structures and equipment records, and help meet inventory control, master characteristics list and Alberta Reliability Standards compliance requirements.
• Collect equipment information from project engineering teams and business partners, and compile data for project reporting.
• Work with document controllers and draftspersons to request drawing numbers and Bentley ProjectWise placeholders, and support return data collection.
• Assist with engineering product administration, including audit deliverables, quality control and governance.
• Verify protection setting requests, create cost and schedule estimates, and create new protection setting records in Enoserv Powerbase.
• Coordinate engineering services contractors, track documents and costs, and support material ordering with the procurement team.
• Participate in developing compliance processes and documents.

Required profile

• Minimum of five years of related experience; high school diploma or equivalent.
• Post-secondary course in basic electrical theory or equivalent.
• Understanding of electric transmission system operations and maintenance, and experience in a project engineering environment.
• Proven ability to handle the listed responsibilities.

Required skills

• Advanced Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Proficiency in SharePoint and SAP, or equivalent software and databases.
• Asset of: Bentley ProjectWise, MicroStation and Enoserv Powerbase; auditing and compliance, AESO ARS and ISO rules; process development.
• Strong organization, planning and time management, and ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision.

Applications: external candidates apply through AltaLink's online application portal; internal employees submit their resume internally through the AltaLink referral link. Internal applicants may be contacted by their manager during selection, and some positions may require assessments, criminal record checks, additional training, medical assessments, a drivers' abstract and drug tests.