Stantec’s vision is to be the world’s leading integrated design practice working on large, complex, transformational projects. These projects are executed collaboratively by leveraging the collective talent within our global design practice on creativity, innovative solutions, and design capability.

The Minneapolis based group at Stantec is consistently working on a wide variety of exciting industrial food and beverage, process, chemical, agricultural, and other manufacturing projects. From retrofit/upgrade projects to brownfield additions, to complete greenfield facility installations, we partner with clients through all phases of the project lifecycle to deliver high quality designs and outcomes.

Your Opportunity

As an Electrical & Controls Engineer, you will be expected to deliver task-based deliverables assigned from project leads, with minimal supervision once trained on each task type. You would be expected to be able to leverage your foundational electrical engineering knowledge to absorb and contextualize new information and hence learn new skills when taught and progressively gain competence over time. You will participate in the evaluation, recommendation, and specification for engineered systems or products for industrial projects, ultimately supporting the team effort to develop electrical contractor installation package drawings and documents. You will perform a variety of tasks which may include calculations, deliverable preparation, client meetings, and field support for information gathering start-up and commissioning.

If you can see yourself working at a vibrant company that values innovative thinking, technical excellence, passion, and a strong commitment to partnership then Stantec may be the place for you.

Reporting Relationships

This role will report internally to the electrical group manager but will have other “soft” lines of reporting to the project managers and project lead engineers for projects that you are working on.

Your Key Responsibilities

Evaluate, select, specify, and engineer all electrical engineered systems or products for a project, 480V distribution and lower. This would generally include MCCs and MCC buckets, power distribution panelboards, wires and cables, cable trays and wire baskets, etc.
Design and/or give input to plant wide control systems that include PLC’s, HMI’s, remote I/O racks, MCC’s, VFD’s, and all associated networking requirements in varying topologies.
Engage in the development of a design through PDF (Bluebeam) sketches, diagrams, and other visual formats.
Utilize BIM technologies in development of 3D models of building’s electrical systems and provides PDF markups for CAD designers.
Prepare and revise documentation in various electrical phases including but not limited to single line diagrams, panelboard schedules, plan/location drawings, electrical equipment lists, cable schedules, area classification, network architecture, and P&IDs.
Cross-check designs against vendor documentation including PLC, I/O and motor control panel schematics.
Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own work to deliver a quality product.
Work on multiple projects, demonstrating effective time management.
Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and basic cost estimating.
Participate in constructability reviews.
Assist in the development of new standards and specifications for the electrical group.
Review UL508A panel drawing sets and provide comment, and support modifications/updates to UL508A compliant panels designs (PDF redlines)

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

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