Distribution Engineer

Job Title: Distribution Engineer

Job Description

The Distribution Engineer provides technical leadership and engineering oversight for electrical distribution projects, combining hands-on design work with review, authentication, and project delivery responsibilities. This role ensures the technical accuracy, quality, constructability, and timely handover of distribution designs, calculations, estimates, and engineering deliverables. The Distribution Engineer works closely with Distribution Designers and Engineers, resolving design and field-level technical issues, supporting proposals and estimating, and collaborating with customers, utilities, consultants, project management, procurement, and construction teams. This is a technical position that blends advanced distribution engineering with mentorship, design authentication, estimating, project planning, and direct involvement across the full project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and complete overhead and underground electrical distribution engineering designs, including calculations, drawings, estimates, and related technical deliverables.
• Prepare accurate estimates for materials, labour, and equipment using contract bids, quotations, schematic drawings, scopes of work, and specifications.
• Analyze customer plans and utility documentation to develop distribution proposals, preliminary designs, estimates, and project schedules.
• Perform engineering calculations such as pole-line analysis and pulling-tension calculations to support safe and constructible designs.
• Conduct detailed technical reviews to verify design accuracy, quality, constructability, and compliance with applicable codes, standards, and project requirements.
• Authenticate personal engineering work packages and, where appropriate, engineering work completed by other team members.
• Compile comprehensive project bills of materials based on drawings, specifications, codes, and standards for submission to procurement.
• Obtain required permits, agreements, and design approvals, including line assignments, crossing and proximity agreements, environmental approvals, and utility design approvals.
• Collaborate with utilities, design consultants, customers, and internal project teams throughout the design and project delivery process.
• Facilitate or participate in site meetings, project handoffs, project kick-offs, design reviews, and other project-related meetings to support successful execution.
• Monitor project budgets, costs, and scope, and support change-control processes and preparation of change orders when required.
• Resolve design-related and field-level technical issues in collaboration with Project Management to protect project schedules and minimize construction delays.
• Provide technical expertise, engineering guidance, coaching, training, and mentorship to members of the distribution design group.
• Contribute to bid proposals, material take-offs, cost estimates, and project planning for new and existing customer opportunities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the Distribution Engineering team, including enhancements to standards, processes, and tools.
• Maintain strong working relationships with customers, consultants, utilities, and design approvers to support repeat business and successful project outcomes.

Essential Skills

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or a Technical Diploma in Engineering Technology.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Licensee Engineering (P.L.Eng.) with APEGA.
• 8+ years of experience working in an electrical engineering environment.
• Extensive experience with overhead and underground electrical distribution design and cost estimating for distribution, commercial, or industrial projects.
• At least 3+ years of experience as a P.Eng., with consideration for equivalent experience for P.L.Eng. candidates as appropriate.
• Proven ability to create and authenticate engineering drawings and design information in accordance with established standards and procedures.
• Strong knowledge of applicable electrical codes, standards, specifications, design practices, and construction requirements for power distribution.
• Experience developing project estimates from drawings, specifications, and scopes of work.
• Ability to manage multiple proposals, estimates, and engineering designs concurrently while meeting deadlines and quality expectations.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical and construction plans provided by customers and consultants.
• Strong technical expertise in distribution design, electrical design, power distribution, and utility design.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Proficiency with engineering and design software such as BlueBeam, PLS-CADD, MicroStation, and AutoCAD.
• Experience working closely with utilities, consultants, and construction teams on distribution projects.
• Demonstrated ability to support project planning, scheduling, and coordination activities.
• Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to provide mentorship and training to less experienced designers and engineers.
• A continuous improvement mindset with an interest in enhancing engineering processes, standards, and tools.

Work Environment

This position is based in a modern office located in the Quarry Park area and follows a hybrid work model that combines in-office and remote work. The role involves frequent collaboration with project management, procurement, construction teams, utilities, and external consultants, as well as participation in site meetings and design reviews. Work is primarily computer-based, using tools such as BlueBeam, PLS-CADD, MicroStation, and AutoCAD to produce and review technical deliverables. The environment supports a technical role with opportunities for leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional interaction throughout the project lifecycle.

This is a Permanent position based out of Calgary, AB.

The pay range for this position is $130000.00 - $145000.00/yr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

This is a Permanent position based out of Calgary, AB.

This is a hybrid position in Calgary,AB.

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About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

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