Engineer III, Electronics

Job Title: Engineer III, Electronics

Location: North Vancouver, BC (Hybrid)
    
Estimated Duration: 12 months

Job Description
The Electronics Engineer will join the external transmission systems (ETS) team on new construction projects at our clients Shipyards. Under the direction of the Principle ETS Engineer at our clients Shipyards the Electronics Engineer participates in all phases of new construction design projects including: requirements decomposition, design, analysis, material specification and selection, engineering execution, and engineering close-out activities.

Duties/Accountabilities

• Provides engineering and design expertise in assigned areas of Electronics by preparing design packages to ensure contract design requirements are met.
• Supports the Manager, Electronics Engineering by providing mentorship and guidance to junior engineers.
• Develops and/or reviews design documents for fisheries, icebreaking, and naval replenishment vessels to achieve customer, Classification Society and regulatory approval.
• Create and maintain detailed system documentation, including cable diagrams, termination or wiring diagrams, schematics, test plans, and installation instructions.
• Develops material specifications and bills of material in accordance with our clients material strategies and customer requirements.
• Designs testing approaches and supervises its implementation
• Provide technical direction to suppliers and subcontractors related to the Electronics Systems design to achieve contract, cost and schedule performance.

Education and Experience

• Degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• Registered engineer (P.Eng.)
• 5 or more years of experience in a system engineering environment, ideally in the defence or shipbuilding industry.
• Works independently without requiring oversight from more experienced team members.
• Contributes to analysis of information, design of engineering solutions, drafting of engineering standards and specs
• Coordinates work of others and inspects quality of engineering
• Experience working with a diverse integrated project team is considered an asset.
• Experience with system integration and testing, including FAT and commissioning.
• Strong communication and interpersonal competencies
• Able to obtain a Canadian Reliability security clearance.

Skills, Knowledge and Required Competencies

• Analyze, define, and maintain customer, system and regulatory requirements in a system engineering life cycle tool for one or many communications networks.
• Based on requirements, develop system designs which also satisfy various build, cost, schedule, logistics and other non-technical constraints.
• Analyze system design from various perspectives, such as reliability, security, buildability, maintainability, and more.
• Using system engineering processes verify and validate system designs (e.g. via documentation, testing, analysis, etc.).
• Create and maintain technical documentation and strict configuration control.
• Specify and maintain hardware lists to support system design, taking care of various related issues, such as End-of-Life replacement, installation, qualification, etc.
• Support and develop technical interfaces to other groups within the company.
• Prepare and execute design reviews in accordance with a system engineering process.
• Above average analytical skills to gather and analyze/synthesize data, confirming its accuracy and adequacy as an integral part of the collective analysis/synthesis process.
• Strong technical writing skills including the ability to produce and present clear, detailed written technical specifications, procedures, and reports.
• Solid understanding of CADMATIC or AutoCAD software, document management systems and databases.
• Good organizational skills.
• Committed to a high standard of safety and able to align with all safety laws and all the employer’s safety policies and rules.
• Exercise good judgments and make decisions in a manner consistent with the essential job functions.