Senior Electrical Technician (Electric Vehicles)

Powertech Labs Inc is a cleantech company with the mission of being a trusted innovation partner providing solutions, specialised testing, and technical expertise for a safe and sustainable global energy future. Powertech has a global reputation for delivering transformative solutions in both the electric power industry as well as the transport sector. A clean future will be driven by electric and hydrogen power, and we will help get there. 

We are always guided by our values as a global clean-technology and engineering company: 

• Safety: This top everything. We do our work safely or we do not do it at all.
• Challenges: We ready ourselves for the hardest challenges - through attaining accreditations, developing industry-leading innovative products & services, investing in our labs, hiring great people, and making them better.
• Diverse Teams: We are strongest together and capitalize on our varied attributes - together we are more than the sum of parts.
• Our Customers: Customers fuel this company and we constantly work with them to earn and retain their trust and loyalty. We expect that our customers hold us accountable to our commitments.
• Excellence: Striving for excellence, acting with integrity, and having the highest standards in quality are core to what we do.

Powertech has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Senior Electrical Technician within its Asset Management Solutions division. We offer multi-disciplinary engineering support through technology evaluation for suitability, material selection and specification, pre-commissioning support and quality assurance, developing inspection or repair strategies, condition assessment for extending life, or failure analysis at end of life. Within the division, the EV Infrastructure team offers their expertise in designing and executing test programs to thoroughly evaluate functionality and fitness for purpose of new technologies before launching broadscale deployment or customer incentive programs. The department also plays an integral role in helping our parent company, BC Hydro, achieve their deployment targets for public charging.

Duties:

• Acts as work leader, provides technical direction to and performs some of the same functions as the Electrical Technician job.
• Assists in writing technical reports and test procedures under the project leadership of an engineer or technologist.
• Assists in the development of new and non-standard test procedures under the project leadership of an engineer or technologist.
• Designs and builds custom testing and measurement equipment under the project leadership of an engineer or technologist.
• Performs repairs and maintenance on test equipment that are beyond the routine scope of the Electrical Technician job.
• Acts as a project leader on internal maintenance and development projects.
• Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties which do not affect the rating of the job.

Qualifications:

• Certificate of Technology from an Institute of Technology in Electronics (power/control option), Electrical, Power, Telecommunications, Instrumentation or Automation disciplines with preference given to the discipline directly relating to the position or lab.
• Additional training in the development, setup and operation of high-power electrical testing equipment required.
• Three (3) years of related experience working in a lab setting up and performing tests on a variety of electrical power equipment and components.

In addition, the following skillset are desired:

• Good working knowledge of the analysis and testing procedures for a variety of electrical power equipment.
• Good working knowledge on how to apply failure analysis testing to a variety of electrical power equipment.
• Good knowledge of the operation, manufacturing processes, machining and related construction techniques for electric power equipment.
• Good working knowledge of how to calibrate, maintain and repair related high power testing instrumentation and equipment and apply accepted testing standards.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of how to interpret and adapt high power mechanical laboratory testing procedures.
• Good working knowledge of high voltage/high power testing and analysis procedures, testing standards and quality assurance principles.
• Ability to modify existing test methods to perform unique tests or achieve different results.
• Good knowledge of circuit analysis.
• Ability to demonstrate and train technical staff of specific testing techniques.
• Excellent knowledge of related testing standards and procedures.
• Good technical report writing skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Good organizational and planning skills.
• Ability to operate a forklift, manlift and large platform.
• Ability to operate photographic and video equipment.
• Good knowledge of related safety and WHMIS regulations.
• Basic knowledge of MS Office applications.

Job status: Full time temporary - 6 months less a day
Job location: Surrey - in office
Job grade: MoveUp, group 9 
Salary Range: $70K - $76K

Please be advised that this role has been assessed as safety sensitive and pre-qualification alcohol and drug testing will be required as a pre-condition to employment. 

Powertech Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We include everyone. We welcome applications from anyone, including members of visible minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. We are also happy to provide reasonable accommodations throughout the selection process and while working at Powertech Labs.

Maintaining customer-confidence and our reputation is key: To this end, all our campus and laboratories are accredited to ISO9001 (quality), ISO14001 (environment stewardship) and ISO45001 (safety) and IEC/ISO 17025 for over 100 standards. To complement the focus on accreditation, we encourage our experts to drive global standards and provide development opportunities for all staff to grow in their role and to advance in their careers. 

Working at Powertech is not a job but a career. If you want to be a part of a growing clean technology company that is impactful and working towards a common goal of accelerating the world towards a net zero carbon future, come and join our team.