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    Rotating Machines Commissioning Engineer - Toronto, Canada - Kinectrics

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    Employment Type: Permanent
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    Rotating Machines Commissioning Engineer

    Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That's why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with Canada's expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren't looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.

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    The Opportunity

    Position: Rotating Machines Commissioning Engineer

    Employment Type: Permanent

    Employment Level: Intermediate

    Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON

    Department: Distribution & Asset Management

    Reports to: Business Area Director, Distribution & Asset Management

    Hours per week: 37.5

    Number Required: 1

    What We Offer

    At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver's seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.

  • Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
  • Growth: To keep pace with Canada's expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
  • Innovation : Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
  • Diversity : The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
  • Competitive Compensation : We offer a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America.
  • If you want to work for a purpose-driven company where you'll see the real impact of your work, apply today.

    Supporting our Rotating Machines Service Line, your primary focus will be on execution of generator commissioning projects along with technical support personnel while ensuring a high level of customer service. In this position you will also be responsible for supporting business development, managing client relationships, and for delivering the annual revenue and income budget for US market.

    Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

  • You will bring to this position a reputation as an industry expert in generator commissioning and technical consulting within Canada and the USA. Critical skills include an Electrical (or potentially Mechanical) Engineering degree as well as demonstrated project management and leadership skills.
  • Manage relationships with existing and new clients to bring in orders which meet or exceed targets. Leverage your existing relationships within the industry – competitors, owners, manufacturers as well as industry organizations such as the IEEE, IEC and CIGRE.
  • Have a marketing background and help develop and implement brand strategy for the service line. Must work closely with Service Line Leader and sales to develop new leads and maintain existing client base.
  • Lead and execute work in the field with assigned staff and team members, achieving effective utilization of resources. Communicate well (i.e. fully & openly) with management and all co-workers. Requires good interpersonal skills for dealing with clients as well as staff and team members.
  • Assist in the negotiation and administration of contracts, including estimates of costs, schedule, and resources required. Carry out customers' work, prepare reports with recommendations based on results achieved.
  • Ensure that the business strategy is well developed and based on good market and competitor knowledge. The agreed strategy is to be clearly articulated and communicated
  • Customer Relationships and Orders

  • Identify and support service and market development priorities
  • Build relationships with current and potential customers
  • Provide feedback and client intelligence (i.e., quality, customer satisfaction, safety, technical problems and competitive intelligence)
  • Provide technical sales support through proposals and presentations
  • Have good written and oral communication skills
  • Technical Leadership

  • Remain abreast of technical advances in the field of generator commissioning and performance testing
  • Ensure Kinectrics provides a leading-edge service to the industry
  • Ensure that Kinectrics resources (assets and staff) anticipate the needs of the industry
  • Deliverability and Profitability

  • Ensure personal service line project commitments and related technical work are completed on time, within budget, and meet standards for quality and value
  • What You Need to Succeed

  • Requires knowledge of the theory, principles, and practices associated with electrical disciplines. This is normally acquired in a 4-year science or engineering university program, plus 2 or more years of concentrated study or practical experience in advanced subjects. Extensive knowledge in HV Rotating Machines, specifically dry and wet commissioning testing techniques of large generators. A graduate degree in Electrical (and possibly in Mechanical) Engineering is preferred.
  • Required experienced as commissioning engineer of hydro- and/or turbo generators. The experience includes a sound knowledge of large generator design, operation, protection, generator excitation and governor control systems, and troubleshooting.
  • Recognized technical expert in electrical engineering especially as it relates to generator commissioning and performance testing services with the ability to lead, develop and mentor a field team
  • Good knowledge of excitation and governor systems for commissioning and performance tests of generators is strongly desired
  • Strong familiarity and hands-on knowledge with generator testing according to IEEE Standards
  • Business development skills – opportunity nurturing, bid proposal development, customer service
  • Effective interpersonal and leadership skills with demonstrated sound judgment and decision-making ability (based on performance of various projects).
  • Demonstrated effective project management skills.
  • Effective selling and business development skills.
  • Effective technical writing skills – test procedures, test reports.
  • Recognized technical expert in electrical engineering especially as it relates to generator commissioning and performance testing services with the ability to lead, develop and mentor a field team
  • Good knowledge of excitation and governor systems for commissioning and performance tests of generators is strongly desired
  • Strong familiarity and hands-on knowledge with generator testing according to IEEE Standards
  • Business development skills – opportunity nurturing, bid proposal development, customer service
  • Effective interpersonal and leadership skills with demonstrated sound judgment and decision-making ability (based on performance of various projects).
  • Demonstrated effective project management skills.
  • Effective selling and business development skills.
  • Effective technical writing skills – test procedures, test reports.
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in generator commissioning and performance testing
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in project management in a multidisciplinary environment
  • Minimum 3 years' experience in business development
  • Kinectrics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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