The Opportunity

Company, Department: Emera Newfoundland & Labrador, Engineering

Location: Primary Position location Halifax, Nova Scotia OR St John's, Newfoundland & Labrador

Closing Date: May 5, 2025

Emera Newfoundland & Labrador (ENL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Emera Inc. (EMA- TXS), is responsible for operating and maintaining the 500-megawatt HVdc Maritime Link Project. The Maritime Link transmits energy between the island of Newfoundland to Nova Scotia. With office locations in both provinces, ENL is committed to ensuring that the Maritime Link transmits clean, renewable energy for Nova Scotia. The Maritime Link primarily consists of two switchyards, two HVdc converter stations and adjoining substations, 400km of overhead transmission lines, two transition compounds, two grounding sites and two 170km submarine cables.
ENL's greatest source of energy is our people. In a culture focused on safety and our customers, we're committed to providing exceptional service to our customers and rewarding jobs to our employees. We're hiring solution-minded people excited to help us grow into the future.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering, the Engineer, Transmission Assets will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and performance of key energy infrastructure. The successful candidate joins us at a time where inspection and maintenance strategies for the Maritime Link are evolving. You will have the opportunity to drive efficiencies and improvements, making a mark across our assets including transmission lines, submarine cables and HVDC converter stations.

Key elements of this role include:

• Accountability for the overhead transmission line inspection, maintenance, and vegetation management program strategy execution
• Support submarine cable and HVDC converter station related activities, including periodic inspections, planned and unplanned outages
• Participate in remote engineer on-call support including; troubleshooting, root cause analysis, related reports, communicating lessons learned as required
• Champion ENL's Capital Program including capital applications, progress tracking, and forecasting, as well as project manage individual operations and capital initiatives from initiation to implementation
• Periodic updates of appropriate asset maintenance plans to ensure alignment with actual practice and drive evolution of maintenance methodologies
• Supervise employees and/or contractors working on assigned projects and tasks as required
• Keep up to date with industry development, standards, regulations, and codes
• Fully participate and engage in ENL's safety and environment programs and support ongoing initiatives such as Strategic Asset Management

What skills will make you successful?

As the ideal candidate you recognize yourself in most of the following competencies, and possess or are working towards the desired skills and experience listed below:

• You hold a bachelor's degree in engineering with a minimum of 5 years experience in a related field, and are a registered member (P. Eng.) or are eligible for membership with Engineers Nova Scotia and The Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador
• Engineering experience can come from a variety of practice backgrounds including Mechanical, Electrical or Civil with previous electric utility experience being considered an asset
• You are a self-starter with excellent organizational and analytical skills who can function effectively in a team environment
• Strong communication skills and a commitment to personal development are required

• You must have a valid Driver's License, and a willingness to provide after-hours consultation and emergency power restoration work
• Regular travel between Maritime Link Facilities and offices

- Flexibility: Hybrid work model with 2 flexible remote workdays.

- Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.

- Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.

- Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching and; volunteer programs, various committees and employee resource groups, and scholarships for children of employees.

- Competitive Compensation: Short-term incentive plan and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

As one of Atlantic Canada's largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.

The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values. The purpose of our recruitment policy is to provide a consistent framework to support fair and equitable attraction, hiring, and retention of the best talent for vacant positions. We are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants and is guided by our company values.