Senior Lead Engineer (Electric Utility)

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (AQN), parent company of Liberty, is a diversified international generation, transmission, and distribution utility. AQN is committed to providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective energy and water solutions through our portfolio of utility investments to over one million customer connections, largely in the United States and Canada.

At Algonquin, our vision is to be the most trusted utility service provider in North America – a premium regulated utility, known for our customer focus, commitment to sustainability, and strong community partnerships. Our employees are at the heart of that vision. We believe that when people are empowered to learn, grow, and contribute their ideas, we can achieve remarkable results together.

We are building a culture that values integrity, inclusivity, and innovation. By joining Algonquin, you’ll be part of a team that is shaping the future of energy and water, while creating long-term value for our customers, communities, employees, and shareholders. Purpose

Liberty Utilities (CalPeco Electric) LLC has an opening for Senior Lead Engineer (Pay: $185,000-$277,000 | Bonus: 15-30%)

At Liberty, you’ll have the opportunity to work in a collaborative and innovative environment where your contributions directly impact our communities. We’re committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, growth, and continuous learning. We’re seeking a Senior Lead Engineer to provide cross-discipline technical leadership and perform hands-on engineering work within CalPeco across Grid Modernization, Line Design, Planning, Asset Management, Operations, Substation Design, System Protection, and Telecommunications. This is an individual contributor position with no direct reports. Assignments vary with business need and may include leading major programs, large projects, or standards development and implementation.

Accountabilities

• Develop, establish, and maintain CalPeco engineering standards, procedures, design criteria, and technical requirements that engineers, designers, operations and contractors are expected to follow, with the support of Engineering leadership.
• Approve technical approaches on assigned projects, resolve technical conflicts between disciplines, and lead resolution of high-consequence technical issues, including non-standard designs, major project risks, and system performance problems.
• Deliver assigned programs and projects, such as standards development and implementation, grid modernization and substation projects, within approved budgets. Own implementation, including scoping, planning, prioritization, and coordination.
• Set peer review and technical review expectations for engineering and operations work products, and review complex designs, studies, and analyses.
• Advise the Director and senior leadership on major capital programs, critical infrastructure decisions, complex system risks, regulatory impacts, technology strategy, and investment priorities.
• Develop technical and investment recommendations for long-range capital planning, asset renewal, modernization, and reliability improvement.
• Prepare and support written regulatory testimony, filings, and data request responses, and serve as a company witness when assigned. Exercise sound discretion and legal awareness when responding to regulatory data requests.
• Represent the company at the state and federal level, in industry forums, and in strategic partnerships.
• Evaluate and implement new technology solutions in areas such as grid modernization, digital substations, automation, and advanced protection schemes.
• Train, mentor, and coach engineers, and support succession planning for the engineering technical leadership pipeline.
• Occasional travel to utility facilities, project sites, substations, conferences, and industry meetings is required. Technical support during significant system events or emergencies outside normal business hours may be required.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from an ABET accredited engineering school with 20+ years of progressively responsible utility engineering experience.
• Active Professional Engineer (P.E.) license in California required, or the ability and willingness to obtain California P.E. within 6 months, if currently licensed in another state.
• Technical leadership experience across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrated expertise in electric utility design, planning, protection, operations, reliability, asset management, capital programs, regulatory requirements, and grid modernization.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare written regulatory testimony and serve as a company witness.
• Demonstrated ability to represent the company at the state and federal level.
• Must have the ability to express both technical and non-technical information to individuals or groups in an organized, accurate and clear manner.
• Strong executive advisory, technical governance, risk assessment, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Compensation

Pay will be determined based on several factors, including the candidate’s qualifications, breadth of experience, skills, education and training, against the responsibilities of the position.

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business and as an employee team.

As the successful candidate

Our Mission

We provide safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective and sustainable energy and water solutions. Our mission is how we create value as an organization - it is what drives us every day to fulfill our purpose.

Our Vision

We better the lives of our customers and communities. Our vision is what we see as possible. It's where we aspire to be, what we want to achieve and how we'll make an impact. It guides and keeps us on the right path as we work towards fulfilling our purposes.

Our Guiding Principles

• Customer Centric
• Integrity
• Entrepreneurial
• Teamwork
• Owner mindset
• Outcome focused
• Continuous learning

What we offer

Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy

401k Plan with matching

Share purchase/match plan

Leadership Development Program

Volunteer paid days off

Employee Assistance Program

Achievement fund

Free parking

Variety of Health & Wellness programs

Discount and Perks program

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not confident you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to investigate the opportunity further.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person's unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honour this commitment in their daily responsibilities.