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Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Work with a team to complete detailed designs for overhead and underground distribution projects, including line rebuilds, relocations and extensions.- Coordinate work with project team members and clients for various projects throughout Alberta.- Collect and review pertinent background information to inform design.- Create alignment plans, survey plans, easement plans and other preliminary deliverables for review.- Compile specifications and issue requests for third party services including survey, geotechnical review, grounding studies, brushing requests, constructability reviews, environmental assessments, and easement applications.- Perform detailed line design calculations and modelling of various structures.- Develop an in-depth understanding of client standards, practices, and they pertain to the design of distribution projects.- Draft, or oversee drafting, of required construction prints per client requirements.- Provide exceptional customer service in the form of prompt responses, courteous discourse, honest interaction, and proactive communication.- Coordinate designs with clients, landowners, approving bodies, and other project stakeholders.- Aid the Design Lead and/or Project Leadership in establishing firm timelines and budgets.- Support Construction with real time design changes or adjustments required due to change in conditions.- Perform technical reviews of as-built data to ensure compliance to client standards and practices.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Coordinate with the Forbes Bros. Group internal departments for documentation required for tender submission.- Prepare and format tender submission documents.- Maintain database of submitted tenders.- Monitor tender inboxes and client sites for Forbes Bros. Ltd.

Edmonton, Canada Area

- On the engineering and sales teams, primarily responsible for the creation of technical solutions through engineering design work.- Performed design and cost analysis for newly developed products in both solid-cast urethane and foam urethane variants.- Responsible for handling requests for quote to subcontractors and coordinating subcontractor schedules into bid packages.- Developed a deep understanding of pipeline construction, and appropriate pigging processes to suit customer requirements.- Gained shop floor experience in the production of solid-cast and foam polyurethane pipeline pigs while adhering to strict safety protocols.

- Designed electrical heat tracing circuits for process temperature management and freeze protection in industrial piping applications.- Utilized 3D modelling software to calculate and analyze heat loss and determine suitable heating cable design solutions.- Read piping and instrumentation diagrams to determine plant flows and processes and establish the most appropriate design.- Created electrical heat trace isometric drawings of final designs using AutoCAD.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

International Summer School: "On The Cutting Edge Of Sustainable Energy Supply," Sustainable Energy

One month crash course in sustainable energy technology and economics. Studied topics such as: biogas, cogeneration plants, clean.