Intermediate Electrical Technologist

As an Intermediate Electrical Technologist in Burnside’s growing Electrical practice, you’ll bring your hands-on electrical drafting and design experience to projects ranging from signalized intersections and roadway corridors to maintenance facilities and terminals. You’ll help deliver work across transportation, municipal infrastructure, site development, commercial, industrial, and institutional projects.

You’ll work closely with Electrical Engineers and multidisciplinary teams across multiple offices, turning engineering concepts into coordinated, high-quality drawing packages. This is a hands-on role where you’ll stay involved in CAD production, support design and construction activities, and help junior colleagues develop their skills.

What you'll be doing:

• Use AutoCAD and MicroStation to draft and model electrical layouts. You’ll also have opportunities to use Revit. Drawing deliverables include single-line diagrams, wiring schematics, signal phasing and conduit diagrams, panel schedules, cable routing, installation details, and bills of materials.
• Prepare traffic signal and intersection modification drawings, streetlighting plans, and photometric analyses. Support lighting design for roadways, pathways, transit yards, parking facilities, sports fields, parks, commercial sites, and industrial interior and exterior spaces.
• Assist with electrical servicing, low-voltage power distribution, and utility coordination for traffic signal controllers, lighting networks, transportation corridors, and commercial and industrial facilities. Coordinate with Local Distribution Companies (LDCs), including Hydro One, Elexicon, Alectra, Toronto Hydro, and other regional utilities.
• Prepare permit-ready, tender-ready, and construction-ready drawing packages from engineering sketches, markups, redlines, and design calculations. Prepare supporting schedules, specifications, cost estimates, and tender documents. Assist engineers with technical reports, design briefs, permit applications, and utility connection submissions.
• Support Engineers in coordinating drawing production and cross-office workflows. Help resolve conflicts with civil, roadway, architectural, structural, mechanical, and utility designs, and participate in quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) reviews.
• Review designs against applicable provincial and municipal standards, building codes, client and agency requirements, and utility connection criteria. Apply relevant guidance, including IES RP-8, OTM Book 12, the Ontario Building Code (OBC), the Ontario Electrical Safety Code (OESC), NFPA guidelines, and IEEE standards.
• Help select and detail equipment such as traffic signal controllers, service panels, luminaires, switchgear, motor control centres, transformers, standby generators, and lighting controls. Review manufacturer information to confirm dimensions, footings, equipment clearances, and installation feasibility.
• Take part in site visits, field investigations, condition assessments, site audits, and preliminary engineering evaluations. Coordinate with contractors, clients, agencies, and municipalities, and support construction administration and commissioning.
• Review contractor Requests for Information (RFIs), shop drawings, and equipment submittals, and draft responses. Conduct periodic site reviews to check construction progress, quality, and compliance with drawings, specifications, and applicable codes.
• Draft electrical site instructions, contemplated change notices (CCNs), and change orders. Review pricing, quotations, and cost breakdowns for proposed changes, and prepare and issue as-built and record drawing revisions from contractor markups and field review records.
• Mentor and support junior technologists, technicians, engineers, and CAD drafters with onboarding, drawing standards, layering conventions, detailing practices, and CAD/BIM workflows.
• Support Engineers with proposals by preparing technical methodologies, scopes of work, deliverable lists, and estimated hours. Join senior team members at client meetings and site visits to understand project needs and identify opportunities for other Burnside disciplines.

What you'll bring:

• A Certified Engineering Technologist (C.E.T.) or C.Tech. designation. This is a mandatory requirement.
• A diploma or degree in Electrical Engineering Technology.
• 3 to 6+ years of hands-on electrical drafting and design experience in streetlighting, transportation, municipal infrastructure, industrial, commercial, or private-sector facility projects. Experience in an engineering consulting firm is preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD and MicroStation, with the ability to turn engineering sketches, markups, and concepts into complete drawing sets.
• Experience with IES RP-8 roadway and streetlighting standards, municipal traffic signal standards, and commercial and industrial illumination criteria.
• Familiarity with Ontario municipal standards, the OBC, the OESC, and utility connection requirements, along with experience coordinating servicing and grid connections with LDCs.
• Hands-on experience with AGi32, Visual, or similar lighting and electrical analysis software.
• Practical drafting and design experience with low-voltage power distribution, service disconnects, traffic controller cabinets, backup generators, transfer switches, UPS systems, and facility auxiliary services.
• Attention to detail, a hands-on approach to drawing production, and the ability to coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and support junior colleagues.

Assets—not requirements:

• Working experience drafting and modeling in Revit.
• A valid 309A Construction & Maintenance Electrician license or Journeyperson trade certification—a strong asset.

Salary Range: $77,000 - $92,000

The final compensation offered will be based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and market conditions.

Position Type: New Position

Why Choose Burnside?

Are you interested in working for an employer with a 5-decade track record of building a great reputation both internally with their staff and externally with their clients? The Burnside team is a supportive group of colleagues that work together to provide value and service to our clients, while extending care to each other. We know that our employees are our greatest asset, and thus we strive to provide a positive work/life balance.

We offer:

• A collaborative culture where friendship, honesty and respect are part of our core values and practices
• Flexible working hours, including hybrid working opportunities
• A competitive compensation and benefits package
• RRSP company matching plan
• Career growth and professional development opportunities
• Potential for performance-driven bonusing
• Active social committees
• A welcoming, positive, and inclusive work environment

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity in the workplace and we welcome resumes from all qualified candidates. Burnside will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the entire recruitment, assessment, and selection process, as required. If you are a person with a disability and require an accommodation during these processes, please contact our Human Resources department.

Company Profile – More about us:

Founded in 1970, R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited is a growing values-driven Canadian employee-owned, led and operated Civil and Environmental Engineering Consulting Firm with over 450 professional, technical and support staff. Our consistent commitment towards investing in technology advancements and training, in addition to encouraging and promoting professional development, has enabled our firm to meet our ongoing and stated goal of continual improvement.

We actively seek to develop relationships with a broad and diversified client base in the Public, Private and Indigenous sectors. We work on a variety of projects throughout Canada, with 12 office locations (11 in Ontario and one in Manitoba).

Burnside has expertise in many technical disciplines beyond our core civil engineering focus including air and noise, asset management, bridges & culverts, building sciences, environmental planning and ecology, GIS, hydrogeology, land development, landscape architecture, municipal engineering, municipal drainage, solid waste, stormwater management, structures, traffic, transportation planning and design, water and wastewater and well drilling & diagnostics.