Junior Advisor - Asset Analytics & Asset Management

Type of position: Régulier

About BBA:

Working for BBA means being part of a team of talented people who have the passion to succeed and the drive to excel in order to provide first-class service to clients.

Recognized for its extensive field experience and cutting-edge expertise, BBA has been delivering a comprehensive range of consulting engineering services for 40 years, from studies and design to commissioning and operational support. Our firm is supported by a network of offices across Canada to carry out mandates at the local, national and international levels.

BBA provides a stimulating and friendly working atmosphere. We focus on building teams with complementary talents and provide employees with a work environment conducive to developing their skills.

BBA is a Canada's Best Employer recipient from Kincentric and is part of the prestigious Platinum Club of the Best Managed Companies, which unites companies that have held onto their title for over six consecutive years. For BBA, making the list speaks to the rigour of our practices and our unique approach to employee and client relations.

Looking to build your career with us?

BBA is a national, employee-owned multi-disciplinary engineering and services firm with offices coast-to-coast, in the US and abroad. We have an established Power & Renewables business line which comprises of Power Advisory & Asset Management, Transmission & Distribution (T&D), Wind & Solar, Storage, Hydropower and Industrial Power groups. We wish to strengthen our position in the Power Advisory & Asset Management (PAAM) group and Power Markets segment across Canada. BBA has a new opportunity for two Junior Advisors in either our Calgary, Toronto or Concord office to support the delivery of Power Advisory & Asset Management services within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. This role will provide the successful candidate a wide range of challenging projects within the utility and power sector, along with exposure to mining and industrial sectors.

With us, you'll get the opportunity to...

• Assist in the delivery of asset analytics projects, including asset condition assessment, asset risk based frameworks, failure analysis and probability.
• Assist in the delivering of top-down and bottom-up load forecasting for power utilities.
• Develop Asset Analytic dashboards and key performance indicators for out clients to better visualize and manage their activities.
• Support other asset management projects, such as asset management plans and total cost of ownership models.
• Perform end-to-end data analytics, including data collection, transformation, analysis, and visualization.
• Assist in the development of Asset Management frameworks, including AM Strategic Plans, AM Plans, AM Processes.
• Assist clients in understanding the impacts and opportunities relating to them due to the energy transition.
• Research public policy relating to the energy sector and support the development of blogs on what these policies mean for our client market.
• Assist clients in the development of decision frameworks, business processes and tools for capital budget development, prioritization, risk analysis, and lifecycle costing.
• Assist our clients in their rate applications.
  
• The ability and willingness to engage in hands-on consulting project work, including data analysis, research, stakeholder interviews, and preparation of final deliverables is essential.
  

Do your qualities and values match our corporate culture?

• Rigour and ethical
• Results-driven
• Willingness to work together while having fun
• Inspirational leadership
• Ability to see beyond established standards
• Fascination for innovation

At BBA, you get many benefits:

• Access to many experts and coaching
• A collaborative team that shares its ideas and knowledge
• Opportunity for site work: an amazing career accelerator!
• Custom training and development plans
• Interesting growth opportunities to match your ambitions
• Growing business with many opportunities

• Knowledge of other Utility and Energy markets is considered an asset.
• Knowledge in the development of asset analytics and load forecasts related to energy needs is an asset.
• Knowledge of asset management (ISO55000), and regulated markets is considered an asset
• Knowledge of statistical analysis, programming (i.e., Python), and machine learning are a critical requirement.

Familiarity of products and services in the following areas is considered an asset:

• Data processing and data analytics products (Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI etc.)
• Asset Investment Planning and Asset Performance software products (e.g., Copperleaf C55 etc.)
• Enterprise Asset Management systems and systems of record and analytics available on the market (SAP, Maximo etc.)
• Utility and generation company regulation within the Region, both domestically within Canada as well as internationally
• Technologies and systems used by power system operators (SCADA, Metering management, GIS, CAD)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering, Economics, Data Science, Business or similar post-secondary degree
• Can have 0-3 years' of experience (open to new grads)

About BBA
For over 40 years, we've been pushing the boundaries of engineering to serve our clients in the Energy and Natural Resources sector. At BBA, we develop innovative, flexible and sustainable solutions, from strategy to execution.
BBA is one of Canada's leading private consulting engineering firms, focused on practice (PCB), with a network of 18 offices. Our teams work closely to deliver projects that shape tomorrow's industry at the local, national and international levels.
Our people's passion and excellence make BBA a Canada's Best Employer and one of Canada's Best Managed Companies.
We have unique talents, and we're committed to providing a workplace where you can be yourself. Job postings are written in gender-neutral language.
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