Engineer and Project Leader Automation

January 7 2025
Industries Architecture, Engineering and related
Categories Automation, Process, Electrical, Instrumentation, Controls, Project, Project management, Planning
Montreal, QC | Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC • Full time

Type of position: Regular

Your future role on our team

By joining our team as an engineer and project leader, you'll participate in engineering mandates and programming in automation, instrumentation and control. Your role will be to contribute to various phases of engineering and site work. You may be asked to help develop various deliverables that would make it possible to carry out a digital solutions mandate. You'll also have the opportunity to mobilize and manage a work team to deliver the expected results, while developing your entrepreneurial skills.

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

  • Help define the scope of projects and proposals
  • Allocate tasks to technicians and drafters assigned to the project, review their work and assess the technical scope
  • Be involved in commissioning
  • Help prepare plans and specifications as well as detailed engineering deliverables (P&IDs, layout drawings, I/O loop and motor control diagrams, lists of cables and instruments, installation details)
  • Help program programmable logic controllers (PLCs), distributed control systems (DCSs) and human-machine interfaces
  • Monitor the project to ensure it remains on time and on budget


Do your qualities and values match our corporate culture?

  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • Results-driven
  • Desire to motivate and train the next generation
  • Thirst to learn and excel
  • Willingness to work together while having fun
  • Ability to see beyond established standards

Overview of certifications and job requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec
  • From 5 to 12 years of relevant experience in automation, instrumentation and control
  • Experience in programming control systems (SCADA, PLC, DCS)
  • Experience in pre-operational verifications (POVs) and commissioning
  • Asset: Bilingual (English and French), both spoken and written, and ability to draft technical documents in both languages
  • Asset: Knowledge of DCS

At BBA, you get many benefits

  • Long-term hiring prospects (not just project-based)
  • Interesting growth opportunities to match your ambitions
  • A collaborative team that shares its ideas and knowledge
  • A flexible schedule that allows you to work at the office and from home
  • A caring environment where everyone's ideas are listened to and where there's no sense of hierarchy
  • Friendly, eco-mindful and high-tech workspaces


BBA is committed to promoting diversity and employment equity. We thank you for your interest in our firm. Please note that only those candidates selected will be contacted.

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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