Power Engineer Career Accelerator -- Alberta - August 5, 2025 - August 15, 2025

Admission Requirements

Post-secondary programs  

To be eligible for the Power Engineer Career Accelerator program, students must be accepted into one of the following programs starting in fall 2025.   

• Lakeland College: Process and Power Engineering (Program is wait-listed)
• Portage College: Power Engineering 4th Class  (Program is waitlisted)
• Keyano College: Power Engineering 4th Class Power Comprehensive  (Applications are open)
• SAIT: Power Engineering Technology (Applications are open)
• NAIT: Power Engineering 4th Class Part A and Power Engineering 4th Class Part B (Online synchronous; applications are open)
• NAIT: 1-year certificate (Program is waitlisted)
• NAIT: 2-year diploma (Program is waitlisted)

Some post-secondary institutions offer a 2-year program to progress through 4th Class and 3rd Class power engineering, while at others you will need to apply separately to the 4th and 3rd Class programs.  

Applicants who receive conditional acceptance into an approved post-secondary power engineering program are encouraged to apply to the Power Engineer Career Accelerator program. This will give you time to work through the application process with WBF while waiting for your final acceptance.  

Our industry partners   

Our industry partners include:

• Pembina Pipeline 
• Inter Pipeline 
• Dow

Students must be available for a placement at one of our partners’ locations. The ideal candidates for this program should be willing to relocate.

• Industrial Heartland (northeast of Edmonton) 
• Fort McMurray 
• Cochrane 

• Empress 
• Hythe 
• Fox Creek