1. Engineering > Infrastructure Projects > Network Augmentation
2. Meaningful work with real purpose > Exciting experiences to enrich your career
3. You will be pivotal in the ongoing change in the energy sector growth
When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together, making Real. Progress
At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.
Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.
Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.
Play an instrumental role in leading various activities including scoping and estimating for new projects and tenders, responding to technical challenges that arise during the development of new opportunities, development and optimisation of designs and construction support.
Join our team as the Senior Engineer (Secondary) where you will provide specialist engineering and technical leadership for engineering to AusNet’s Development and Future Networks divisions infrastructure teams.
You will be responsible for autonomously supporting business development and client management activities with techno-commercial inputs in the space of electrical terminal station Secondary design, construction and asset management.
With a hybrid split (Office/WFH), this role is based in Southbank, Melbourne and is part of the Infrastructure Engineering Network Infrastructure Development & Future Networks department, reporting into the Team Lead, Infrastructure.
For candidates interested in moving for this role from states outside of Victoria in Australia, we would be delighted to offer relocation assistance for this role.
This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:
4. Provide specialist technical, commercial, asset management and design advice to support AusNet Services growth within the Stations Secondary engineering discipline.
5. Working within/leading multidiscipline teams to manage the development of tender and detailed designs, project scopes of work, equipment and construction specifications and other project activities.
6. Auditing secondary detailed design deliverables to the required quality, meeting all relevant standards and functional requirements.
7. Provide engineering support to resolve complex engineering issues during project development and delivery.
8. Identify opportunities to introduce innovation, value engineering and new technologies.
9. Coach and mentor personnel within the team sharing knowledge and experience to achieve team and divisional objectives.
10. Assess technical risks and ensure they are managed through design or commercial means.
11. Support in the development and maintenance of engineering standards, to ensure network compliance with legal, technical, regulatory and safety obligations.
12. Represent AusNet Services on technical matters with our clients and partners.
13. Evaluate options and make recommendations for complex technical problems requiring inventiveness to depart from or adapt accepted practices and procedures for which it is necessary to modify established guidelines and devise new approaches.
You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:
14. Degree in Engineering or tertiary qualification with significant experience in utilities with depth in design and asset management. This includes, but may not be limited to: Terminal Station & Substation Protection & Control Requirements Terminal Station & Substation Relay Settings & Calculations Relay programming and configuration Design review of secondary drawings and reports Knowledge of relay testing and commissioning
15. Prior experience across secondary engineering design and construction with the business acumen and ability to meet engineering design excellence
16. NER is required for this role.
17. Extensive knowledge of Secondary electrical equipment in respect to design, performance, functionality, operation, and maintenance as used in Terminal Stations and Substations rated at up to 500kV in accordance with relevant Australian Standards ( AS2067).
18. Ability to use basic design or drawing software ( AutoCAD) is desirable
19. Proven capability in developing conceptual plans into feasible designs and producing high quality design deliverables such as drawings and scope of works.
20. Considerable knowledge of other engineering disciplines and their impacts on Terminal Station & Substation design and equipment selection
21. Demonstrated ability to liaise with project related teams such as project managers commercial, design contractors, construction contractors, communications, real time systems team and other Network Service Providers
22. Prior experience working in the Contractor or Service Provider space is desirable
23. Chartered Engineering status is desirable