Electrical Engineer Automation

Electrical Engineer (Protection)

Guildford West, New South Wales | Efficient Recruitment

Posted 4 days ago

Job Description

Electrical Engineer - (Protection)
A.C.N. PTY LTD T/A Spark Professional Services
Stimson St, Guildford, NSW 2161
ABN
$100,000 – $101,000 AUD annually plus superannuation
Full Time

About Us

Spark Professional Services (SPS) is a trusted leader in high and low-voltage electrical engineering and design. With a team of expert engineers and cutting-edge technology, we provide tailored solutions for power systems, protection studies, testing, commissioning, and proactive maintenance. Our mission is to ensure efficiency, reliability, and safety in every project we undertake.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop protection schemes for HV/MV substations, transmission, and distribution networks.
• Prepare and review relay protection settings, logic diagrams, and scheme drawings in compliance with AS/NZS standards.
• Carry out protection coordination studies, short circuit analysis, load flow, and stability studies using industry software (ETAP, PowerFactory, DigSILENT).
• Develop detailed specifications for protective relays, CTs/VTs, circuit breakers, and associated control/protection panels.
• Liaise with utilities, EPC contractors, and OEMs (e.g., Siemens, ABB, GE, Schneider, SEL) for protection equipment selection and configuration.
• Prepare technical documentation including protection reports, single-line diagrams, and functional specifications.
• Support SCADA and communication system integration for protection and control systems.
• Provide technical input for tendering and project proposals, including equipment schedules and technical compliance matrices.
• Review factory acceptance test (FAT) and site acceptance test (SAT) procedures from a protection perspective, ensuring compliance with design intent.
• Conduct root cause analysis of protection system maloperations and recommend corrective measures.
• Ensure designs incorporate WHS, isolation, and safe work requirements in protection schemes.
• Stay current with developments in protection technologies, IEC/IEEE standards, and industry best practices.

Skills, qualifications and Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree with at least 2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience ensuring adherence to AS/NZS standards and WHS legislation, with strict application of permit-to-work.
• Skilled in protection coordination, SCADA integration, fault diagnosis, and root cause analysis of HV/MV equipment.
• Ability to stay updated with the latest advancements in electrical engineering technologies and best practices.
• Technical troubleshooting skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Willingness to travel to different project sites.

Job Description

This is a Senior Network Engineer (Network Automation) role with Westpac based in Sydney, NSW, AU

Role Seniority: Mid level

What's the role?

This role will play a pivotal role in a mid to large-scale network security operations team. The role entails Level 3 escalations handling and organizing vulnerability and maintenance windows.

Your intermediate to professional knowledge in coding/scripting will be instrumental in supporting our network automation platform which supports customer requests. Your expertise will extend to scripting for database queries, bolstering the databases housing network telemetry and status information. If you're driven by innovation and have a knack for solving intricate challenges, this role offers the perfect avenue to excel.

Key Duties:

• Installation, configuration, and upgrade of hardware, systems, and software for networks.
• Management of network and security performance by monitoring, troubleshooting, reporting, and continuous improvement to optimize performance.
• Identify, analyze, and manage risk at every aspect of work.
• Secure network system by establishing and enforcing policies, defining and monitoring access.
• Undertake project design and architecture work, like high-level and detailed design work.
• Provide technical consultation to business/technology stakeholders to support relevant infrastructure partners and other business stakeholders.

What do I need?

• Coding Skills: Python scripting/coding (Intermediate) - primary importance.
• DevOps tools Skills: BitBucket, Jenkins, JIRA, GitHub, Terraform, Vault.
• Network Security: Operational expertise in the networking domain, showcasing your ability to tackle complex network challenges. Experience with F5 load balancer, GTM/LTM, Firewalls - Juniper SRX, Fortinet FortiGate, VMware (now Broadcom) NSX.
• Data Management Skills: Data Collection, Schema Binding, Data Manipulation, and Analytical skills.

Why join us?

We're obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we're looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we're committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we're already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle, and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the

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