Senior Associate Electrical Engineer

1 week ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Beca Full time

Be involved. Be heard. Belong. Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights. 'Creative people together transforming our world' is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients. At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you're not just on the fringes; you're making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it's not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

Join our Power team

Our energy future is being transformed by technological innovations that will deliver more sustainable outcomes, bringing greater energy security, and affordability to Australian communities. This role is to support the power team who work throughout Australasia on iconic projects that are shaping the energy transition journey to net-zero carbon emissions. We deliver innovative technical solutions to our high voltage power generation, transmission and distribution clients across Australasia.

The Opportunity

You will be a key member of a dynamic, collaborative and engaging team With a strong pipeline of work, our team is growing, we are looking for an experienced HV Design/Primary Engineer to continue to grow and shape the success of our Power team. In this Melbourne or Sydney based role you will:

  1. Lead the technical delivery of Primary/HV projects from feasibility, concept designs, detail designs and owner's engineer.
  2. Develop, mentor and lead junior engineers.
  3. Lead the primary design of high voltage substations and other related infrastructure.
  4. Work in collaboration with engineering and project teams to deliver timely and accurate documentation and reports.
  5. Lead teams of engineers to undertake larger packages of work, including training and mentoring junior staff.
  6. Provide Concept and Detailed design and review of specifications, drawings etc.
  7. Maintain expected current design standards as set by legislative requirements.
  8. Carry out quality checks and procedures.
  9. Draw upon your own technical expertise, and those of the broader team to deliver high-quality technical advice to our client.
  10. Contribute in a team environment and drive delivery excellence across the Power team.
  11. Play a supporting role and contribute to strategic bids and tenders in future energy across ANZ and support cross business line activities.

This exciting opportunity will bring a mix of your technical expertise and your design engineering and project management experience to deliver successful client outcomes. This is an interesting and varied role that will provide career growth and challenge.

What we'll like about you

You are a confident and capable senior engineer who is looking to be part of a growing team, passionate to work on iconic projects and seeking to enhance your career. Your technical skills are based on solid fundamentals and have been proven through the delivery of robust and innovative power engineering projects and designs. You experience and are comfortable leading teams and mentoring junior engineers. You will also have varied Electrical Engineering skills which will allow you to contribute to the power business in a broader sense.

Preferably, you will have proven capability across a range of the following areas:

  1. Understanding of a range of engineering disciplines and experience in electricity transmission, distribution and traction power projects.
  2. Experience within substation primary engineering positions across HV/EHV substations design (up to 500kV ideally).
  3. Ideally have Solar farm / Windfarm connection substation experience.
  4. Experience in use of engineering software in the design.
  5. Understanding of design and how it impacts on construction.
  6. Be organised, adaptable and able to think outside the box.
  7. Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to manage stakeholder relationships; being an excellent communicator able to explain complex issues to a range of stakeholders (internal and external).
  8. Results-oriented with good technical engineering basis in either transmission, distribution or rail traction power and managing project delivery.
  9. Relevant tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering.

To be part of this dynamic and busy team we're looking for someone with drive, energy, excellent interpersonal and communication skills and enthusiasm. Previous experience of working in a team environment are a must have for this role, along with the ability to manage and support multiple tasks.

Ready to Be involved. Be heard. Belong?

If you want to be part of the Beca story, apply online today. For additional information, please contact Eimear Keeley (Talent Acquisition Business Partner): Eimear.Keeley@beca.com

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences. Apply now

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