Senior Electrical Engineer

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About Us

WGA is an Australian and New Zealand company like no other — we are owned by our employees, loved by our long-term clients, and have deep roots in our communities. With a team of over 700 people, WGA provides a rich, diverse, and empowered workplace, and offers you a chance to work alongside some of the best in the business.

WGA offers an outstanding working environment that fosters and supports mutual learning, respect, dignity, cultural openness, and an appreciation of differing perspectives and backgrounds. We strive to offer inspiring career paths and a selection of fantastic employee benefits including exceptional parental leave options, flexible hours and work from home capability and learning and development programs tailored to you. We empower our engineers and designers to think outside the square and dare to be different in their delivery of tailored design engineering solutions across the Buildings, Transport, Water Infrastructure, Urban Development, Ports and Marine, Energy, Defence and Resources sectors.

About Our Approach

We focus upon the core philosophy of delivering excellent engineering solutions for our valued Clients which allows us to create exceptional, long-term opportunities for our personnel. Our unique style of project delivery ensures that our people don't have to choose between maintaining hands on Engineering Design and corporate career options, they can have both

About Our Role

Off the back of major project wins and a growing pipeline of work in our Resources and Energy teams, we are looking for a collaborative Senior Electrical Engineer to assist in the delivery of a broad range of projects and continue to mentor and develop others in our Perth team.

Accountabilities

• LV and HV power systems analysis (loadflow, fault levels, protection)
• LV and HV power systems design (SLDs, schematics, cable schedules, layouts)
• Protection systems design
• Earthing and lightning protection system design
• Instrumentation and Control system design (I/O lists, Instrument lists and datasheets, specifications)
• Control and communication hardware system design and selection (PLCs, fibre and copper comms networks)
• Preparation and presentation of reports

About You

• Demonstrated experience with overall HV and LV electrical engineering in heavy industrial and/or mining environments
• Experience with specifying and selecting switchgear, power transformers and minor substation plant
• Demonstrated experience with overall Instrumentation, control and communication engineering in heavy industrial and/or mining environments
• Experience with specifying and selecting instruments and control system components e.g. PLCs, sensors, cabling, valves
• Experience with specifying PLC programming requirements through functional descriptions and specifications
• Experience with specifying and selecting communications hardware e.g. Fibre and copper cabling, switches
• Tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering and immediately eligible for Membership of Engineers Australia; Chartered Engineer and/or RPEQ
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, both internally and externally
• Strong client focus and the ability to work within or lead a project team

About Working With Us

At WGA we believe a diverse workplace fosters unique and progressive ideas and drives our culture of learning and sharing knowledge. We encourage all to apply because whatever your background you can progress your career and enjoy the benefits that only a privately owned organisation can offer. WGA is a Work180 endorsed workplace for women.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Industries: Professional Services

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