Senior Engineer, WA Future System Engineering

Senior Engineer, WA Future System Engineering – Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)

Division: Western Australia & Strategy

Department: WA System Design & Transformation

Reference number: 12553

Engagement type: Permanent

About AEMO

AEMO is Australia's independent energy system and market operator and system planner. AEMO's purpose is to ensure safe, reliable and affordable energy today, and enable the energy transition for the benefit of all Australians. Australian governments are now committed to a net zero economy for Australia by 2050 and our vision is to enable this. We have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to co-design the future of our energy systems, and our core values revolve around character, commitment, and connection. Join us as we contribute to this significant transition in the energy sector.

About The Role

The WA Future System Engineering team leads the design and delivery of strategic engineering initiatives under the SWIS Engineering Roadmap Program. The team leads Transition Point Planning and readiness across the WA energy sector, ensuring the secure and reliable operation of the SWIS through the energy transition. By providing expert engineering advice, the team supports reform development, investment decisions and stakeholder engagement. It also identifies strategic alignment opportunities with the NEM to leverage AEMO's engineering expertise nationally. The team plays a key role in engaging with industry, market bodies, and governments to address technical risks and challenges in the evolving energy landscape.

Focused on the SWIS and WA gas sector, you will be responsible for leading strategic engineering initiatives that support AEMO's ability to maintain power system security and reliability while enabling the industry to transition to an affordable and sustainable energy future.

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide technical leadership of delivery of system design and transformation initiatives under the SWIS Engineering Roadmap Program and work collaboratively to coordinate and optimise delivery with other related engineering initiatives across AEMO and industry.
• Provide engineering expertise to support reform development and implementation, by ensuring that new policy, regulatory and market mechanisms consider technical and power system engineering requirements. This includes the delivery of projects and initiatives that help proponents value the service contributions from their assets, and early works for transition points, ready for handover to AEMO Operations.
• Present AEMO's latest technical understanding from the SWIS Engineering Roadmap to participants, market bodies, governments and a wider non-technical audience.
• Informally lead one to two subject matter experts.

What You Will Bring To The Role

• Degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• Strong understanding of the operation and planning of large power systems, and the engineering challenges that need to be addressed as the SWIS transitions.
• Demonstrated experience making innovation and change happen, thinking strategically about the requirements of the future, being comfortable with ambiguity and driving outcomes in the face of resistance.
• Demonstrated analytical skills sufficient to review, critique and approve the modelled outcomes that underpin key messages to stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in managing a variety of stakeholders with conflicting interests, negotiating agreed outcomes, and delivering these on time and to budget. This experience will include facilitating industry working groups and negotiating the resolution of complex issues across stakeholders with competing objectives and a variety of commercial and reputational drivers.

Benefits

• Flexible working: work from home, part time, job share, hybrid options, and additional leave options
• Professional development via projects, industry networks, job rotation, study assistance and more.
• Give back with up to 4 days of volunteering leave per year.
• Reward your hard work with annual performance bonuses (subject to eligibility).
• Embrace a healthier you with our wellness program, discounted health insurance, gym perks and our comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

About Our Process

At AEMO we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome people of all backgrounds, including people with disabilities and neurodivergence and those who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the application or interview process, simply let us know by emailing us at talent@aemo.com.au

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Utilities

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