Senior Transmission Line Engineer

2 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Zinfra Full time
About Zinfra

Zinfra is a leading infrastructure services provider dedicated to delivering exceptional solutions in the energy, utilities, and infrastructure sectors. We pride ourselves on our innovative approach, technical expertise, and commitment to safety, quality, and sustainability. Our team of over 2000 members across the East Coast consistently strives to exceed our clients' expectations and make a positive impact in the communities we serve.

The Zinfra Projects and Infrastructure business is the trusted partner for delivering construction projects in Transmission Lines, Substations (Green and Brown field), Renewable energy storage, and Green Gas infrastructure.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Transmission Line Engineer to report to and work directly with our Principal Transmission Lines Engineer. This newly created role will be responsible for supporting the establishment, development, and delivery of profitable Projects, producing accurate and timely design solution tender deliverables, value engineering, constructability review, risk identification & management, and project delivery support.

The successful candidate will develop and maintain close relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including operations personnel, key clients, design consultants, and contractors.

Key Responsibilities
  • Identify and develop project design solutions, including required outputs across multiple bids and projects, as per contractual requirements.
  • Manage works in accordance with agreed deadlines.
  • Provide engineering support to Design Managers delivering design deliverables.
  • Deliver high-quality design services and meet changing business conditions.
  • Identify required design services to ensure design deliverables are on time and to quality through program management and stakeholder engagement.
  • Provide optimum design solutions for projects to satisfy internal and external client requirements, while achieving budget and program expectations.
  • Support strong ownership of personal performance and commitment and pride in work.
  • Support a culture aligning with the company values.
  • Support the management of design consultants and ensure compliance and delivery of engineering design/outputs for projects.
  • Provide support to the Principal Transmission Lines Engineer to deliver a program of transmission lines design and engineering works.
  • Undertake occasional site visits providing engineering and design support during tender development and for ongoing projects.
  • Develop tender design solutions at short notice for tender requests, ensuring tender designs have sufficient detail for estimators, constructors, suppliers, and subcontractors to understand the scope and properly estimate the work.
  • Review developed design deliverables, including studies, reports, calculations, drawings, specifications, quantity take-offs, etc., in accordance with head contract, client specifications, pertinent codes, standards, and legislative requirements.
  • Undertake value engineering and drive engineering innovation.
  • Compile and/or procure costs/estimates and risk assessments in D&C/EPC bids for detailed design, specialist consultant services, and specialist procurement items.
  • Provide innovative engineering solutions to improve Zinfra's ability to win work and ensure the achievement of revenue targets.
  • Foster and evaluate new engineering developments, technologies, systems, and products to improve Zinfra's design management capabilities and offerings.
  • Support skills development and training of junior, graduate, and project engineers.
About You

To be considered for this role, your resume should highlight tertiary qualifications in a relevant subject and demonstrated experience in design and possibly design management for energy networks. Additionally, please detail:

  • Experience working in bid teams.
  • Time spent working in solution development.
  • Ability to operate general and transmission lines specific design software packages.
  • Your ability to identify and develop compliant transmission lines design outputs.
  • Level of experience in project/site engineering and project support.
  • Experience in constructability review.
Recruitment Process

During our recruitment process, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks, including pre-employment medical, reference checks, and a national police check.

Zinfra is a champion of equal opportunity employment and has committed to targets for gender equity and first nations representation in our workforce. We promote an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, including First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics.

We offer meaningful benefits and rewards that work for you. This high-profile role offers the opportunity for potential long-term career growth as part of our talent development and succession planning process.



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