Project Engineer

Location:
Victoria, Australia

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Description:

When you choose AusNet, you'll join genuine people working together making Real. Progress

At AusNet, we're the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia's cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That's refreshing.

As the Project Engineer – Transmission Lines, you will provide engineering and technical support for the development and delivery of transmission line projects at AusNet.

In this role, you will offer expert technical advice on both customer-initiated and company-driven projects across our transmission network. This includes projects involving high voltage (HV) and extra high voltage (EHV) conductors, towers, gantries, optical ground wire (OPGW) circuits, and associated infrastructure.

You'll collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, the design management and construction and commissioning teams to ensure projects are delivered cost-effectively, safely, and to the highest quality standards.

With a Hybrid split (Office/WFH), this role is based in South Bank and is part of the Transmission Delivery Team. Sporadic travel will be required to AusNet Offices, Depots & Assets.

This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Contribute to the development of scopes and specifications for estimation. Produce and assess brownfield and greenfield transmission lines designs, providing technical input into staging, constructability, operability, maintainability and safety in design. Line design with PLS-CADD, Structure design and modelling using PLS-POLE and TOWER Foundation design.
• Contribute to the development of scopes and estimates for Transmission lines projects ensuring cost effective and constructible business cases can be delivered, including, supporting the development of project schedules and risk registers and providing engineering responses to commercial offers on customer projects.
• Identify opportunities to develop new or improved standards and to ensure the timely delivery of efficient solutions of complex technical engineering designs and standards, taking ownership of process improvement initiatives and development of new methods where necessary
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide support to the estimation and schedule development activities.
• Identify opportunities to develop new, and update existing engineering standards

You don't need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Civil, Structural or Mechanical Engineering

License requirements: N/A

• Full driving license required

Registration:

Register Engineer in Victoria (RPEV) required (at least eligibility)

Experience:

• Sound experience working in Transmission Line Design
• Technical knowledge and experience in electricity networks engineering
• Simplify complex engineering analysis for non-engineers (e.g. summarising key decision-making during project development)
• Understanding of project lifecycles and application of engineering principals with design and construction knowledge covering performance, functionality, operation, maintenance and risks
• Experience working in transmission lines engineering, project delivery and/or design role

A real place to belong.

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here's what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we'll work with you to help balance work and life.

• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.

• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.

• Perks: we offer all the other perks you've come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we're excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you're passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward