Electrical Engineer

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• Location is flexible including Henderson, WA, Cannon Hill QLD or Mawson Lakes, SA.
• Flexibility to focus on career, family, and lifestyle with opportunities to incorporate office/work from home split and a 9-day fortnight on offer.
• The highly diverse electrical systems work offers fantastic travel opportunities with the Mission System located in Exmouth Western Australia, gateway to the world-class Ningaloo Reef.

As a proud industry leader in Defence mission support, Raytheon Australia is responsible for providing mission critical systems operations, engineering, maintenance and base support services for the Harold E. Holt Defence Precinct, located near Exmouth, Western Australia. This includes services for the maintenance, operation and upgrade of critical defence infrastructure including the Space Surveillance Telescope, Very Low Frequency (VLF) Communications Transmitter and C-Band Radar.

If you are ready for the next step in your career and want to support this critical remote Defence facility, this is the role is for you.

To support our mission, Raytheon is seeking a motivated Electrical Engineer who is ready to join a diverse, talented, and enthusiastic team of engineering professionals. Reporting to the VLF Engineering Manager and working closely with the VLF Senior Electrical Engineer, your prime responsibility is to support and sustain one of the most powerful radio transmitters in the world, the VLF Transmitter.

You will assist in complex fault rectification, electrical design, and sustainment activities to assure the NCS HEH electrical asset operational performance and governance is maintained in accordance with Australian electrical standards & WA state legislation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Contractor Standing Capability (CSC) Project Engineering Manager (EM) you will support the Senior Electrical Engineer in the execution of electrical engineering activities for the CSC Project.
• Assist in the delivery of solutions that achieve regulatory compliance, safety and required technical performance to meet project schedules via delivery of key milestones within budget and delivery timeframes.
• Working closely with the CSC Senior Electrical Engineer, you will execute your duties in accordance with the prescribed company  engineering processes, delivering documented technical outcomes that achieve the desired technical integrity and quality for the program.
• Work with the Senior Electrical Engineer to support the VLF Transmitter Mission System, ensuring high availability operation and sustainment of over 1MW of triode vacuum tube amplifiers.
• Work with the Senior Electrical Engineer to fault find, maintain and sustain the sites power generation, power transmission, plant equipment, radar and control systems.
• Assist in the identification, documentation and mitigation of risk of Electrical Engineering Hazards.
• Assist in electrical defect investigations, maintenance-related investigations and preparation of special technical instructions.
• Liaise with the VLF Engineering Manager on project engineering issues, design process and engineering change development in accordance with company and program procedures.
• Participation in technical reviews, planning, estimating and scheduling of electrical engineering tasks for the CSC activities.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in an Electrical Engineering with at least two years of post-graduate professional engineering experience in the area of Electrical systems;
• Ability to resolve defects on a diverse range of electrical systems;
• Familiarity with Australian Standard (AS) electrical standards and preferably with WA legislation;
• Preferred familiarity with SCADA, Siemens and Allen-Bradley control systems;
• Candidates must be eligible to obtain an Australian Defence Security Clearance. Eligibility can be found at with ability to satisfy ITAR material access compliance.

Don't miss the opportunity to build your career in a world class team and help build the defence systems that keep Australia safe.

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