Senior Project Engineer

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.

About the Role

As part of our Transmission Project Development Team, you'll provide technical expertise on transmission lines projects, collaborating with internal stakeholders and Design & Construction Delivery Partners to ensure successful project outcomes. Your specialist knowledge of transmission line structures, foundations and construction will help drive efficient, future-focused solutions across brownfield and greenfield projects.

With a hybrid split (Office/WFH), this role is based in Southbank, Melbourne and is part of the Project Development, Transmission Delivery Team.

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

• Technical Expertise – Provide engineering support for customer and company-initiated transmission projects
• Design & Assessment – Develop scopes, review brownfield/greenfield designs, and ensure constructability, safety, and maintainability (PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE & TOWER)
• Project Planning – Contribute to cost-effective business cases, supporting schedules, risk registers, and commercial offers
• Standards & Improvements – Identify opportunities to enhance standards and improve engineering processes
• Stakeholder Collaboration – Build strong relationships with internal teams and design service providers
• Leadership & Mentoring – Lead, coach, and share expertise with team members
• Estimations & Scheduling – Support development of accurate project estimates and timelines
• Substation/Terminal station Projects – Assist in scoping, risk assessment, and commercial inputs for transmission substations

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

• Engineering Qualification – Tertiary degree in Civil, Structural, or Mechanical Engineering
• Licensing – Full driver's license and Registered Engineer in Victoria (RPEV) – or eligibility
• Technical Expertise – Civil, Structural or Electrical engineering project experience around electricity networks and transmission lines
• Software - PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, and TOWER design software Proficiency
• Project Leadership – Strong understanding of lifecycles, design, construction, and regulatory compliance
• Communication Skills – Ability to simplify complex engineering analysis for non-engineers
• Team Development – Proven capability in coaching, mentoring, and leading project teams
• Stakeholder Engagement – Ability to build relationships across divisions and with external partners
• Industry Involvement – Engineers Australia membership (or equivalent) preferred; regular local travel required

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.