Senior Primary Engineer

5 days ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Beca Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Beca Power & Energy – Senior Primary Engineer (Substations HV Design)
Beca's Power business operates as a truly combined Asia Pacific business, with teams based in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Indonesia. Working collaboratively, our teams are passionate about renewable energy and the delivery of critical energy projects working across the full project lifecycle from scoping, detailed design through to procurement and construction support. Together they deliver large, complex energy and renewable projects across Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and HV Power services to key utilities, energy developers, major contractors for the commercial, industrial and infrastructure sectors. Further details available here: .

The Opportunity
Be part of an international team of highly experienced electrical engineering specialists who together design and deliver a range of critical Power primary, substation and infrastructure related projects. You will gain wide-ranging experience through leading and working on a variety of project types that differ in scale, scope, geography, site and client types throughout Australia and New Zealand. The complexity, variety and type of projects you will be working on will enable you to step change your Primary and Substation design abilities, while also providing you with the opportunity to work within, and learn from, some of the industry's leading Power engineers, designers and technical leaders.

Key Role Components Include

  • Completing concept and detailed designs for High Voltage (HV 220kV) and Extra High Voltage (EHV) for transmission and distribution clients using the latest in digital design technologies.
  • Problem solving and delivering solutions across a variety of site considerations, client requirements, standards, equipment specifications, cabling sizing, earthing design calculations, and safety standards.
  • Develop your technical expertise while supporting the delivery of high-quality technical advice and project designs, to our clients.
  • Mentor, coach and develop the next generation of Power electrical engineers, helping them to undertake packages of works, supporting their on-the-job and technical training developing their careers.
  • Contribute to and support delivery excellence, quality assurance, and high-quality design.
  • Develop skills across financial and programme outcomes for projects and work packages.
  • Support client management activities including bidding, and the preparation of project proposals.

Our design and project roles are busy, with multiple work projects, differing client deadlines and changing timeframes. Your ability to work across multiple workstreams managing your time and deliverables will be important, as will being able to adapt to changing project deliverables and timeframes. Updating stakeholders early and often, will be a key mantra that you work by, especially for those 'hard conversations' where project timelines are at risk of not being met.

You will be part of team of Beca's leading design experts working collaboratively to deliver best in class designs. Career development opportunities exist including moving across technical, design, technology, people, client or business leadership pathways.

About You
Your primary and substation design skills are grounded in solid fundamentals, proven through leading complex projects. You have experience delivering high voltage substation designs, ensuring quality and accuracy while guiding others. You understand key steps for producing substation layouts, equipment lists, clearance checks, and HV cable designs, and are familiar with Australian and New Zealand regulations. Proficiency in CYMCAP, CDEGs, Autodesk SBS, Inventor, Navisworks, AutoCAD, and/or MicroStation is advantageous.

You are motivated to learn and grow within a team, managing multiple tasks with enthusiasm and a focus on outcomes. You excel in building credible relationships across functions and disciplines, collaborating effectively with clients, contractors, and community groups. You're passionate about learning, engaging, and supporting others, with a positive attitude and a good sense of humour.

You'll be a valued team member with opportunities to grow your career, contribute to the Power team's success. Our colleagues come from diverse backgrounds, including client, consultancy, design-build contractors, and industrial businesses. We invite applications from a broad range of backgrounds.

Who is Beca?
Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

'Creative people together transforming our world' is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.

At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you're not just on the fringes; you're making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it's not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

Ready to make the move? / Apply now
If you want to make every day better, apply online today If you have any questions, you can find out more about our people and projects by visiting .



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