Lead Secondary Engineer

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 Lead Secondary Engineer – Protection, Control & Automation, you'll be responsible for delivering expert engineering advice and leadership across a range of asset management activities. You'll contribute to the development of engineering standards, maintenance policies, and strategic asset plans, while supporting the delivery of capital and operational works programs.

This role involves hands-on technical work, including device performance analysis, failure investigations, and scheme design, as well as strategic input into asset lifecycle planning. You'll collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulatory and safety obligations, and help drive innovation in protection and control technologies.

With a Hybrid split (Southbank/WFH), this role is based in Southbank working within the Asset Management Team

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

• Providing specialist technical expertise associated with protection relays, field devices, control devices and auxiliary systems.
• Providing expert input asset management strategies and philosophies.
• Providing expert input to protection, control and automation device and scheme performance and technical specifications.
• Developing maintenance policies and practices.
• Provide engineering leadership to resolve complex engineering issues during project delivery.
• Assessing and reviewing the condition of installed protection, control and automation assets.
• Review/audit and maintenance of asset related databases.
• Investigating and analysing equipment failures or problems, drafting reports, creating remedial actions.

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

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant Engineering field, with a strong commitment to safety outcomes and engineering judgement
• Proven ability to develop and implement strategic asset management plans aligned with organisational strategy, particularly in regulated environments
• Deep understanding of asset management frameworks, regulatory requirements, and Australian and international standards and codes of practice
• Expertise in distribution system components and technologies, with a focus on protection, control, automation devices, and emerging innovations
• Proficient in software tools for protection and control scheme design (e.g., DigSilent, relay software), and capable of administering device settings files
• Skilled in leading and coordinating failure and incident investigations, applying advanced reasoning and analytical skills to optimise asset performance

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.