Grid Connections Lead
7 days ago
- Full-time role with clear growth opportunities
- Drive strategic grid connection projects and stakeholder engagement
- Sydney preferred, Brisbane and Melbourne will also be considered.
Energy Solutions
The Energy Solutions team is in the privileged position to play a meaningful role in what is the biggest challenge of our generation – climate change. We will achieve this by rapidly leveraging our privileged assets, brands, customer bases and expertise across geographies to accelerate the rollout of our alternative energy market offerings. We are committed to reducing our own emissions and to playing an important role in assisting our customers to navigate the energy transition by reducing their transport emissions.
We are bold and ambitious regional champions for the areas of the energy transition we commit to enable. We create innovative solutions to meet our customers' needs, making their energy transition easy.
About the role:
The Grid Connections Lead will be responsible for managing key relationships with Distributed Network Service Providers (DNSPs) across Australia to enable the successful delivery of Energy Solutions projects. This role plays a critical part in ensuring cost-effective, timely, and technically sound grid connections for EV charging infrastructure, solar, and battery systems. It requires strong commercial acumen, technical oversight, and strategic alignment across stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and maintain relationships with DNSPs to develop tailored grid connection strategies that support project timelines and objectives
- Manage the negotiation and execution of grid connection agreements, permits, and compliance requirements with relevant authorities
- Oversee technical assessments including feasibility studies and grid impact analyses to proactively resolve connection challenges
- Collaborate closely with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to ensure seamless integration of grid connection activities
- Monitor energy market trends and regulatory developments to inform connection strategies and identify continuous improvement opportunities
About you
You are a strategic and commercially focused professional with a deep understanding of DNSPs and the broader energy landscape in Australia. You bring a proven ability to build high-value relationships, navigate complex negotiations, and drive grid connection strategies that align with organisational goals. Your strengths lie in your ability to engage stakeholders, manage complexity, and deliver commercially sound outcomes in a dynamic environment.
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
- Proven track record in developing and managing strategic relationships with NSPs, driving value through collaboration and long-term engagement
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience leading negotiations and securing outcomes that support both regulatory compliance and business strategy
- In-depth knowledge of energy networks, grid connection processes, and key drivers within the energy sector, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Highly organised with excellent communication skills, capable of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects from feasibility through execution
- Tertiary qualifications in engineering, energy systems, business, or a related field, is desirable
Our benefits
- Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars
- We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
- Remote Working: Support for up to 3 months remote international working (conditional to 5 days paid leave for every 30 days of remote work).
- We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
- Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
- Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid). In addition to the 12 months of unpaid parental leave, employees may apply for a further 12 months of unpaid parental leave (a total of 24 months for each birth)
- BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
- Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
- Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
- Leave Options – Up to 6 weeks annual leave and additional Wellbeing leave days.
- Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.
We're an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders. We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.
Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today.
Applications close on 20 October 2025
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