Protection & Control Tester

**Protection & Control Tester**

Ardeer, VIC, AU, 3022

**About us**:
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the electricity distribution networks servicing 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria.

We provide reliable, safe and affordable electricity and our businesses are independently rated as the best in the country for their efficiency. Sustaining this is all the more critical and challenging as greater electrification of homes, fleets and industries becomes a core strategy for reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.

Using advanced analytics, knowledge built through years of practical expertise, partnerships with leading researchers, and the courage to experiment, our people are proud to be disruptive influencers amongst the electricity industry.

We value inclusive leadership and teams and celebrate the results of succeeding together. But our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within.

This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**About the Role**:
As a Protection and Control tester, you will perform maintenance testing, operating and commissioning of Electrical Plant, Protection, Control Metering and Communications equipment in Zone Substations, EHV Terminal Stations, Distribution Substations, HV Customer Installations, and on Pole-Top installations.

This role will initially be base at our Ardeer Depot, however once construction of Powercor's new depot in Brooklyn is completed you will re locate to Brooklyn.

You are expected to meet the company's customer service objectives of providing safe, reliable, timely and cost effective supply of electricity and associated services.

**Key requirements of the role**:

- Proven experience providing or assisting in testing services of Electrical Plant, Protection & Control systems up to 500kV in a relevant industry
- Experience in performing electrical testing on medium to complex systems in accordance with established work practices and regulations
- Operating procedures, practices and outage planning
- Hold a Sanction for Test authority (SFT) and effectively test plant in accordance with the SFT authority
- Competent in the use of the IT systems; which will include SCADA, GIS, EDNAR, RESIS (Relay Equipment Settings Information System), Google Enterprise, ENMAC via Webview
- A practical understanding of business escalation & incident management processes
- Working understanding of the Company's work practices & procedures relating to primary & secondary equipment testing
- Advanced Diploma (ESI Power Systems); or a recognised equivalent qualification (compulsory)
- Statement of Attainment for Competency Standard Units (compulsory)
- Current Refresher Training records (compulsory)
- Construction Induction Card (optional)
- Car license (compulsory)
- Australian ESI Skills Passport (optional)
- High Risk Licence (optional)
- Heavy Vehicle Licence (optional)
- Switching training / authority (optional)

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we're committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within.

This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

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