Senior Primary Substation Design Engineer

What you will bring to the team:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• Minimum 10 years related experience working with Power Utilities, ideally working on Australian utility assets.
• Extensive experience in Primary Substation detailed design for substations from 132kV to 500kV
• Thorough understanding of switchyard layouts and busbar configurations, and selection / application.
• Experience in designing outdoor rigid and strung busbar including BoM preparation.
• Experience in designing layout of transformer bunds (to inform structural design).
• Experience in designing layout of switchyard conduits and trenches (to inform civil design).
• Experience in main equipment selection and preparation of technical specifications
• Understanding of primary design interfaces e.g. secondary, structural, civil, geotechnical, hydrology, etc.
• Understanding of operational and maintenance requirements.
• Construction experience would be advantageous.
• Strong ability in authoring design reports, scope of work and related technical documentation.
• Proficient at managing the quality of deliverables produced by others.
• Understanding of large-scale grid connection processes with local utilities.
• Ability to direct and coordinate works to meet schedule, budget and quality requirements.
• Have a strong focus on client relationships.