Title:  Group Leader, Primary Engineering

About us

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.

We are going through an exciting period of growth and with that we have a great opportunity for a Group Leader – Primary Engineering to join us!

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.

About the role

This role will see you leading a team of primary engineers providing project engineering and technical support in the delivery of transmission substations and lines projects. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing technical expertise across all projects
• Ensuring the team develops scopes and specifications for designs and manages and reviews the production of all documentation/ project deliverables by Design Delivery Partners.
• Reviewing and assessing brownfield and greenfield electricity substation designs, providing technical input into staging, constructability, operability, maintainability and safety in design
• Monitoring and managing the timely delivery of high-quality designs and primary deliverables, ensuring appropriate processes are established to ensure high quality electrical designs
• Applying technical engineering knowledge to ensure efficient solutions can be reached by the team on complex design projects
• Supervising and leading team on projects and provide technical guidance and support in relation to complex problems by applying primary electrical technical knowledge, skills and judgement to achieve outcomes
• Management of budget and forecast within guidelines
• Lead, coach and mentor personnel within the team and share knowledge and develop the teams experience and expertise
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with key internal stakeholders and Design Delivery Partners
• Proactively engage with Project Managers to report design progress and resolve primary related design and engineering issues

 About you

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

• Deep technical knowledge and experience in the field of primary engineering, particularly electrical design of substations and transmission lines
• Understand current and emerging network and non-network solutions required to reduce network demand and avoid/deferred network investment. ​
• Advanced commercial acumen, stakeholder engagement and understanding of network constraints to identify appropriate solutions to address the needs of the network and customers. ​
• Ability to lead a successful engineering team and ability to develop, coach, mentor, empower and support colleagues and team members to achieve common goals
• Detailed understanding of project lifecycles and application of engineering principals with extensive design and construction knowledge covering performance, functionality, operation, maintenance and risks
• Proven ability to build and grow relationships and partnerships across divisions within Ausnet as well as with external suppliers, customers and regulatory bodies

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply now!

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!