Title:  Group Leader - Project Development

• Join us during an exciting period of growth > Utilise your technical leadership skills
• Lead successful development of company & customer-initiated projects across our Electricity Transmission networks
• Careers with Purpose > Collaborative > Inclusive > Flexible Work Environment

When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together, making Real Progress.

At AusNet, we play a key role in the clean energy transition and in 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.

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

This role will see you leading and supporting the successful development of company and customer-initiated projects, ensuring all aspects of scope, cost, schedule, risk, constructability, commercial and lessons learnt have been considered on each individual project.

You will work with internal and external stakeholders including customers, ensuring project development activities are delivered on time and that all projects are established with clarity that will enable successful delivery.

With a hybrid split (Office/WFH)), this role is based in Southbank, Melbourne and is part of our Project Development (Delivery) team within our Transmission line of business.

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

• Lead the delivery of project development activities to ensure on time completion
• Provide project development leadership on Customer and Company initiated projects across AusNet’s Electricity transmission networks
• Apply project delivery knowledge to ensure efficient solutions can be reached on complex projects
• Contribute to the development of scopes and estimates for Transmission networks projects, ensuring cost effective and constructible business cases can be delivered
• Provide input into staging, constructability, operability, and maintainability (COM) reviews
• Responsible for the development of project schedules during project development phase
• Provide scheduling support to the Strategic Planning and Performance team
• Directing and leading project managers and estimators through project concept design development
• Be a Subject Matter Expert in the field of Project Development and Project Management
• Support Transmission Delivery teams by providing mentoring, informal training, and support to less experienced team members

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

• Detailed technical knowledge and extensive experience in electricity networks engineering
• Ability to simplify complex engineering analysis for non-engineers
• Detailed understanding of project lifecycles and application of engineering principals with extensive design and construction knowledge covering performance, functionality, operation, maintenance and risks
• Tertiary qualification in Electrical/Civil/Structural Engineering or similar
• Extensive experience working in substation or lines engineering, project delivery &/or design role
• Proven project team leadership skills
• Proven capability in development of concepts &/or delivery of designs

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!

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