Title:  Project Engineer

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.

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

We’re seeking a Project Engineer to help deliver large-scale, complex infrastructure projects—on time, within budget, and to the highest standards. In this role, you’ll ensure projects meet all safety, environmental, community, and construction expectations while aligning with approved scope, timeframes, and cost metrics.
 

You’ll play a key role in supporting the Senior Project Manager with planning, forecasting, reporting, and overseeing the delivery of power infrastructure projects, with a strong focus on transmission network infrastructure.
 

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the growth of our business portfolio and be part of the team leading the transition to a renewable energy future.
 

This position offers a 3/2 hybrid split between office (Southbank) and work-from-home , and the role requires travel to high voltage infrastructure construction sites in metro and regional area’s.
 

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

• Assist project managers with materials procurement and tracking
• Coordinate with design delivery partners for timely and quality delivery of construction designs
• Manage engineering aspects and troubleshoot problems during the delivery of projects to derive efficient and effective solutions
• Contributes to the assessment and management of project and network risks and opportunities, including ensuring project constructability, operability, and maintainability with the aim to improving overall project delivery safety and productivity performance.
• Provision of insights into value engineering, risk assessment and lessons learnt workshops in support of the continuous improvement of project management processes
• Management of project and delivery partner quality assurance and compliance to agreed Quality standards
• Contribute to pre-contracts project development phase including interpreting the needs, expectations and limitations of customers’ and stakeholders’ requirements to produce commercially competitive proposals
   

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

• License requirements: Victorian Driver’s License is essential.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
• Preferred Professional body membership: Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng)
• Medium to high voltage power sector projects
• PowerBI, Project or Primavera
• SAP
• Construction White Card
• First Aid and CPR Course
• Understanding of safe work methods and ability to review them

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.