Title:  Senior Civil Structural Project Engineer

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.

A great opportunity has become available for a Senior Civil Structural Engineer to join us in our rapidly growing Transmission business!

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

About the role

This role will see you providing engineering and technical support in the delivery of transmission substations projects, with specialist knowledge on civil and structural engineering. You will work with internal stakeholders, and Design and Construction Delivery Partners.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Applying civil and structural technical engineering knowledge to ensure efficient solutions can be reached on complex design projects
• Developing scopes and specifications for design and construction.
• Reviewing and assessing brownfield and greenfield electricity substation designs, providing technical input into staging, constructability, operability, maintainability and safety in design covering:
  • Civil and structural design including layouts, detail drawings and calculations
  • Civil and structural studies and investigations including geotechnical, feature survey, GPR, soil contamination assessment and co-ordination for noise assessment, fire assessment, environmental assessment, etc
• Contributing to the development of scopes and estimates for Transmission substation projects ensuring cost effective and constructible business cases can be delivered
• Identifying opportunities to develop new or improved standards and to ensure the timely delivery of efficient solutions of complex technical engineering designs and standards, taking ownership of process improvement initiatives and development of new methods where necessary
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders and Design Service Providers
• Lead, coach and mentor personnel within the team and share knowledge and experience

 About you.

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

• Tertiary qualification in Civil/ Structural Engineering or similar 
• Detailed understanding of project lifecycles and application of engineering principals with extensive design and construction knowledge covering performance, functionality, operation, maintenance and risks
• Extensive experience working in electricity substations engineering or other similar infrastructure industries, project delivery and/or design role
• Demonstrated ability to develop, coach, mentor, empower and support colleagues and team members to achieve common goals
• Proven capability in development of concepts and/or delivery of designs
• 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!