Title:  Senior Project Engineer

• Energy Leader > Sustainable Future  
• Travel across Victoria and work in the great outdoors
• 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’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.

This role will see you developing front end engineering solutions and/or delivering detailed designs for substations and lines projects across the Projects portfolio.

You will work with internal stakeholders, and Design and Installation Service Providers to ensure projects are delivered in a cost-efficient way and to high standards of quality.

With a Hybrid split (Office/WFH), this role is based in our Southbank office, with occasional site visits also required and is part of the Engineering Solutions, Network Operations and Delivery team.

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

• Provide technical support into Customer and Company initiated projects across AusNet’s Electricity distribution network
• Apply technical engineering knowledge to ensure efficient solutions can be reached on complex design projects
• Develop and/or review scopes, detailed design and installation scope of works.
• Provide technical input into staging, constructability, operability and maintainability (COM) and safety in design reviews.
• Identify opportunities to develop new, and update existing engineering standards
• Contribute to the development of scopes and estimates for Distribution network projects ensuring cost effective and constructible business cases can be delivered, including:
  • Supporting the development of project schedules and risk registers
  • Providing engineering input into commercial offers on customer offers
• Contribute to the timely delivery of design projects working closely with Ausnet Project Manager and Design Service Providers, including:
  • Contributing to design tender processes and contract award decision making
  • Monitoring design progress and design quality
• Be a Subject Matter Expert in the field of Project Engineering, as well as your Engineering discipline of experience

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

• Tertiary qualification in Electrical Engineering or similar
• Detailed technical knowledge and extensive experience in electricity networks engineering
• Simplify complex engineering analysis for non-engineers (eg summarising key decision-making during delivery of detailed design)
• 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 substation or lines engineering, project delivery and/or design role
• Primary substation design experience, having worked on Zone-Substation/Terminal station augmentation projects ranging from 22KV and above.
• Strong understanding of regulatory environment that AusNet operates within
• 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

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.