Design Engineer

Overview

Design and support substation assets, ensuring safety, compliance, and engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• compliance
• technical support
• safety design
• network standards
• design management
• hardware selection

Tasks

-Ensure compliance with company and industry standards -Provide technical advice and support for substation assets -Apply safety-in-design principles across all projects -Assist in developing network standards and asset contingency plans -Manage consultants for conceptual and detailed design work -Collaborate on hardware and technology selection -Contribute to continuous improvement and performance delivery -Support procurement, commissioning, and resilience planning -Prepare and review detailed substation designs

Requirements

• communication
• contract management
• risk analysis
• electrical engineering
• power systems
• substation design

What You Bring

-Excellent communication and technical writing skills -Experience working with contractors and managing contractual arrangements -Analytical skills in risk management and root cause analysis -Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience -Strong understanding of power systems, protection, and control -3+ years of industry experience, ideally in substation design

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Benefits

-Life Insurance and group discounted medical insurance. -A friendly workplace where people are valued and appreciated. -Family-friendly events and discounted gym membership along with various retail discounts. -An in-house well-being programme, a peer support network (Kaitiaki) and EAP services. -Competitive remuneration.

About Northpower

-It blends ownership and contracting—running its own electricity and fibre networks while delivering engineering and construction services nationwide. -Financially robust, it sustains large-scale contracts with major utilities and returns profits to its consumer-owned trust. -Its projects range from substation upgrades and submarine cable installations to managing transmission lines and future-energy installations. -Specialising in transmission, distribution, fibre rollout, inspection solutions and grid‑scale solar, it tackles every layer of utility infrastructure. -Unusually, the company owns and operates one of the region’s oldest hydro stations and recently launched a portable data centre prototype.

Sector Specialisms

Security Clearance

-criminal history check -drug and alcohol testing -medical assessment