Senior Protection & Control Engineer (Secondary Design)

Overview

Senior engineer designing protection & control for substations and distribution networks.

Key Responsibilities

• autocad design
• process improvement
• engineering review
• substation design
• technical leadership
• client collaboration

Tasks

As a Protection and Control Engineer (Secondary Design), you’ll play a key role in delivering expert engineering support across the scoping, design, and estimation of substation projects. You’ll collaborate closely with both internal stakeholders and external clients to ensure technical excellence and alignment with project objectives. An opportunity to lead the technical development of the Secondary Design team, championing best-practice policies and procedures across distribution, sub-transmission, and transmission assets. Your contribution will be instrumental in driving quality outcomes, meeting critical milestones, and achieving strong financial performance for the business. -Review and continuously improve processes and systems to ensure high productivity, efficiency and quality outcomes, after considering all the relevant safety, technical, commercial, and environmental factors -Assist, develop and implement new technologies and innovative design practices and standards to meet business needs by applying technical expertise and experience. -Through understanding the market, customers and competitors, develop ideas and initiatives to enhance the capabilities of the design team and the company’s competitive position. -Design within AutoCAD and deliver solutions to complex problems or large projects applying engineering principles to create better outcomes that meet Network Services, its clients, and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. -Monitors, review and approve engineering solutions and proposals by others, as well as manufacturer supplied drawings, in accordance with agreed standards. -Provide effective specialist engineering design and advice in relation to the design of terminal substations, industrial substations and distributed generation network connections to a variety of standards, and in accordance with the relevant technical manuals, OH&S Act, ‘Safety in Design’ guidelines and customer requirements -Defines complex issues with ambiguous information, provide technical expertise and mentoring to design personnel and stimulates critical thinking to solve complex problems. -Assess Network Services capabilities and identify opportunities, as well as actively engaging with the Design Leadership team to develop a collaborative and agile mindset and support peers. -Synthesizes various considerations to makes tough decisions, striking a balance with trade-offs and pushing for better solutions to move forward

Requirements

• professional engineer
• iec61850
• digsilent
• protection relays
• 10 years
• senior engineer

What You Bring

We’re expanding our Network Services team and currently have two exciting opportunities available for experienced Senior Protection and Control Engineers (Secondary Design) based in Melbourne. These are full-time, permanent roles created to support a wave of new substation projects across our portfolio. Relocation assistance is available for suitable candidates. To be successful in this role, you will ideally possess We’re looking for individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are passionate about engineering innovation. If you’re ready to take the lead on impactful infrastructure projects and grow your career with a forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you. -Extensive design and protection settings experience in the electrical utility industry. -Ability to develop technical based policies and procedures relating to design, and implement change as required -Registration as a Professional Engineer in Australia -Detailed knowledge and understanding of regulatory requirements, OH&S Act, ‘Safety in Design’ guidelines, standards and codes. -RPEQ (Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland) is highly regarded but not essential -Detailed knowledge of new protection and control technologies such as the implementation of IEC61850 & SCADA and techniques based on on-the-job experience. -Ideally, you’ll bring around 10 years of experience in the power industry, including at least 2 years in a Senior Engineer capacity. -Holding or working towards obtaining National Engineering Registration (NER) -Expert design and compliance knowledge of protection and control systems in the electrical distribution and transmission networks in accordance with customer and Australian Standards. -Demonstrated experience in the use of complex numbers and symmetrical components for fault current analysis by hand (i.e. Excel) and computer software packages (e.g. DigSilent PowerFactory/PSSE/Sincal). -A Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) or equivalent qualification -Extensive experience in specifying and configuring protection relays from a range of major suppliers.

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Benefits

We believe in an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone feels safe, valued and respected. From offering great benefits to creating real opportunities for growth, we’re committed to supporting you, your career and wellbeing. It’s why our people stick around, whether you live in the city or across regional and rural Victoria, we’re doing the work where it matters most right in your own community. As Victorians electrify everything from homes to transport, we’re focused on ensuring our networks are ready to meet that demand. Understand how our benefits can support you. We offer a health and wellbeing subsidy (up to $600 per year), paid parental leave of up to 15 weeks for the primary carer, and more.

About Citipower And Powercor

-Roots in Melbourne, serving as Victoria’s electricity backbone through a vast network of poles, wires, and substations. -Operates across urban and regional areas, reflecting Victorian energy consolidation under Victoria Power Networks. -Financed by Cheung Kong Group and Spark Infrastructure, blending public-private ownership for stability and investment. -Typical projects include grid maintenance, public lighting, community battery trials, and smart EV charging integration. -Specializes in robust distribution infrastructure, utility-scale energy delivery, and integrating renewables into modern networks.

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