ABOUT US:

We’re a team that cares about you and your community. CitiPower and Powercor Australia is an essential service, supplying reliable, safe and affordable electricity vital for our customers and a clean energy future.
In designing and delivering these services, our people are united by a real sense of purpose to empower customer choices in ways that are important for our communities and the environment. Using advanced analytics, knowledge built through years of practical expertise, partnerships with leading researchers, and the courage to experiment, our people are proud to be disruptive influencers amongst the electricity industry.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We currently have a unique opportunity within our Network Planning, Customer Planning & Power Quality team for an experienced customer focussed engineer to join our business in a permeant full time capacity based at our CBD head office.
Working alongside other Engineers and Technical Officers, this role plans for our customers energy future by preparing the networks for growth in Customer Energy Resources. You will have a key focus on responding to customer power quality issues and ensure that constraints affecting our customers network experience are resolved timely and efficiently. Success in this role requires strong communication skills to negotiate win-win solutions with our customers and an ability to communicate complex electrical issues in plain language.
This is an exciting and incredibly rare opportunity for a candidate who is passionate about the Energy Transition to really make your mark in a growing team and be involved with multiple projects across the business. This is a role where you will truly engage and empower the communities we operate in!

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE YOU’LL HAVE:

• Degree qualification in Electrical Engineering
• Eligible and working towards one of the following (or already registered):
• National Engineering Registration (NER)
• Registered Professional Engineer of Professional Australia (RPEng)
• Understanding of technical impacts of Customer Energy Resources (Solar PV, Electric Vehicles, batteries) on customer power quality
• Knowledge of relevant Australian Standards, National Electricity Rules, and the Victorian Electricity Distribution Code of Practice
• Ability to prepare business cases and strategic plans aligned to AER expenditure methodologies.
• Ability to know and utilise the right processes and systems to ensure activities are productive and efficient
• A customer focussed attitude with the ability to communicate with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
• Specific training in Power Quality assessments including Harmonics, Flicker, Voltage is advantageous.