Engineer - Protection Design
at Transpower
Auckland City, Auckland, New Zealand -
| Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immediate | 05 Feb, 2025 | Not Specified | 06 Nov, 2024 | 2 year(s) or above | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
- Join a supportive team and enjoy varied mahi, collaboration, and learning
- Work on new-build and brown-field protection design projects end-to-end
- Help enable the New Zealand Transmission Grid of the future!
Bring your protection design experience to the heart of the electricity sector. Dynamic work, great benefits, and professional development.
Transpower owns and operates New Zealand’s National Grid; the unique High Voltage transmission network connecting areas of generation with towns and cities across New Zealand. The National Grid is connected by HVDC between our two main islands, with a large amount of renewable energy generated in the South and a growing load requirement in the North.
At the heart of the electricity sector, Transpower proactively plans for the grid of the future that will connect new renewable energy projects and enable the transition to a net-zero carbon economy. Enquiries to connect to the Grid from generators, distributors, and end-users have doubled in the past three years, so we have an exciting pipeline of work.
Our Tactical Engineering and Estimation Group provides the engineering support and expertise to planning, investigations, and project delivery functions within Grid Development, and ensures that Transpower’s objectives are met.
Responsibilities:
- Engineering and asset management investigations, design, project support, technical specifications, and cost estimation covering high voltage electricity transmission, specifically Protection & Automation, and supporting primary systems with a capital value of $700-$800m pa.
- Managing a range of technical controlled documents that include technical policies, design standards, standard designs, service, and purchase specifications.
- Innovations, including new equipment and alternative designs, which will be studied and implemented by the team to meet the demands of a quickly developing energy market as we move towards a more sustainable energy future. The team oversees quality, cost-effective engineering design by our consulting partners.
- Providing solutions which also consider the needs of the Substations, Transmission Lines, Asset Planning, and Operations teams
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:2.0Max:7.0 year(s)
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Engineering Design / R&D
Other
Graduate
Proficient
1
Auckland City, Auckland, New Zealand
