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Job Description
Our Energy Team in Sydney have created an exciting opportunity for a ‘Principal Primary System Engineer’ within our ‘Transmission and Distribution’ team.
The person appointed will be responsible to work with and across a strong Transmission and Distribution Team and to provide the appropriate business development, technical support, and deliver quality project outcomes on time and on-budget delivery.
This position requires you to be responsible for the development of the substation HV system, specifications, and interface with other disciplines on design issues across the substation configuration, equipment rating, and layout, earthing, insulation coordination, HV cables, and conduit designs.
You will be given the unique opportunity to work with one of our key clients who are about to embark on an ambitious major transmission works program of a scale not seen in the Australian electricity sector in many decades.
Qualifications

As a ‘Principal Primary System Engineer’ within our Energy Team, you will possess some of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
• Have strong experience within a senior substation primary engineering position across HV/EHV substations design (up to 500kV ideally)
• Project experience in NSW, Solar farm / Windfarm connection substation experience. OEPM experience on substation will be ideal.
• Ideally have experience in use of engineering software in the design, including fault level analysis, short circuit forces, cable current ratings, insulation coordination, lighting Lux, earthing, EMF, etc.

Additional Information

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