Senior Electrical Engineer

at  Synergy AU

The time to join Synergy has never been more exciting because you’ll be helping us to deliver on our commitment towards becoming a net zero carbon emission business by 2050.
We are investing $3 billion in large-scale renewables development and creating unlimited opportunities for our people to contribute to the growth of innovative solutions in our operations as we invest. This is your chance to help us transform the energy industry and build a more sustainable future for Western Australia.
Synergy is proud to be Western Australia’s largest electricity generator and energy retailer. We deliver secure electricity to homes and businesses throughout the Southwest Interconnected System (SWIS) from Coral Bay in the north, to Kalgoorlie in the east, and to Esperance in the south
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The Senior Electrical Engineer is a newly created opportunity based at our Pinjar Power Station site. The purpose of the role is to provide engineering support to the site operations team and undertake Engineering assignments encompassing project management, design services, conceptual technical proposals, and cost estimates.
Take the lead role in the investigation of technical problems and recommend safe, reliable, efficient, and cost-effective solutions.
As the Senior Electrical Engineer, you will provide technical, and projects support to the gas turbines and distributed generation operating unit.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Investigate plant operating/performance problems, as reported by others or observed through frequent contact with the plant, devise and recommend or initiate solutions and analyse plant failures and perform root cause analysis.
• Ensure processes and procedures are developed and maintained to meet the statutory requirements for electrical and C&I installed plant and determine, review and approve electrical maintenance work scopes.
• Plan, supervise/coordinate or carry out activities, associated with manufacture, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance/repair of equipment and systems as required.
• Carry out technical inspection, prepare reports with recommendations and/or arrange necessary action and prepare/check/assess/coordinate designs, calculations, estimates, sketches, specifications/tenders, working drawings and schedules.
• Identify, develop and improve a comprehensive asset maintenance process, procedures and documentation for all Gas generation electrical and controls & instrumentation assets.