ABOUT US

At CitiPower and Powercor, we’re proud to deliver electricity to 1.3 million Victorian customers every day through our network of poles and wires. But more than that, we’re here to power communities, support local businesses and keep critical services running smoothly, we’re essential to them all – and none of this happens without our people.
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.
If you want to be part of something essential, be essential with us.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Design Engineer (Secondary), you’ll play a key leadership role within our Network Services team, providing expert engineering guidance across the scoping, design, and estimation of substation projects for both internal and external clients.
You’ll lead the technical development of the Secondary Design team, driving excellence through the implementation of best-practice policies and procedures across distribution, sub-transmission, and transmission assets. Your contribution will be critical to the timely and successful delivery of projects, helping us meet key milestones and achieve strong financial outcomes for the business.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide effective specialist engineering design and advice in relation to the design of zone 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
• 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
• Monitors, review and approve engineering solutions and proposals by others, as well as manufacturer supplied drawings, in accordance with agreed standards.
• 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. \
• Defines complex issues with ambiguous information, provide technical expertise and mentoring to design personnel and stimulates critical thinking to solve complex problems.
• Synthesizes various considerations to makes tough decisions, striking a balance with trade-offs and pushing for better solutions to move forward
• Ability to develop technical based policies and procedures relating to design, and implement change as required
• 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.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL IDEALLY POSSESS:

• A Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) or equivalent qualification
• Registration as a Professional Engineer with the Business Licensing Authority (BLA)
• Recognition as a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) or holding National Engineering Registration (NER)
• Accreditation as a Registered Professional Engineer of Victoria (RPEV)
• RPEQ (Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland) is highly regarded but not essential