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Job Description
Due to recent project wins, our Energy Team in Sydney have created an opportunity for a ‘Senior Technical Officer’ to join the Digital Engineering team.
Put your career into high gear, in this opportunity to join a Fortune 500 organisation where you can thrive, fully leverage your strengths, feel heard, and contribute to AECOM’s mission to build a better world.
This role within our Energy end-market provides design documentation delivery solutions to a broad range of energy and power authority sector and renewables projects, across many clients.

Some of your day-to-day tasks will include:

• Be drafting lead for substation projects. Coordinating all discipline such and primary, secondary, transmission line, civil, & structural to meet milestone deliverables.
• Work as part of a team producing substation design drawings using CAD software’s AutoCAD and Microstation in accordance with client standards.
• Experience in using common data environment such as ProjectWise or BIM360.
• Electrical design models and drawings including substation layouts and sections for equipment and associated utilities, set outs, single line diagrams, secondary schematics.
• Complete drafting reviews on design drawings prepared by others in the team
• Mentor/support juniors in the drafting team and wider Energy team.
• Working co-operatively with team members whilst liaising with engineers and drafters (both locally and internationally) to ensure timely delivery of design deliverables.
• Maintain, developing, and retaining the highest standard of technical design skills

Qualifications

As a Senior Technical Officer, you will possess the following:

• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant working experience.
• Demonstrated experience in design drafting for HV and / or traction substations.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to develop concept designs to meet industry standards from scratch with minimum supervision, ensuring innovation and safety is at the forefront of all early discussions.
• Drive to contribute to digital transformation for 3D modelling and digital twin.

Additional Information

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• Be drafting lead for substation projects. Coordinating all discipline such and primary, secondary, transmission line, civil, & structural to meet milestone deliverables.
• Work as part of a team producing substation design drawings using CAD software’s AutoCAD and Microstation in accordance with client standards.
• Experience in using common data environment such as ProjectWise or BIM360.
• Electrical design models and drawings including substation layouts and sections for equipment and associated utilities, set outs, single line diagrams, secondary schematics.
• Complete drafting reviews on design drawings prepared by others in the team
• Mentor/support juniors in the drafting team and wider Energy team.
• Working co-operatively with team members whilst liaising with engineers and drafters (both locally and internationally) to ensure timely delivery of design deliverables.
• Maintain, developing, and retaining the highest standard of technical design skill