AddressProtection Engineer – Shaping the Energy Future
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Beca is one of the largest employee-owned professional services consultancies in the Asia-Pacific region. Our team 4000-plus is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.
‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. With our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sitting at the heart of everything we do, reflecting the way we work every day with each other and our clients.
At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.
As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.
Join our growing Power team
Our Energy Future is being transformed by technological innovations that will deliver more sustainable outcomes, bringing greater energy security and affordability to energy businesses and communities.This role is to support the power team who work throughout Australasia on iconic projects that are Shaping the Energy transition journey to net-zero carbon emissions. We deliver innovative technical solutions to our high voltage power generation, transmission and distribution clients across Australasia.
The Opportunity
With a strong pipeline of exciting projects, our team is growing. We are looking for an experienced Protection Engineer (Power) based in Melbourne to bolster our delivery capability to deliver renewables projects as well high voltage substation designs to an enviable list of transmission and distribution clients. This opportunity will allow you to be involved in major energy transition projects in Australia and New Zealand alongside a high performing team.
In this role, the key responsibilities include:
- Protection & controls electrical design and protection settings of distribution, sub-transmission & transmission substations (up to 500 kV)
- Undertake fault studies as required to fulfil the above requirements utilising popular industry software packages
- Lead teams of engineers to undertake larger packages of work, including training and mentoring junior staff
- Provide Concept and Detailed design and review of protection schemes from high level R&I diagrams, detailed schematics, through to protection settings
- Maintaining expected current design standards as set by legislative requirements
- Carrying out quality checks and procedures
- Draw upon your own technical expertise, and those of the broader team to deliver high-quality technical advice to our client
- Contribute and drive delivery excellence across the Power team
- This is an interesting and varied role that will provide career growth and challenge and suit an enthusiastic individual willing to grow into a leader of an employee-owned business
What We’ll Like About You
Your design engineering skills are based on solid fundamentals and have been proven through the delivery of power engineering projects. You are experienced and have a passion for coaching and mentoring emerging engineers.
Preferably, you will have proven capability across a range of the following areas:
- Understanding of a range of engineering disciplines and experience in in electricity transmission and distribution projects
- A good background in secondary & protection design
- Have a good understanding of HV Power design and regulations, policies and procedures
- Understanding of design and operation of modern protection relay technology and substation automation and its application through to commissioning
Project management capabilities and project coordination, implementation and integration for complex systems
- Be organised, adaptable and able to think outside the box
- Have good interpersonal skills and manage stakeholder relationships
- Strong communicator; able to explain complex issues to a range of stakeholders (internal and external)
- Be results-oriented with good technical engineering basis in either transmission, distribution or rail traction power and managing project delivery
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering
Any consultancy experience is advantageous but not essential. We are looking for an engineer who along with the above skills, will further enhance our team culture.
Ready to Be involved. Be heard. Belong.? / Apply now
If you want to be part of the Beca story, apply online today. If you have questions, please reach out to Ju Liow (Talent Acquisition Business Partner) – *******@beca.com or can find out more about our people and projects by visiting www.beca.com
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