Senior Commissioning Lead - CopperString 2032

Position Details
Senior Commissioning Lead - CopperString 2032
Powerlink Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland > Bowen Hills, CopperString 2032 Project office
Permanent, Full Time
Eligibility: This position is open to internal and external applicants
Job Summary

• Gain new skills and knowledge in a Senior Commissioning specialist role that will set you and your career apart.
• Play your part in providing commissioning expertise to connect Queensland to a brighter, more sustainable future.
• Get stuck into interesting, cutting-edge projects you’ve never seen before and will help to deliver.

At Powerlink, every possibility starts with you
We believe life’s about possibilities. And so is the future.
That’s why we need you. As Senior Commissioning Lead for our CopperString 2032 project, you’ll help us connect Queensland to an even brighter and more sustainable future, providing high voltage electricity to over five million Queenslanders and 253,000 businesses. No matter your role, your work is about every light turned on. Its every community connected and every future made possible.
Together, we’re working at the heart of Queensland’s energy transformation. Now more than ever, we need people who want to help us deliver the new energy future and ensure we’re ready to tackle the challenge of our lives. Join us and make it happen.
CopperString 2032 is the largest ever economic development project in North Queensland, and one of the largest expansions to the power grid in Australia. The Copperstring project will increase the transmission capacity to 500kV and build 840 kilometres of transmission line from just south of Townsville in the Burdekin region to Mount Isa. This project will further unlock the renewable energy potential of this region.
We need your specialised engineering and commissioning management expertise in the development of high voltage transmission infrastructure to support the CopperString project delivery.
Find a career that matters and lasts
As our Senior Commissioning Lead you’ll use your expertise to ensure Operational Readiness of the CopperString 2032 Project and deliver a high level of commissioning services to the Project Team. You will use your specialised engineering and commissioning management expertise to develop clever solutions to interesting problems as you grow your skills every day. And you’ll do it with down-to-earth people who you’re proud to work with and get to know.
You will:

• Be our technical commissioning expert and act as the primary interface between the project team and our Joint Venture partners regarding the planning and execution for the commissioning of the CopperString project deliverables.
• Implement standard processes and procedures to plan commissioning of the Project.
• Contribute significantly to the Project Staging, Outage management and Project Management Plans to ensure that the Project is executed efficiently.
• Coach and mentor team members and internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide successful project outcomes through taking the lead, managing expectations and influencing multidisciplinary virtual teams (or workshops).
• Ensure all Project Technical Information, Documentation, Procedures, Drawings and training is up to date to allow timely commissioning and handover.
• Ensure all project deliverables are fit for purpose and able to be taken over, maintained and operated by Powerlink’s Operations and Service Delivery.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualification in Electrical Engineering (Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent recognised by Engineers Australia) alternatively combined with relevant applied industry experience a Bachelor of Technology or equivalent, or Advanced Diploma of Electrical Engineering.
• Significant relevant commissioning management experience in the development and delivery of high voltage transmission infrastructure projects.

We’d also need you to have demonstrated knowledge, experience and success in:

• Coaching and mentoring of technical professionals in the commissioning of HV infrastructure projects.
• Planning and organising detailed engineering projects including displaying specific transmission testing and commissioning experience for primary and secondary systems at transmission voltages.
• Leading the delivery of multiple complex commissioning (ideally HV) projects through development and application of outage plans, commissioning staging plans and principles.
• Safe systems of work, resulting in safe outcomes and/or performance improvement.
• Managing and leading a virtual project teams to ensure compliance with commissioning and testing standards and principles.
• Developing outage plans

Why Powerlink?
There’s lots to love about a career with Powerlink. But our people say there’s three things that really stand out:

• A career that matters and lasts: You’ll shape a progressive career providing commissioning expertise and connecting more than five million Queenslanders to a world-class, clean energy future.
• Unique work and the chance to grow: You’ll help find smart commissioning solutions to interesting problems as you develop your skills and impact every day.
• People who love to support and share: You’ll build relationships with experienced, down-to-earth people in a high performing project delivery team who you’ll be proud to work with.

Be the start of every possibility
There’s so much opportunity for you to grab here.
If you recognise yourself in the above opportunity, we would love to hear from you. Please click on the Apply button and enter your details and attach your resume. Applications close at Midnight, Monday 8 January 2024. Kindly be aware that the Recruitment team will commence the review process during this period.
This role will be part of a high performing CopperString 2032 project delivery team and will initially be based in our Copperstring project office in Bowen Hills. Going forward this position will be required to work from remote North Queensland construction sites to support the commissioning phases of the project.
For further information regarding this opportunity, please reach out directly to Klaas van Noord from our recruitment team at klaas.vannoord@powerlink.com.au.
At Powerlink, we are committed to ensuring our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and harness the unique talents, perspectives and experiences of all people.
Throughout the recruitment process, we provide support for candidates to ensure nobody is disadvantaged. Please tell us about any adjustments, support or access requirements that may help make the recruitment process more inclusive. You are also welcome to share your pronouns with us at any point throughout the process.