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When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together, making Real. Progress
At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.
Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.
Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.
As a Technical Specialist in Transmission Line Construction, you’ll play a hands-on leadership role ensuring the safe, high-quality delivery of AusNet’s transmission infrastructure projects. Drawing on your field experience and technical expertise, you’ll work closely with delivery partners, climb towers, assess quality and safety, and influence outcomes that matter.
This role bridges field knowledge with strategic oversight—supporting innovation, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring our construction standards meet the highest expectations. You’ll be on the road, in the field, and at the heart of shaping how we build the future of energy.
With a Hybrid split (Office/WFH), this role a permanent full-time position and can be located in one of our depots in Victoria and is part of the Transmission team. This role will require travel, and you'll be on the road as part of your responsibilities.
This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:
* Reviewing business cases
* Conducting technical tender reviews for delivery partners
* Providing design input for constructability and timelines
* Performing preconstruction site reviews and inspections, including documenting the work area for scope input
* Ensuring quality aligns with the design and Transmission Lines Design Manual (SDM)
* Verifying that the delivery partner complies with site access and security requirements
* Advising the delivery partner on site setup and installation, following Work Safe guidelines and the SDM
You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:
* Experience in Transmission Lines Construction
* Hold a Cert III in Transmission Lines or equivalent with barehand/hot stick experience
* Can meet deadlines and know when to escalate issues
* Skilled in prioritising and planning tasks
* Proactive and able to work independently
* Dedicated to the safety of both the community and employees involved in providing services
Emergency Response:Customers and community are at the heart of everything we do. From time-to-time you may be called upon to support an emergency response (e.g. storms, bushfires, floods) to ensure we continue to safely deliver our customers’ energy needs.
A real place to belong.
We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.
We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:
* Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
* Leave:more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
* Community giving:a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
* Perks:we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.
As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.
So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.