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Senior primary design engineer

Perth
UGL
Design
Posted: 4 June
Offer description

UGL Utilities team designs, constructs and maintains critical infrastructure across the power, water and renewable sectors. Ranging from HV Substations and Transmission Lines up to 500kV to power stations and wastewater treatment plants. We design and construct the following assets: substations, transmission lines, power generation, electrical distribution networks, water and waste water treatment plants and water pipelines.

About the role

Flexibility for this role to be based in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth or Melbourne.

With major projects in tender, UGL is set to expand our team. There is an opportunity for you to focus on the technical or move into people management if that's where your passion lies. Career enhancing opportunity for you to be at the forefront of major projects in 500 KV substation and transmission lines.

Provide conceptual and detailed design of HV Substations, Transmission Line, BESS, solar and wind farms. Develop specifications and interface with management on design issues.

Key responsibilities

Substation Configuration and Busbar Config (Single, double, 1.5CB scheme, etc ...)

Plant layouts, sections, and details

Busbars and Connections (Fittings, Busbar Selection (Rigid, Strung), S/C Forces, Gantry forces, Sags/ Tension/ Deflection, Arrangement)

Clearances and Layouts (Safety, Fire, Transportation and Maintenance)

Underground Services (Trenches/ Conduits/Cable routes capacity)

Earthing design (Fundamentals, Soil/ Grid Testing, Current Splits)

Solid understanding of HV equipment/Buildings specification and technical particulars.

BESS, Solar and Wind farms and their requirements

HV cable design

Lightning protection

EMF and Corona study

Insulation Coordination (SA Selection / Insulation Selection)

Lighting design

Fair Knowledge on system planning, fault calculation, Power quality and Harmonics

Transposition / Impedance calculation

Insulators, Conductors and Fittings

Electrical Clearances

Earthing design

Lightning and Switching Performance / SA Selection / Insulator Selection

Noise Study

EMF and Corona Study

Low frequency Induction (LFI) Study

About You

* Minimum experience: 6 years Primary Design experience
* CPeng Status and 4 year degree qualification to Bachelor status in electrical engineering.
* Details understanding of HV cable design, Earthing design and lightning protection.
* Solid knowledge on insulation coordination, EMF and lighting design
* Professional level knowledge of Cymcap and CDEGS (MALZ/MALT/SESshield) design software
* Fair knowledge of EMTP, CDEGS (FCDIST, RESAP, HIFREQ, SPLITS), PVsyst.
* Sound knowledge of HV and Solar farm equipment specification and ability to investigate the requirements and develop specification from basic information.
* Basic understanding of secondary design aspects of HV plants, solar and wind farms.
* Solid understanding of the interface requirements of the civil/structural aspects of HV substants is an advantage
* Effectively communicate with CAD draughtspersons to optimise drawing output.

About UGL

As a member of the CIMIC Group of companies, we value diversity in our team's backgrounds, ideas, work styles.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds.

What we offer

* Benefit from 16 weeks of paid primary parental leave.
* Complimentary salary continuance insurance.
* Discounted Medibank health insurance.
* Shape your career with an Individual Development Plan.
* Participate in our Wellness Program with AIA Vitality.
* Access our OneRewards Discount Program.

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