Beca Power & Energy – Senior Associate – Power Systems Engineering
Beca's Power business operates as a truly combined Asia Pacific business, with teams based in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Indonesia. Working collaboratively, our teams are passionate about renewable energy and the delivery of critical energy projects working across the full project lifecycle from scoping, detailed design through to procurement and construction support. Together they deliver large, complex energy and renewable projects across Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and HV Power services to key utilities, energy developers, major contractors for the commercial, industrial and infrastructure sectors. Further details available here: .
The Opportunity
Be part of an international team of highly experienced electrical engineering specialists who together design and deliver a range of critical Power primary, substation and infrastructure related projects, based in Beca's Melbourne office. You will gain wide-ranging experience through leading and working on a variety of project types that differ in scale, scope, geography, site and client types throughout Australia and New Zealand. The complexity, variety and type of projects you will be working on will enable you to step change your Primary and Substation design abilities, while also providing you with the opportunity to work within, and learn from, some of the industry's leading Power engineers, designers and technical leaders.
Key role requirements include:
* Working with our Technical Directors and Principals providing critical design verification for highly specialised and complex primary engineering and substation related projects.
* Leading and completing and supporting design teams to prepare designs using industry and sector design tools considering a variety of site considerations, client requirements, standards, equipment specifications, cabling sizing, earthing design calculations, and safety standards.
* Coaching and mentoring the next generation of Power engineering expects empowering them, from graduate to Senior career levels, through on the job coaching.
* Providing subject matter support to Technical Development programs for Primary and Substation engineers.
* Support and provide input into client bidding and proposal preparation processes displaying commercial judgement in understanding design, project, task and project budgets.
* Support client management activities including bidding, and the preparation of project proposals.
Our design and project roles are busy, with multiple work projects, differing client deadlines and changing timeframes. Your ability to work across multiple workstreams managing your time and deliverables will be important, as will being able to adapt to changing project deliverables and timeframes. Updating stakeholders early and often, will be a key mantra that you work by, especially for those 'hard conversations' where project timelines are at risk of not being met.
You will be part of team of Beca's leading design experts working collaboratively to deliver best in class designs. Career development opportunities exist including moving across technical, design, technology, people, client or business leadership pathways.
About You
You will bring extensive experience in primary and substation design related projects, with a strong understanding of multidisciplinary engineering principles demonstrated through the successful delivery of complex projects. Your specialist technical engineering experience will focus on delivering high voltage substation designs, ensuring quality and accuracy while guiding others. You understand key steps for producing substation layouts, equipment lists, clearance checks, and HV cable designs, and are familiar with Australian and New Zealand regulations. Proficiency in CYMCAP, CDEGs, Autodesk SBS, Inventor, Navisworks, AutoCAD, and/or MicroStation is advantageous.
You are motivated to learn and grow within a team, managing multiple tasks with enthusiasm and a focus on outcomes. You excel in building credible relationships across functions and disciplines, collaborating effectively with clients, contractors, and community groups. You're passionate about learning, engaging, and supporting others, with a positive attitude and a good sense of humour.
A degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical subject will be required for this role. In addition, you will be working towards, or have met, the Registered Professional Engineering or Chartered Professional Engineer. Experience working in an engineering consultancy environment is advantageous for this role, however not essential.
You'll be a valued team member with opportunities to grow your career, contribute to the Power team's success. Our colleagues come from diverse backgrounds, including client, consultancy, design-build contractors, and industrial businesses. We invite applications from a broad range of backgrounds.
Who is Beca ?
Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals 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. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how 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.
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