Geebung - South East Queensland
- Powering your life: Market-leading salaries | Yearly EBA increases More time for you: Healthy work-life balance | 9 or 10-day fortnight roster
**Your future is Energy Queensland**
Energy Queensland, and our operational brands: Energex, Ergon Energy Network, Ergon Retail and Yurika, are at the frontline of progress. As Australia's largest government-owned electricity organisation, we serve people and communities across the state and beyond.?
Here, you'll help us deliver reliable energy solutions for our two million customers.
Join us as a **Standards Laboratory Technician** and you'll be part of a team that keeps Queensland connected and powers communities every day.
**Your opportunity**
As a Standards Laboratory Technician, you work as part of a highly specialised team dedicated to delivering high precision calibration services for our field teams and external customers. EQL's Instrument and Standards Laboratory operates as a NATA accredited reference calibration lab, setting the benchmark for precision with an industry-leading facility that ensures quality, traceable measurements and equipment safety across the entire energy network.
Day to day, you focus on performing high-precision calibrations, ensuring the accuracy of instruments that keep our energy network running smoothly. From fine tuning calibrating reference standards to verifying measurement equipment, you handle some of the most technically complex calibrations in the industry.
Here's how you'll do it:
- Calibrating high-precision electrical, temperature, humidity and frequency reference instruments to exacting standards and internationally accepted methodologies.
- Developing and automating calibration processes, using proprietary Fluke metrology software, along with coding languages such as C++ and VBA, to improve efficiency and quality.
- Reviewing and critically analysing calibration results, ensuring they comply with accreditation standards.
- Investigating and solving intricate measurement challenges, troubleshooting faults, and refining procedures to comply with industry-leading standards.
- Providing expert advice to field teams and external customers, clearly explaining technical calibration processes and results.
- Issuing formal calibration reports and legal verification certificates as an Authorised Signatory.
- Mentoring and supporting colleagues, sharing your expertise to strengthen the team's capabilities and improve laboratory processes.
Your role is built on technical expertise, but it's equally about continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration. Whether you're refining automation programs, enhancing calibration accuracy, or ensuring compliance with national and international standards, you're key in upholding EQL's commitment to quality and precision.
The remuneration for your new role is:
- From **$159,651 to $169,514**per annum + **14.75%** superannuation _(9-day fortnight)_.
- From **$180,406 to $191,550** per annum +** 14.75%** superannuation _(10-day fortnight)_.
**What's on offer?**
At Energy Queensland, we believe in supporting every aspect of your career and personal life. Here's what you can expect:
- **Feel protected and supported**: A safety-first culture and access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program.
- ** Get paid to play**: Annual leave loading and salary sacrificing means more spending money in your pocket.
- ** Grow as you go**: Opportunities to develop professionally through training, leadership programs and full access to LinkedIn Learning.
**What you'll bring**:
You're a **technically minded problem-solver** with a **background in electronics**, **instrumentation**, **or automation**, and you **thrive in an environment where precision and accuracy are key**.
Specifically, we're looking for:
- An Advanced Diploma in Electrical or Electronic Engineering (or equivalent).
- A Queensland Electrical Work Licence as an Electrical Fitter Mechanic **or** Restricted Electrical Work Licence (or the ability to obtain one).
- Experience in electronics, fault-finding, and diagnostics, with a solid understanding of and experience in calibration methodologies within the fields of electrical, temperature, humidity, and frequency/time interval.
- Programming skills (Fluke MET/CAL and MET/TEAM, C++, VBA, LabVIEW, or similar), with the ability to automate calibration processes.
- A strong understanding of quality standards (AS/ISO/IEC-17025 and ISO 9001), with a quality focus and commitment to following procedures to ensure compliance.
- The ability to work in a team, solving problems collaboratively, supporting each other through effective communication and respectful interactions.
- Highly developed communication skillset and a strong customer focus with the ability to communicate well with a range of different customer types.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
Formal metrology training is advantageous but not essential. Experience in conducting temperature and humidit
📌 Standards Laboratory Technician
🏢 Energy Queensland
📍 Brisbane