Senior Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer – Max Term/Permanent – Perth CBD

We are currently seeking a Senior Project Engineer to join our Engineering & Design team on a max-term or permanent basis. This is an immediate opportunity, with the potential for additional positions in the near future within this area.

Be part of an innovative and dynamic team driving exciting projects that focus on customer decarbonisation. As a Senior Project Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, cost-effective designs while using integrated, optimised engineering and project management techniques. Your expertise will help ensure efficient project execution and advance Western Power’s commitment to sustainability and innovation.

Your Role in Action  

• Effectively manage safety-in-design risk to as low as reasonably practicable, through the active use of safety-in-design principles and practices and in line with Western Power’s Electricity Network Safety Management System
• Lead, from a technical perspective, engineering professionals to provide a coordinated design service
• Accountable for ensuring that project scope is fit-for-purpose; negotiate, set, and monitor design project performance (cost, quality, time, risk, resources)
• Manage design regulatory and legislative compliance, reporting non-compliances where necessary
• Relentlessly drive continuous improvement, utilisation of standard designs (and updating thereof) to achieve sustained delivered value, while seamlessly contributing to the overall business
• Manage own performance to improve personal effectiveness, while proactively providing technical guidance and coaching to design engineers
• Where design work is outsourced, undertake contract management of outsourced design contractors against established frameworks. Identify contractor technical areas for improvement and contribute to development and coaching of design contractors

 What Makes You a Great Fit 

• A degree in an engineering discipline
• Eligibility for corporate membership of the Institution of Engineers Australia
• Extensive and broad engineering experience and expertise, preferably in electricity transmission design in an electricity utility or design consulting environment
• Project management experience in a utility, design consulting, or industrial environment
• Sound understanding of the interactions of related disciplines impacting on transmission substation and lines design, including civil/structural issues, environmental issues, and safety issues.
• Experience of best practice project management and work management processes
• Demonstrated technical leadership and technical coaching experience.
• Sound understanding of risk management and its application to safety-in-design

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including: 

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.  
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.   
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy two wellness leave days each year.
• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.

• On-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day.

Applications close on 14^th March 2025

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Find out more about our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

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