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AECOM Senior/Principal Secondary System Engineer in Melbourne, Australia
Company Description
At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.
Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.
We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.
We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.
When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.
Job Description
AECOM’s Energy group are looking for a Senior/Principal Secondary Systems Engineer to work across a number of diverse and challenging projects in Transmission and Distribution. This role will allow a proven Engineer to utilise their electrical engineering knowledge and grow their career in Secondary System design.
The Role
The key purpose of this position is to provide electrical engineering support to the delivery of Transmission and Distribution projects. Typical activities include; detailed design, design reviews, detailed specifications, report writing, calculations and relay configuration.
More broadly, activities and expectations of the role will include, but are not restricted to the following:
Leading and undertaking a variety of roles including Design Engineer from developing, design and leading projects, alongside multidisciplinary Engineers.
Opportunity for career progression in specialised technical capability.
Accepting personal responsibility for the performance of assigned tasks, to be proactive and display initiative.
Adaptive approach to a ranging and diverse project portfolio, with differing clients and changing environments.
Working proactively as part of the broader Power team on a variety of utility network, infrastructure and rail projects including providing support to colleagues in other AECOM offices across the region and overseas.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you will be degree qualified in Electrical Engineering and ideally have proven experience, over 5 years or more, in secondary design and engineering. Demonstrated experience working in Secondary System design essential, with Victorian or South Australian utility network highly regarded.
Your ability to demonstrate commercial acumen and to develop to assist a client base, coupled with your coaching and mentoring of junior staff will be key selection criteria.
Evidence of technical competency and project leadership experience in Secondary System projects ;
Detailed knowledge of Secondary Systems and equipment;
Ability to work independently on projects in Protection and Control, while working closely with major client accounts;
Prior involvement in delivery of detail scope and specifications, detailed design, review sign off, report writing and relay configurations.
Proven understanding of sub-transmission and distribution system protection and control Australian Standards.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven experience in Victorian or South Australian utility network, highly desirable.
CPEng and/or RPEV certification, highly desirable.
Additional Information
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) recognises AECOM as taking a sophisticated, holistic approach to supporting women and men’s participation throughout our workplace.
We provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many benefits to ensure your professional development & wellbeing.
Flexible start and finish times, working from home and job share options;
Work from home equipment and assistance packages
State of the art, modern and contemporary offices;
Paid parental and partner leave;
Purchased additional annual leave + salary packaging;
Corporate Employee discounts from up to 400 retailers;
Wellbeing benefits eg. Vaccinations, health insurance discounts;
Employee stock purchase plans;
Study assistance;
Professional and technical development opportunities.
AECOM does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or recruitment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, AECOM explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of AECOM and in the absence of a signed Agreement, AECOM will not consider or agree to payment of any recruitment fee.
With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
Join us and let’s get started.
AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses. Find out more about our Australian Reconciliation Action Plan here: https://aecom.com/au/our-vision-for-reconciliation/
With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
Join us and let’s get started.
ReqID: J10080359
Business Line: Energy
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: ANZ
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid