Associate - Power Engineering

Join our Power Team

Primary Power Engineer

Our Power team works throughout Australasia on high-value projects from traditional high voltage power transmission to infrastructure, industrial projects with many energy sector clients. We've honed our skills over many years providing solutions to our power generation, renewables, transmission and distribution clients across Australasia. We offer the opportunity to work on both small- and large-scale projects as part of a strong established team.

The Opportunity

You will be a key member of a dynamic, collaborative and engaging team! With a strong pipeline of work, our team is growing, we are looking for an experienced HV Design/Primary Engineer to continue to grow and shape the success of our Power team. In this Melbourne or Sydney based role you will:

• Lead the technical delivery of Primary/HV projects from feasibility, concept designs, detail designs and owner's engineer
• Develop, mentor and lead junior engineers
• Lead the primary design of high voltage substations and other related infrastructure
• Work in collaboration with engineering and project teams to deliver timely and accurate documentation and reports
• Lead teams of engineers to undertake larger packages of work, including training and mentoring junior staff
• Provide Concept and Detailed design and review of specifications, drawings etc
• Maintaining expected current design standards as set by legislative requirements
• Carrying out quality checks and procedures
• Draw upon your own technical expertise, and those of the broader team to deliver high-quality technical advice to our client

• Contribute in a team environment and drive delivery excellence across the Power team
• Play a supporting role and contribute to strategic bids and tenders in future energy across ANZ and support cross business line activities

This exciting opportunity will bring a mix of your technical expertise and your design engineering and project management experience to deliver successful client outcomes.

This is an interesting and varied role that will provide career growth and challenge.

What We'll Like About You

You are a confident and capable senior engineer who is looking to be part of a growing team, passionate to work on iconic projects and seeking to enhance your career.

Your technical skills are based on solid fundamentals and have been proven through the delivery of robust and innovative power engineering projects and designs. You experience and are comfortable leading teams and mentoring junior engineers. You will also have varied Electrical Engineering skills which will allow you to contribute to the power business in a broader sense.

Preferably, you will have proven capability across a range of the following areas:

• Understanding of a range of engineering disciplines and experience in electricity transmission, distribution and traction power projects
• Have experience within substation primary engineering position across HV/EHV substations design (up to 500kV ideally)
• Ideally have experience in use of engineering software in the design
• Understanding of design and how it impacts on construction
• Be organised, adaptable and able to think outside the box
• Have well-developed interpersonal skills and manage stakeholder relationships being an excellent communicator; able to explain complex issues to a range of stakeholders (internal and external)
• Be results-oriented with good technical engineering basis in either transmission, distribution or rail traction power and managing project delivery
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering

What We Offer:

A career with Beca will provide you with:

Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.

Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive, and you can bring your whole self to work. You may also have the chance to take advantage of our unique shareholder opportunities, sharing in our collective success.

Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.

Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority! Benefit from continuous learning and professional development through our company training programs and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to unlock your career potential.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

Who is Beca? Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4300 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.