Senior Field Engineer

About us

At United Energy, we’re proud to deliver electricity to 700,000 Victorian customers every day through our network of poles and wires. But more than that, we’re here to power communities, support local businesses and keep critical services running smoothly, we’re essential to them all – and none of this happens without our people. As Victorians electrify everything from homes to transport, we’re focused on ensuring our networks are ready to meet that demand. If you want to be part of something essential, be essential with us.

About the role

Reporting to the Field Services Manager, the Senior Field Engineer provides practical technical authority between engineering intent and field execution across UE’s distribution and sub-transmission assets. The role supports safe, efficient and high-quality delivery of maintenance, fault response, complex rectification and project works by providing field-based engineering judgement, constructability and maintainability advice, critical control verification, and rapid technical decision support.

The role acts as an independent UE technical escalation point for field delivery, working closely with Electricity Networks, Asset Management, Planning, Operations, HSE, project teams and service providers to ensure work is delivered to UE requirements, risks are understood and controlled, and learnings from field execution are fed back into standards, maintenance instructions, asset strategies and future programs.

Key responsibilities

• Provide clear, practical engineering guidance and leadership to colleagues and field teams to support safe and effective execution of works in primary and secondary network environments.
• Work collaboratively with Asset Management and field crews to: Develop, review, and improve maintenance instructions; Provide informed technical input into maintenance and project delivery decisions; and Resolve technical issues that impact productivity or delay field works.

• Support timely delivery by: Assisting with fault investigation and root cause analysis; and Enabling faster, well founded technical decisions during live issues and emergent works.

• Provide technical advice and support to the Substations and Underground Cable Planning function to assist with the development of robust, deliverable works programs.
• Identify, analyse, and communicate key network risks, hazards, and emerging trends to senior management, supporting informed decision making and continuous improvement.
• Provide independent field-based engineering leadership and technical assurance across maintenance, fault response, rectification and project delivery activities.

For more information on the role’s responsibilities, please click here to download the position description.

What you’ll need from day one

• Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s degree with experience in electrical power systems
• Registered Professional Engineer of Victoria / BLA registration in Electrical Engineering, or eligible and required to obtain within an agreed timeframe. CPEng/NER desirable.
• Strong practical knowledge of one or more areas including primary plant, secondary systems, protection/control, SCADA interfaces, diagnostic testing, commissioning principles and return-to-service requirements for distribution and sub-transmission assets.
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant power quality standards, measurement and solutions to mitigate non-conformances preferred.
• Knowledge of asset financial fundamentals in business decision-making such as cost-benefit analysis, NPV determination, life cycle-costing assessment
• Understanding of asset risk analysis techniques and risk management principles, appropriate technique selection / application and limitations
• Knowledge of asset failure investigation techniques to identify failure causes, contributing factors and improvement actions.

If you believe you have what it takes but don’t meet every requirement—or if you’d like to discuss flexible working arrangements to meet the key responsibilities —we encourage you to get in touch.

Key benefits

We’re proud to offer an inclusive, supportive workplace where everyone feels safe, valued, and empowered to grow. Some of our benefits include hybrid work options, purchased leave, 15 weeks of gender neutral primary parental leave, health and wellbeing subsidiary, career development and planning opportunities, and exclusive discounts. Visit our company website to learn more.

Diversity, equity & inclusion to support a fair workplace for all

We are committed to building a safe, inclusive, and supportive workplace where people of all genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities and ages are valued for who they are and empowered to do their best. Through our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy (DEI), Reconciliation Action Plans and initiatives like Women in Power and Sparkle, our LGBTQIA+ allies network, we’re working to create equal opportunities for all. We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for Women. Explore our partnership with Work180.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and strongly encourage First Peoples, women, people from the LGBTQIA+ community, culturally and racially marginalised people and people with disabilities to apply. We recognise how people from marginalised groups can face extra barriers and self-select out of recruitment processes.  With this in mind, we’re committed to making reasonable adjustments to ensure a positive, barrier-free recruitment process.

What’s next

Submit your application via our careers’ website by 26 August 2026. To make a confidential reasonable adjustment query, please contact Nadya Kartika from the Talent team at careers@powercor.com.au