Senior Protection & Control Engineer

About us

At CitiPower and Powercor, we’re proud to deliver electricity to 1.2 million 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.

We believe in an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone feels safe, valued and respected. From offering great benefits to creating real opportunities for growth, we’re committed to supporting you, your career and wellbeing. It’s why our people stick around, whether you live in the city or across regional and rural Victoria, we’re doing the work where it matters most - right in your own community. 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

We’re expanding our Network Services team and currently have an exciting opportunity available for experienced Senior Protection and Control Engineers (Secondary Design). These are full-time, permanent roles created to support a wave of new substation projects across our portfolio.

As a Protection and Control Engineer (Secondary Design), you’ll play a key role in delivering expert engineering support across the scoping, design, and estimation of substation projects. You’ll collaborate closely with both internal stakeholders and external clients to ensure technical excellence and alignment with project objectives.

An opportunity to lead the technical development of the Secondary Design team, championing best-practice policies and procedures across distribution, sub-transmission, and transmission assets. Your contribution will be instrumental in driving quality outcomes, meeting critical milestones, and achieving strong financial performance for the business.

We’re looking for individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are passionate about engineering innovation. If you’re ready to take the lead on impactful infrastructure projects and grow your career with a forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide effective specialist engineering design and advice in relation to the design of terminal substations, industrial substations and distributed generation network connections to a variety of standards, and in accordance with the relevant technical manuals, OH&S Act, ‘Safety in Design’ guidelines and customer requirements
• Review and continuously improve processes and systems to ensure high productivity, efficiency and quality outcomes, after considering all the relevant safety, technical, commercial, and environmental factors
• Monitors, review and approve engineering solutions and proposals by others, as well as manufacturer supplied drawings, in accordance with agreed standards.
• Assist, develop and implement new technologies and innovative design practices and standards to meet business needs by applying technical expertise and experience.
• Through understanding the market, customers and competitors, develop ideas and initiatives to enhance the capabilities of the design team and the company’s competitive position.
• Defines complex issues with ambiguous information, provide technical expertise and mentoring to design personnel and stimulates critical thinking to solve complex problems.
• Synthesizes various considerations to makes tough decisions, striking a balance with trade-offs and pushing for better solutions to move forward
• Ability to develop technical based policies and procedures relating to design, and implement change as required
• Assess Network Services capabilities and identify opportunities, as well as actively engaging with the Design Leadership team to develop a collaborative and agile mindset and support peers.

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

Key Criteria

• Design within AutoCAD and deliver solutions to complex problems or large projects applying engineering principles to create better outcomes that meet Network Services, its clients, and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Detailed knowledge of new protection and control technologies such as the implementation of IEC61850 & SCADA and techniques based on on-the-job experience.
• Demonstrated experience in the use of complex numbers and symmetrical components for fault current analysis by hand (i.e. Excel) and computer software packages (e.g. DigSilent PowerFactory/PSSE/Sincal).
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of regulatory requirements, OH&S Act, ‘Safety in Design’ guidelines, standards and codes.
• Extensive design and protection settings experience in the electrical utility industry.
• Expert design and compliance knowledge of protection and control systems in the electrical distribution and transmission networks in accordance with customer and Australian Standards.
• Extensive experience in specifying and configuring protection relays from a range of major suppliers.
• Ideally, you’ll bring around 10 years of experience in the power industry, including at least 2 years in a Senior Engineer capacity. 

To be successful in this role, you will ideally possess:

• A Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) or equivalent qualification
• Registration as a Professional Engineer in Australia
• Holding or working towards obtaining National Engineering Registration (NER)
• RPEQ (Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland) is highly regarded but not essential

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 LGBTIQA 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 27 March 2026. To make a confidential reasonable adjustment query, please contact Nadya Kartika from the Talent team at careers@powercor.com.au

Beon, CitiPower Powercor and United Energy recognise Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge their ancient and continuing connection to Country.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and supported to succeed. By making sure our workplace is physically and mentally safe, so that our people can be their authentic selves, share their unique perspectives and can thrive.