Senior Secondary Design Engineer

About us

At CitiPower and Powercor, we’re proud to deliver electricity to 1.3 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

As a Senior Design Engineer (Secondary), you’ll play a key leadership role within our Network Services team, providing expert engineering guidance across the scoping, design, and estimation of substation projects for both internal and external clients.

You’ll lead the technical development of the Secondary Design team, driving excellence through the implementation of best-practice policies and procedures across distribution, sub-transmission, and transmission assets. Your contribution will be critical to the timely and successful delivery of projects, helping us meet key milestones and achieve strong financial outcomes for the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide effective specialist engineering design and advice in relation to the design of zone 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.

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 technical leadership capacity.

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

• A Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) or equivalent qualification
• Registration as a Professional Engineer with the Business Licensing Authority (BLA)
• Recognition as a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) or holding National Engineering Registration (NER)
• Accreditation as a Registered Professional Engineer of Victoria (RPEV)
• RPEQ (Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland) is highly regarded but not essential

Key Benefits

We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability. We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTQIA+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees. We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for all women. Click here for more information on how we create and support a diverse and equitable workplace.

Understand how our benefits can support you. We offer a health and wellbeing subsidy (up to $600 per year), paid parental leave of up to 15 weeks for the primary carer, and more.  

What’s next

Research shows that whilst men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised candidates tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet all criteria, please still get in touch. We’d love to have a chat and see if you could be a match.

Please submit your application via our careers’ website by 8 October 2025. For the full Position Description, please reach out to Nadya Kartika from the Talent team at careers@powercor.com.au 

We encourage applications from all communities; people of all ages, genders, nationalities, abilities and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQIA+ community and people living with disability. If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don’t hesitate to discuss these with us.

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.