Senior Primary

2 weeks ago

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Beca Corporate Holdings Limited, Full time
Senior Primary / HV Substation Design Engineer

Senior Primary / HV Substation Design Engineer

  • Leading project delivery role as a Senior Primary / HV Substation Design Engineer role delivering conceptual and detailed designs for power transmission, distribution and renewable energy clients across New Zealand and Australia
  • Career development opportunities enabling you to broaden your project, technical, industry and engineering capability
  • Lead others within an industry-leading power engineering business in a collaborative team environment

The Opportunity

Lead and coach others in the design and delivery of Primary design packages for renewable energy, transmission and distribution clients across New Zealand and Australia. You will be problem solving and delivering solutions across a variety of client standards and requirements, building on your power systems engineering capability and applying your experience to solve complex client power system requirements. You will be working with an industry-leading and highly collaborative team utilising the latest in digital design technologies to deliver conceptual and detailed primary substation designs for a variety of clients.

With a strong pipeline of work our team is growing which has created the opportunity for a Senior High Voltage Substation Design (Primary) Engineer to join the business. You will be playing a key role to help design and deliver projects for our clients in multiple geographies.

You will be valued as a team member, with the opportunity to grow your career as well as being part of the success and future development of our Power team. You will be working in a high performing and collaborative team, based in Wellington, with the scope to work on both New Zealand and Australia domiciled projects.

Key tasks include:

  • HV electrical conceptual and detailed design for transmission and distribution clients using the latest digital design technologies
  • Lead teams of engineers to undertake packages of works, including training and mentoring junior staff
  • HV equipment specification, HV cable sizing, vendor drawing reviews, layout and elevation drawing production, Safety and Constructability reviews, basic earthing design
  • Accountability for financial and programme outcomes on projects and work packages you are leading
  • Developing your own technical expertise to support the delivery of high-quality technical advice to our client
  • Contribute and drive delivery excellence across the Power team including completing quality checks and procedures

About You

Your primary design engineering skills are based on solid fundamentals and have been proven through leading the delivery of robust and innovative primary engineering design solutions on projects. You will have experience delivering high voltage primary substation designs with the ability to leverage your experience and technical capability. You will be a problem-solving Senior Primary Engineer with 10+ years' experience delivering concept and detailed designs for renewable energy, transmission and distribution clients. You will be comfortable collaborating with and leveraging others technical knowledge, to deliver conceptual and detailed designs on projects of all sizes.

You will be motivated to learn and grow, learning from the best in the industry. You will enjoy working in dynamic and busy teams where you are known for your enthusiasm, energy, outcome focus and for your excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Previous experience of working in a team environment is a must for this role, along with the ability to manage and support multiple tasks.

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

  • Primary systems design – produce HV substation layouts, equipment/materials lists, clearance checks, thermal chain, and short circuit force calculations
  • Experience with Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Navisworks, AutoCAD and/or MicroStation a plus
  • Experience with switchgear specification and drawing review
  • HV cable sizing using CYMCAP and other specialist software
  • Have a good understanding of New Zealand and Australian HV Power design and regulations, policies and procedures and client standards
  • Understand the key technical aspects of projects, implementation, and integration for complex systems
  • Be organised, adaptable and able to think outside the box
  • Have good interpersonal skills and manage stakeholder relationships
  • Strong communicator who can 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

The Power Business

Our Power team operate throughout Australasia on high-voltage power transmission and distribution projects as well as infrastructure and industrial projects in Rail, Water and Airport markets. We've honed our skills over many years providing solutions to our power generation, transmission, and distribution clients across Australasia. To learn more about our Power business, refer to: .

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About us

Beca is one of Asia Pacific's largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies. We are an employee owned business with a team of 4000-plus people who brings a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

While our experience has been 100 years in the making, it's the fresh talent we're nurturing, the innovative thinking we're developing and the connections that we're forging that gets us most excited for the future. Learn more at

Beca has a commitment to sourcing high calibre candidates through proactive engagement with candidates who are interested in a rewarding career with Beca. We do not accept speculative or unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies.

We will only work with a recruitment agency which has been instructed by a member of Beca's Talent Acquisition team to procure a candidate.We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CV's are submitted to Beca or Beca employees by any means other than through our recruitment processes. Where this is not observed Beca reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any recruitment agency fee.

Beca does not accept any terms or conditions attached to or accompanying CVs.

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