Primary/HV Substation Design Engineer

2 weeks ago

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Beca Corporate Holdings Limited, Full time

Our energy future is being transformed by technological innovations that will deliver more sustainable outcomes, bringing greater energy security and affordability to energy businesses and communities.

This role is to support the power team who work throughout New Zealand on iconic projects that are shaping the energy transition journey to net-zero carbon emissions. We deliver innovative technical solutions to our high voltage power generation, transmission, and distribution clients across New Zealand.

Te whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

With a strong pipeline of exciting projects, our team is growing. We are looking for an intermediate-level HV / Primary Electrical Engineer to continue to grow and shape the success of our Power team and bolster our technical capability to deliver high voltage substation designs to an enviable list of transmission and distribution clients. This opportunity will allow you to be involved in major energy transition projects in New Zealand and Australia alongside a high performing team.

This position can be based in our Wellington office.

This opportunity will allow you to realise your own potential and achieve a step-change in your career. You 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.

In this role, the key responsibilities include:

  • Design of high voltage substations and other related infrastructure (working with voltages from 3.3kV to 500kV
  • High voltage cable sizing calculations and reticulation
  • Work in collaboration with engineering and project teams to deliver timely and accurate documentation and reports
  • 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

Ko wai koe | About you

You are a confident and capable engineer and looking to grow your career in design and project management.

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 heavy industrial high voltage distribution
  • Have extensive experience within substation primary engineering position across HV 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 good interpersonal skills and manage stakeholder relationships
  • Strong communicator; able to explain complex issues to a range of stakeholders (internal and external)
  • Be results-oriented with good technical engineering basis in either heavy industrial transmission or distribution
  • Relevant tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering

A career with Beca will provide you with:

  • A supportive and caring work environment which values authenticity and belonging.
  • Support for learning and development; our people have equal opportunity to build careers reflecting their abilities, passions, and potential, where they feel they belong and can be their true and best selves.
  • Opportunity to be part of our professional services firm, contributing to the fabric of all communities across our regions.
  • Encouragement of balance in each aspect of your life flexibility, wellbeing, and personal development.
  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing support, including wellbeing leave, volunteer leave, gender affirmation support, flexible working arrangements and many more work perks.
  • Excellent benefits provided to all staff – including discounted health insurance, discounts on gym memberships, and a number of social club events.

Beca is one of Asia Pacific's largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family-owned business to one of the most progressive, client-centric professional services consultancies in our region. We have more than 4,000 employees in 24 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries.

'Creative people together transforming our world' is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations, and our purpose - to make everyday better. We create value through understanding and delivering successful solutions, exceptional service and our enduring relationships and use our skills and systems to empower innovation; helping our clients shape communities, optimise their assets and streamline their operations.

To learn more about our Power Business refer HERE .

Ready to make everyday better? Apply now.

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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