Protection & Control Engineer

4 days ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Vector NZ Full time

Protection & Control Engineer
- Full-time
- Engagement type: Permanent - Employee
- Department: Operations and Maintenance

**About Us**
If you love working with a diverse group of people who are all about putting the customer at the centre and enabling choice, you’ve found the right company. The energy sector is transforming at a rate of knots, and we want you to join us and be part of this transformation. Vector is a proudly Aotearoa-owned company, which operates a range of innovative businesses delivering energy and communication services to more than one million homes and commercial customers across Australasia and the Pacific. These services include electricity and gas connections, solar solutions, high speed fibre, BBQ gas bottles, air and water purification and much more - all of which are transforming the energy sector in one way or another.

Because we live in a world that is changing fast, we must continue to identify and develop better solutions that will provide value, choice and service for our customers throughout New Zealand and beyond, so the environment and communities we love continue to thrive. To do this, Vector has a vision of creating a new energy future, which will help to deliver clean, reliable and affordable energy solutions for customers.

**About the role**
The Protection & Control Engineer helps develop Vector’s electricity network protection systems, primarily for network expansion and upgrade projects. These protection systems are essential to the safe and reliable operation of the Auckland power system.

The role’s primary area of focus will be on our capital projects, with further responsibilities including assisting with fault investigations and responding to customer/stakeholder queries.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to gain exposure to a variety of projects on a scale you don’t find elsewhere, and could be the start of an exciting career with Vector with manifold opportunities for development and progression.

**Who we are looking for**
- Ideally you’ll have a bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Electrical Engineering or Electrical Power Systems Engineering, with experience in protection electric power systems
- A familiarity with SCADA and digital communication systems, as well as experience with configuration of Siemens and SEL numerical protection relays, would be an advantage
- Design experience is an added bonus.

**What we can offer you**
We love working together to create a new energy future. If you want to be part of an organisation with a real and tangible purpose, Vector could be the place for you.
We offer:

- A fun, flexible and stimulating work environment, full of interesting work being done by smart and innovative people
- Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times so you can balance work and life
- Health and wellbeing support
- Great benefits that reflect the importance of family

Vector engages a workforce made up of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race and religion. We are proud of what we have achieved so far:

- First corporate Living Wage Accredited employer
- First Accessibility Tick employer
- Rainbow Tick accredited
- Winner of three gongs at the 2019 Diversity Awards NZ, including the Supreme Award in 2019 and 2020.



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