Principal Power System Engineer

2 weeks ago


Christchurch, New Zealand Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Full time

**Your Impact**:
Jacobs Power Solutions team is at the forefront of the energy transition supporting our key clients (developers, tier one energy companies, utilities, and asset owners) in their pursuit to reduce carbon emissions and reach NetZero. The Power Solutions team partner with clients to aid their development, conduct feasibility studies, deliver detailed power system studies along with asset management and future network planning. We are working on some of the most iconic projects in Australia reshaping our energy system.

This team forms part of the broader APAC Energy & Power group offering complete solutions in the power industry including Transmission & Distribution, Power Generation, New Energy and Advisory and Project Solutions. The Group benefits from a broad range of international client relationships, long standing industry partnerships and an impressive management group, passionate about Jacobs offering to the market. We work closely with major companies in the energy industry, ensuring a rapid and smooth transition to a sustainable future.

**Here’s what you’ll need**:

- Provide support or in depth understanding in power systems, including power system planning studies for a range of renewable energy sources.
- Provide effective communication and collaboration, with the aptitude to support the technical direction of proposal development.
- Lead or support studies in one of the following power system software packages: PSCAD, PSS/E or PowerFactory. Ability to utilise Python will also be highly regarded. We will support training in the software packages required.
- Provide support in power system issues and power system planning studies and for a range of renewable energy sources.
- Offer technical guidance in Sales and proactively participate in Client engagement and business development opportunities.
- Support the Technical Director to shape the direction of the technical practice based on future focused insights, thought leadership and Jacobs’ vision.
- Effective communicator and collaborator, with the aptitude to articulate the technical direction of proposal development.
- Provide mentoring and development to less experienced engineers, contributing to Jacobs professional development framework.

**Jacobs. A world where you can.**

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We're the 2023 winners of the **Consult Australia People First Award** for our suite of employee benefits that support all our employees in all stages of their personal and professional lives.

For the 6th consecutive year, we've been named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia). In New Zealand, we're a founding member of The Diversity Agenda and are committed to making our industry more inclusive and diverse. In Australia, our Reconciliation journey continues to be a considerable focus across all levels of the Jacobs community as we progress our Innovate level Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

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We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we're inclusive, we're more connected, and if diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our eight global Jacobs employee networks centred on driving inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and our Women’s Network - find out more about our

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