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About the Role

The Central-West Orana project is currently seeking a dedicated Senior Electrical Engineer for a Design Manager role to share their expertise within our growing Energy Hubs (Substation) team. The role involves designing substation primary engineering for substations up to 500kV, ensuring compliance with standards and customer requirements. It includes optimizing designs considering constraints, performing detailed substation calculations, and ensuring clash-free layouts through coordination. Responsibilities also cover defining design subsystems for accurate costing, specifying high-voltage equipment, and interfacing with multiple disciplines while reviewing technical documents and system studies. The successful candidate will be based in Sydney and work out of the Sydney project office, Monday to Friday. As the project progresses, travel to site north of Mudgee in regional NSW may be required.

• The main function of the role is to design the substations for the Central West Orana ACJV project
• Identify all relevant standards and local Customer requirements, ensuring compliance with relevant National / International Standards and contract specifications
• Understand how the various considerations and constraints affect the design and develop different solutions as part of the design optimisation process
• Coordinate interference checker and its resolution - Ensure clash-free design based on the definition of clash checks defined by each discipline for internal review steps
• Prepare substation design calculations e.g. earthing design, busbar sizing, SC fault calculations, lightning protection, battery sizing, cable sizing, cable schedules, circuit breaker selection, bus, fittings, insulator, transformer sizing and arrector selection
• Define the primary design subsystems and bills of material to a level where the design can be accurately costed
• Ensure the designs are safe and adhere to the required electrical clearances while providing the necessary provisions for maintenance during the life of the installation
• Directly responsible for substation outdoor physical design for the general substation arrangement and layout, plan and elevation drawings, transformer/reactor yards design and layouts for high voltage bus, cable, high voltage equipment, conduit, cable, and wiring, grounding, and control buildings to satisfy the electrical transmission requirements
• Writing high voltage equipment specifications and issuance of material purchase request forms, and vendor technical evaluation for substation equipment including high voltage circuit breakers, switchgear, disconnects, Earth switches, HV & MV Power transformers, MV & LV cables, DC System, Harmonic Filters, Synchronous condensers, Shunt Reactors, Auxiliary transformers, RMU, Earthing materials etc
• Interface with other disciplines e.g. Civils, Protection, cables and OHL
• Review of Power system modelling, short circuit study, Load flow reports etc
• Scrutiny of various manufacturer technical documents/drawings/calculations and accord approvals from clients during detailed engineering phase

Criteria for Selection

• Bachelor's degree or higher in electrical engineering or a related field
• Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in outdoor and indoor substations, preferably 330kV or higher (ideally 500kV)
• Should have good knowledge of latest local standards & IEC/IEEE/ANSI standards
• Good knowledge and understanding of layout and primary equipment for substation projects up to 500kV
• Proficient with various software tools, such as AutoCAD, ETAP, etc
• Proficiency across various aspects of substation projects including design, engineering, construction, and testing & commissioning
• In-depth knowledge of Australian and international standards, codes, and regulations governing EHV substation projects
• Proficiency in relevant software tools such as Primavera, MS Office, with experience in SynCons considered advantageous

We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you believe you bring the capabilities to succeed in this role, we'd love to hear from you. We look forward to continuing to build our supportive workplace together.

Please note: This position is being delivered as part of a joint venture between two organisations. As such, your employment may be with either of the parent companies, and this will be confirmed during the recruitment process.

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