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Jacobs is seeking a Senior Associate Secondary Engineer to join our Melbourne or Sydney High Voltage Substations team, providing specialist secondary and protection engineering consulting services while leading and developing our Secondary and Protection capability across the APAC region.

As Team Lead, you will work closely with the APAC Section Lead – Substations to provide technical leadership, people leadership and pastoral care to the Secondary and Protection team. You'll oversee the delivery of complex high‑voltage substation projects ranging from 132 kV up to 500 kV, supporting the design, coordination, and successful delivery of safe, reliable, and sustainable power infrastructure.

In this role, you’ll combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership, influencing project outcomes, developing people, and collaborating with project, commercial, and technical leaders locally and globally. While advanced protection engineering experience is highly valued, we also welcome candidates with a strong secondary engineering background who are keen to continue expanding their protection capability.

Key Areas of Focus

- Provide daily people leadership for the Secondary and Protection team, including coaching, career development, resource planning, workload management and supporting team wellbeing.
- Lead concept, tender,



and detailed engineering for secondary, protection, and control systems across transmission and distribution projects.
- Collaborate within multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams to deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget.
- Provide technical input alongside high‑level review and assurance of engineering outputs including protection, metering, and control schemes; electrical single line diagrams; relay coordination studies and short circuit analyses; protection settings, logic configurations, and interlocking/inter‑tripping schemes; IEC 61850 substation communication systems.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor on complex projects, working closely with Design Managers and Project Managers.
- Contribute to client engagement and relationship development.
- Provide oversight and support across bid preparation, service estimates, and method statements.

Here’s what you’ll need

- Demonstrated people‑management experience, or the ability to clearly show leadership capability within a geographically diverse, matrix environment.
- Extensive experience delivering secondary systems engineering for high‑voltage transmission and distribution substations.
- Advanced capability in IEC 61850 system architecture and implementation.




- Highly developed problem‑solving skills with the ability to lead and manage complex technical design challenges.
- Clear, confident, and professional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent working knowledge of industry standards and regulatory frameworks (e.g. National Electricity Rules, AEMO Guidelines).

Advantages

Our meticulously curated employee benefits support all employees throughout every stage of life. From paid parental leave to a lifetime financial allowance for you and your partner to access family‑forming Fertility & IVF treatment, adoption and surrogacy assistance along with menopause and low‑T treatment.

We are steadfast in our commitment to the wellbeing of you and your loved ones with a comprehensive suite of wellbeing resources supporting you physically, emotionally and financially. This is demonstrated in our company being recognised by WGEA for 12 consecutive years as an employer of choice for gender equality along with our industry‑leading GOLD employer status by the Australian Workplace Equality Index.

Cultural Support

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Jacobs aims to provide cultural safety at our interviews. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are invited to nominate a cultural representative to participate on the interview panel; please let your recruiter know in your application. No matter what drives you, you'll discover a way to cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.

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📌 Senior Associate Secondary Engineer (North Sydney Council)
🏢 Jacobs
📍 North Sydney Council