About the role

Help us shape the nation. UGL Utilities team designs, constructs and maintains critical infrastructure across the power, water and renewable sectors. Ranging from HV Substations and Transmission Lines up to 500kV to power stations and wastewater treatment plants. We design and construct the following assets: substations, transmission lines, power generation, electrical distribution networks, water and wastewater treatment plants and water pipelines. The role offers flexibility to be based in Sydney or Brisbane, and is an chance to become a key member of the Power Utilities teams. You will be accountable for providing detailed designs, developing specifications and interfacing with management on design issues. This position will allow you to increase your design skills across the full lifecycle of development, design for construction, and to become highly skilled across multiple sectors.

Key responsibilities

- Plan and conduct professional engineering work on relevant aspects of EHV/HV Secondary Systems Strategic Planning and Conceptual Design (Protection, SCADA, Comms, Data Networks etc.).
- Provide detail design services on specialist engineering areas including but not limited to Protection Detailed Design (Protection Logic/Setting files, etc.), Primary Plant and Secondary Systems Equipment Specification and Procurement (CT, VT, CB, TFMR), Protection & Control Detail Schematics and Integration, Grid Metering, Power Quality and High Speed Monitoring Installations, Load flow, Fault level and dynamic studies and analysis, Engineering Network/Data Network Architecture and Configuration,



Control System Detailed Design and Configuration (EMS and Substation Automation), Communication Systems (including Data Network and Bearer Network systems design), General AC & DC System Specification and Distribution Design, Power Generation (including large scale Solar, Wind and Battery Energy Storage systems) detailed design and system integration.
- Provide technical support to the Business Development, Tendering and Operations as required.
- Assist with site commissioning.

About you

- Electrical Engineering Degree with 3 – 5 years’ experience in Design, integration & coordination, installation & commissioning of electrical systems and services for high voltage power systems.
- Understanding and knowledge of secondary system design from basic concept development through to detailed design, preferably in Design‑for‑Construction environment, utility‑based or engineering consultancy design experience.
- Proactively seek to continuously improve performance, deliverables and work efficiencies.

About UGL

As a member of the CIMIC Group of companies, we value diversity in our team’s backgrounds, ideas, work styles. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature‑aged workers and individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Benefits

- Benefit from 16 weeks of paid primary parental leave.
- Complimentary salary continuance insurance.
- Discounted Medibank health insurance.
- Shape your career with an Individual Development Plan.
- Participate in our Wellness Program with AIA Vitality.
- Access our OneRewards Discount Program.

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📌 Secondary Engineer (City of Sydney)
🏢 Ugl Pty
📍 City of Sydney