Job Description
Senior Protection Engineer at Enerven
Join Enerven as a Senior Protection Engineer, where you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality designs for HV/UHV substations and renewable energy systems.
Reporting to Protection & Secondary Engineering lead, you'll contribute technical leadership, mentorship and expertise across complex projects.
As the Senior Protection Engineer, you will provide technical support and guidance to team members, act as a technical authority of protection designs whilst playing a key role in the successful delivery of designs across the project portfolio.
You will support the Protection Team Lead and contribute expert knowledge across all Protection-related deliverables.
Day to day you will
Provide technical authority, guidance and mentoring to the Protection engineers within the discipline
Support the development and improvement of engineering processes, procedures and templates
Support the business development team with conceptual designs, estimates and proposals for complex projects
Collaborate closely with engineers, designers and design managers to ensure efficient and high-quality project outcomes
Providing technical engineering advice, you will make sound decisions based on technical, commercial, and contractual requirements and work with internal and external stakeholders
Lead, Mentor and develop other protection engineers/ graduate engineers and undergraduate engineers
Produce engineering deliverables, develop & maintain Technical Authority/ expertise of the protection documents including:
Protection Single Line Diagrams and Block Logics
Protection philosophy
Protection setting calculation
Relay setting and configuration




Modelling and networks assessment, fault analysis and load flow study
Ensure compliance of design with relevant design standards, regulations & Australian Standards
About you
You will be required to have detailed knowledge of protection design, familiar with protection schemes, substation and renewables engineering principles, knowledge in HV and UHV transmission protection design and power engineering fundamentals.
You also need to be competent with technical management skills in leading, structuring and delivering processes, procedures and templates along with estimating skills for engineering.
What you will need
University degree in Electrical Engineering
Registered with Engineers Australia - desirable
Project and Design Leadership / Management experience
Experience carrying out designs for major transmission utilities (particularly with Transgrid)
About us
The work behind the network: When you join Enerven, you are working for a team guided by its core values of dependability, proactiveness and collaboration.
A skilled and diverse workforce: Our broad industry skillset enables us to meet complex challenges with agility and expertise.
Our team is at the forefront of change - building a more sustainable future by connecting Australia with tomorrow.
Outstanding culture of safety and well-being:



Health, safety and well-being form the foundations of our operations, and we have an unwavering commitment to the safety and wellbeing of our people, our customers and the community we serve.
Flexible work options and employee benefit programs
Flexi-time accrual
17.5% leave loading on annual leave
13% superannuation
Up to $900 in electricity reimbursement each year
Automatic coverage from our income protection scheme
18 weeks paid primary carers parental leave
Ability to purchase extra annual leave of up to 20 days
Salary sacrifices towards novated lease vehicle
Corporate discount towards health insurance and gym memberships
Leadership and career development opportunities
An inclusive and equal opportunity organisation
We value and respect the unique backgrounds and experiences of our employees, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
As members of the Diversity Council Australia, our employees can receive full access to research, events and expertise on all aspects of diversity and inclusion.
Given safety is at the forefront of everything we do, candidates will undergo comprehensive pre-employment screening, including a medical and a police check.
Don't let this opportunity pass you by.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full time
Job function
Engineering and Distribution
Industries
Engineering Services, Renewable Energy Power Generation, and Construction
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📌 Senior Protection Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Enerven
📍 New South Wales