Rate range: TBC

Project: BW Offshore

Contract duration: 12 months ongoing

Site conditions: Perth Office

Key Responsibilities

- Lead troubleshooting and root cause investigations for electrical system failures, equipment reliability issues, and operational incidents.

- Review event reports, alarms, operational data, and maintenance records to identify failure mechanisms and develop corrective actions.

- Support daily operations through close engagement with operations, maintenance, vendors, and other stakeholders.

- Develop and improve preventative maintenance strategies, procedures, and technical documentation.

- Manage and track punch-list items, ensuring issues are investigated, resolved, and closed out effectively.

- Provide technical leadership during equipment outages, commissioning activities, and fault investigations.

- Support development of scopes of work for third party contactors to undertake engineering and design services.

Required Experience And Skills

- Extensive experience with three-phase UPS systems, including Static Transfer Switch (STS) systems.

- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic capability, including the ability to analyse event logs, alarms, and operational data to determine root causes.

- Proven experience investigating and resolving dry-type transformer failures, including burnout and overheating issues.

- Experience identifying and resolving recurring equipment failures, such as beacons, instrumentation, and electrical component faults.

- Strong understanding of electrical equipment internals and hardware operation, with the ability to fault-find beyond drawing reviews and documentation.

- Experience with IT and TN-S earthing systems and associated electrical protection requirements.

- Robust knowledge of Gas Turbine Generators (GTGs),



including synchronization of generators to busbars and synchronization between generating units.

- Conversant with High Voltage Partial Discharge (HV PD) monitoring systems and interpretation of monitoring data.

- Thorough understanding of commissioning, testing, and inspection requirements for electrical equipment and power systems.

- Experience developing and implementing preventative maintenance procedures and reliability improvement programs.

- Ability to troubleshoot directly from electrical drawings, schematics, protection diagrams, and system documentation.

- Robust stakeholder management skills, with experience leading or participating in daily operational and coordination meetings.

- Review & approval of revised/new electrical deliverables produced by third parties.

Preferred Experience

- Experience in offshore, FPSO, oil & gas, power generation, or process facilities.

- Experience supporting brownfield operational facilities with critical electrical infrastructure.

- Knowledge of reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) principles and root cause analysis methodologies.

- Experience managing interfaces between operations, maintenance, engineering, and vendors during fault investigations and corrective action implementation.

Personal Attributes

- Highly analytical with a structured approach to problem solving.

- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify underlying causes rather than treating symptoms.

- Effective communicator capable of translating complex technical issues into practical solutions.

- Proactive and collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement and issue resolution.

- Comfortable working in operational environments where equipment reliability and plant availability are critical.

- Willingness to travel to Darwin regularly (monthly business trips).

- Willing and able to travel offshore (adhoc/infrequent trips).

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