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Lead Planning Engineer – Permanent Full Time – Perth CBD

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Western Australia is undergoing one of the most significant energy transformations in its history. As large-scale renewables, electrification and major customer decarbonisation projects reshape the grid, critical decisions are being made about how the network evolves to support future generations.

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We're looking for a Lead Planning Engineer to provide technical leadership across complex planning initiatives that influence network development, investment decisions, and the long-term capability of Western Australia's electricity system.

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Working at the intersection of future network planning, major customer growth, and energy transition projects, you'll help shape the decisions that determine how the network evolves over the coming decades.

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Your Role in Action

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This is a technical leadership role focused on solving complex planning challenges, influencing strategic network decisions, and developing engineering capability across the business.

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You'll provide specialist expertise across transmission planning activities while helping shape the standards, methodologies and frameworks that guide future network development.

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- Lead complex network planning assessments and power system studies to support investment decisions, reliability outcomes and future network capability.
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- Provide technical leadership within multidisciplinary planning teams, contributing to option development, scope definition and long-term network strategies.
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- Evaluate planning solutions through detailed technical analysis, including risk assessments, steady-state, RMS and EMT studies.
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- Support major grid transformation, decarbonisation and customer connection initiatives by providing expert planning advice and recommendations.
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- Develop and enhance technical criteria, planning methodologies and engineering frameworks that support consistent and efficient network planning outcomes and decision making.
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- Contribute to the development of engineering standards and technical specifications that influence internal and external engineering practices.
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- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to solve complex network challenges.
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- Mentor and develop planning engineers and graduates, building technical capability across the engineering function.
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What Makes You a Great Fit

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- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related engineering discipline.
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- Eligible for CPEng/NPER registration, or progressing toward accreditation.
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- Extensive experience in electricity network planning and power systems analysis.
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- Experience undertaking power system studies, including load flow, fault level, voltage stability and network constraint analysis using PowerFactory.
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- Demonstrated ability to develop practical, cost-effective network and non-network solutions.
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- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers and influencing complex stakeholder decisions.
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- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate technical analysis into clear recommendations.
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By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance,



empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:

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- Work in a team responsible for some of Western Australia's most complex network planning challenges.
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- Combine technical expertise with leadership, influencing both engineering outcomes and team capability.
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- Collaborate across transmission, distribution and major customer connection projects that support WA's energy transition.
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- Drive planning decisions that shape future investment, network performance and customer outcomes.
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- Play a key role in developing engineering talent while maintaining exposure to complex technical work and strategic initiatives.
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Alongside this, you'll be supported with:

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- Clear leadership and technical career pathways, with opportunities to progress into Principal, specialist and leadership roles.
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- Adaptable work arrangements, including hybrid working and adaptable hours.
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- The option to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave each year.
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- Three additional wellness days annually, on top of standard leave.
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- Access to salary packaging, discounted health insurance and wellbeing initiatives.
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- A strong internal mobility culture, with significant opportunities for career progression across the business.
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Applications close on 6 October 2026.

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We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180 -endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.

📌 Lead Planning Engineer (Perth)
🏢 Western Power
📍 Perth