Employer: Leading Electrical Engineering Firm

Reports to: Executive General Manager

Position Summary

This position is a senior leadership role with overall responsibility for the strategic direction, performance, governance, and growth of the Power Systems discipline across all projects and business units. This position provides executive-level oversight of power systems engineering activities, including renewable generation, battery energy storage systems, utility interfaces, and complex industrial power networks, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, client expectations, and industry best practice.

The position leads and drives the company's technical excellence, consistency, and capability development across the discipline. Reporting directly to executive management, this position champions a culture of safety, quality, and innovation, while ensuring that power systems engineering outcomes meet the highest technical, commercial, and regulatory standards. This role requires a strategic and commercially astute leader capable of translating business goals into scalable power systems engineering strategies and building a high-performing specialist team to support the company's long-term success.

Description of Responsibilities

Safety

- Champion a safety-first culture across all power systems engineering activities and project sites.
- Ensure compliance with company safety policies and statutory requirements, including ISO45001 (OHS) and ISO14001 (Environmental Management Systems).
- Provide leadership in identifying and mitigating safety risks associated with power systems design, construction, and commissioning.
- Lead by example in promoting safety, quality,



and environmental responsibility.
- Engage with senior management and technical leaders on safety-related matters.

Quality

- Ensure power systems engineering activities comply with relevant legislation, client specifications, and ISO9001 (Quality Management Systems) standards.
- Promote consistent application of the company's management system across the Power Systems discipline.
- Establish and maintain discipline-wide technical standards, methodologies, and review processes.
- Drive best-practice risk management and standardisation of power systems engineering deliverables.
- Oversee quality audits and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring audit findings and non-conformances are addressed promptly.

Project Planning and Coordination

- Provide strategic oversight of power systems engineering delivery across multiple projects and client portfolios.
- Support project teams in defining technical strategies, resourcing requirements, and delivery models for complex power systems scopes.
- Provide senior technical input into power systems design philosophies, functional requirements, and execution strategies.
- Oversee commissioning, start-up support, and client handover strategies for power systems projects.
- Represent the company as a senior technical authority in client meetings,



technical reviews, and negotiations.

Change Management

- Provide leadership and oversight for the management of significant technical changes within power systems projects.
- Ensure impacts of change on scope, cost, schedule, and risk are clearly assessed and communicated.
- Support consistent application of change management and technical governance processes across the discipline.

Verification

- Ensure appropriate verification and validation frameworks are applied to critical power systems studies and deliverables.
- Provide oversight to confirm designs and implementations meet functional, performance, and compliance requirements.
- Ensure accurate maintenance of audit records, as-built documentation, and technical registers.

Reporting

- Provide high-level reporting to the group on power systems performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Deliver executive summaries on project progress, system performance, and emerging technical issues.
- Ensure transparent, timely, and effective communication across all internal and external stakeholders.

Leadership

- Provide leadership and direction for all engineering.
- Lead, mentor, and develop team, supporting succession planning and capability growth.
- Set discipline-wide technical expectations, governance frameworks, and qualified standards.
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture focused on accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Represent the company at industry forums, client engagements, and business development activities as a senior power systems authority.

Operational Management

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📌 Group Manager (Western Australia)
🏢 The ICE Base
📍 Western Australia